Offploy supports people with barriers to work (especially those with experience of the justice system). They are working to make the world a safer place by supporting people at risk of offending, empowering them to access greater opportunities and achieve their full potential.
Bean has been working with Offploy since 2022 to embed social impact in its assessment. Offploy set out to understand how the organisation measures and reports the difference it makes through its work supporting candidates and ultimately capture the impact of its vision. This approach was developed through desk research, consultations and workshops with Offploy’s Colleagues and Candidates. It helped identify that Offploy supports Candidates across the Seven Pathways of Reducing Reoffending and that basing evidence of outcomes across these, supports the fundamental objective of a world safe from crime through addressing the underlying causes of convictions. Bean brought these elements together to create the following Theory of Change for Offploy. The framework is built around three main themes: Knowledge, Health & Wellbeing, and Progression, and identifies the changes Offploy wants to affect through the programme, activities and the outcomes they are committed to capturing in future years.
As part of this journey, Offploy has updated its systems to ensure that future tracking of social value is hard-wired into the organisation, and the insights gained so far are being fed into Offploy’s future strategy. Ultimately, by striving to capture the difference that Offploy has made over the last year, the aim is to share the learnings with the sector to help others support those at risk of and with experience of the criminal justice system.
In 2023, Offploy supported 853 Candidates, with 805 Candidates receiving at least Foundation support and 499 Candidates receiving Enhanced support. Since its inception in 2016, Offploy has supported 2,054 people to Foundation stage, with 1,299 people through Enhanced support. It is among these 805 Candidates that our social impact report focuses, with both qualitative and quantitative research conducted as well as a thorough, assured social value calculation undertaken, using the Social Value International (SVI) Principles as a guide to make decisions and take into account the broader definition of value.
Having developed an impact framework and embedding key indicators across its management approach, we collected insights throughout 2023, enabling us to do a detailed social impact report, including a Social Return on Investment analysis, being assured by Social Value Institute in 2024.
In total, the social value assessment, taking into account Offploy’s contribution and the duration of any outcomes, shows that the total value created through Offploy’s activity over 2023 is just over £7 million over two years. This means that for every £1 invested in Offploy’s services, the Social Return on Investment (SROl) is £12.09.
The social value analysis indicates that the biggest contribution to social value comes from the positive mindset of Candidates who work with Offploy. This improvement in mindset is reflected in increased wellbeing scores, which account for 37% of the overall social value. Offploy has been able to track better the impact resulting from their work and expand their offerings in this area.
“Bean has been instrumental in designing and developing our social impact framework and methodology. This has allowed us to accurately measure the impact of our service delivery, and we were thrilled with the results. They also guided us on which metrics to track and how to do so, which will be invaluable for future reporting. We found Bean to be exceptionally knowledgeable, friendly, and caring. Bean clearly understood our organisation, presented challenges we hadn’t thought about, and worked to help us produce our Social impact report which was of the highest quality. Thank you!”
Jacob Hill, Director, Offploy
