Deliver insightful research
We deliver inclusive, accessible, workable evidence, which is essential to demonstrate impact and understand how to improve it.
About Bean
When it comes to understanding and growing your social value, we’ve Bean there, done that, and had an impact.
Find out more about our experienced team, our inclusive approach, and the credentials behind our confidence.
Bean’s value-driven approach
Across all our work with charities, funders, and companies, we've got three big aims:
Increase your ability to create social change
We help you develop in-house approaches, policies, and capabilities to facilitate real change, now and in the future.
Advocate, teach, and share best practice
We are passionate about social value and spend time sharing ways people can understand, evaluate, and report on social change.
The Bean team
We're a small team with a global reach - our heritage and experience spans the globe.
Charlotte Turner
Director
Charlotte is a researcher with 30 years of experience in this space, a regular speaker and adviser on social impact and value, the Founder & Director of Bean Research, the Social Impact Assessment lead at Cranfield School of Management and an Advanced Social Value Practitioner.
Bethan Lloyd
Senior Research Manager
Bethan brings expertise in social value, SROI and sustainable strategy, with experience across justice, defence, health and education. She is a Level 1 Accredited Social Value Practitioner and Head of Create for Young Professionals in Social Value, combining analytical rigour with a collaborative, practical approach. dedicated to advancing impactful, community-focused solutions.
Cath Weight
Associate Director, Evaluation & Learning
Cath Weight has worked with Bean Research since 2019. She has 20 years of experience immersed in the development and execution of consumer and business intelligence, both agency and client side. Cath provides the backbone of our work with funders – supporting foundations to understand how they can fund and support greater social change.
Naomi Stoll
Evaluation and Learning Manager
Naomi is a research and evaluation specialist with over 16 years’ experience supporting learning across public sector organisations, charities and funders in the UK and internationally. She enjoys working closely with clients and generating insights that inform design and strengthen programmes.
Emily Grant – JOINING SOON!
Associate Director
Emily has over ten years’ experience leading research, evaluation, and learning programmes for charities, governments, foundations, and international organisations. Her career has included a focus on sensitive research topics, including violence against women and girls (VAWG), countering violent extremism (CVE), gender equality and social inclusion (GESI), and countering mis- and disinformation.
Betty Welch – JOINING SOON!
Evaluation and Learning Manager
Betty has a background in monitoring, mixed methods evaluation, learning and grant management. She previously led MEL across the Elton John AIDS Foundation’s small grants portfolio, focused on supporting sex workers through funding for community-led initiatives, and co-managed larger projects across Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, the UK and the US.
Inclusive in every way
Inclusivity isn’t a buzzword for Bean – it’s a core principle that we hang our hats on.
Co-produced, equitable research
We go the extra mile to conduct robust research and always stick to the government’s inclusive social research guidelines. That means understanding barriers and enablers, particularly when it comes to marginalised communities. We also:
- Work with our clients to ensure materials are accessible to their audiences.
- Are mindful of power dynamics in evaluation & funding and seek equity of voice.
- Set and stick to clear interview and survey expectations.
- Co-produce Frameworks & Share findings with participants ahead of any ‘release’.
- Use Plain English in our reports and avoid stereotypes.
- Use neurodiversity-friendly typefaces and incorporate text-to-speech.
- Undertake unconscious bias training to keep our language and personal biases in check.
Responsible business practices
We take our business responsibilities seriously, striving to have a positive impact just like our clients. Social Impact is embedded in our Articles of Association. Here are the organisations Bean is part of and the standards we aim to meet:
We’re organisational members and partners of Institute of Social Value – Britain’s professional body for social value and impact management.
We are all members of the Market Research Society, demonstrating our commitment to generating high-quality evidence and the insight that comes from it.
We’re members and partners of Anthropy, an organisation that empowers leaders to shape Britain’s future.
We are a Disability Confident Committed employer. We support accessibility for employees, clients and their service users in every way. We also support Dyslexic Thinking.
We’re signatories of the Better Business Act, the Mental Health at Work commitment and are a Living Wage Employer.
We have always striven to have high standards of social & environmental performance and are now a certified B Corporation.
