Our services

How we can help

With all our services, we act as your guide on the side (not a sage on the stage), partnering with you to Frame, Evaluate and Grow your organisation’s social value, whether you’re a charity, funder, or company – large 
or small.

Our services stand alone and work seamlessly together, depending on your needs. We work with clients in lots of different ways, including bespoke workshops and in-depth consultations with staff, trustees, and service users. Each framework, evaluation, and report we produce is evidence-led, so we look outside of your organisation to seek out relevant evidence too.

Partnering with you to Frame, Evaluate and Grow your organisation’s social value

Structure your approach

Frame

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  1. Theory of change and impact Frameworks

    We build accessible, usable theory of change and impact Frameworks, underpinned by clear and measurable outcomes, to bring structure to your evaluation and reporting. 

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  2. Measurement toolkits 

    We bring your vision to life by integrating evaluation practices, guiding impact assessment, selecting metrics, and working with you on the best ways to collect this data. We can also help you effectively analyse information to support your decision-making. 

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  3. Social value mapping

    Acting as a bridge between ESG and commercial teams – with a focus on local change and ensuring compliant delivery – we develop an organisation-wide approach to understanding and building your social value, with measurement at its heart. Using nationally recognised Frameworks, like HACT and TOMS, we support you to maximise social value opportunities.

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Understand your value

Evaluate

  1. Best-practice evaluation

    We carry out literature reviews and conduct process, summative, and formative evaluations using a mixed-methods approach. We care deeply about data and the stories behind the numbers.

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  2. Social impact measurement

    As one of our most requested services, our in-depth impact evaluation assesses your project’s positive and negative effects on people, organisations, and communities.

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  3. Social return on investment

    We assess the value of interventions using SROI (we’re accredited & advanced practitioners) or cost benefit analysis so you can understand the impact of your investment.

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Prove and improve your impact

Grow

  1. Learning partner

    We work hand-in-hand with your team to manage and interpret research and impact assessments, offering guidance and training, whether you want to get a project off the ground or need ongoing support.

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  2. Reporting

    We help you tell the story of what you’ve achieved, whether that’s reporting on changes in knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours or your commercial social value commitments. And we tailor everything we create to suit your organisation.

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  3. Data dashboards

    Explore and analyse your data in real-time, with the help of interactive, customisable Power BI dashboards. Map against open-source, IMD, or FSM data and drill down to get the detail you need.

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What clients say about Bean

“We found Bean to be exceptionally knowledgeable, friendly, and caring. They clearly understood our organisation, presented challenges we hadn’t thought about, and worked to help us develop our social impact Framework and methodology. Thank you!”

Jacob Hill,
Director at Offploy

“Thank you for everything. We are very happy with the new perspectives the review has given us and the clarity around the change we want to see and how we will evaluate that. Simply fantastic!”

Tara Leathers,
CEO at Prudence Trust

“Bean Research hold an excellent understanding of the latest trends and methodologies and an ability to deploy these sensitively and pragmatically, taking in to account the resources and peculiarities of the clients and partners with which they are working.”

Jonathan Freeman MBE,
CEO at Charity for Civil Servants

“Charlotte and the team delivered a valuable and thoughtful piece of work for us. Their short summary presentation has made so many things clear to us in how we solve business challenges and create social value.”

Tamera Campbell,
Chief People Officer at Nando’s UK & Ireland

“Bean have taken the time to really understand the Foundation, and the business, and how we want to progress our funding. Their strategic approach and learnings have really helped us focus, refine our strategy, and support grantees to share their insights”

Catherine Ind,
Head at St. James’s Place Charitable Foundation

Get ready to grow

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