“Women in the poorest areas live over 8 years less than women in the richest areas.”
— The Renewed Women’s Health Strategy for England, April 2026
At The Women’s Organisation, we are committed to understanding and strengthening the difference we make. As a social enterprise and charity, we focus on the impact of our work on individuals, communities, the environment, and the way we use our resources our overall social impact, including contributions to health and wellbeing.
What We Do
We create social value by supporting women’s economic participation, wellbeing, and leadership, while contributing to stronger, more inclusive communities. Our work is designed not only to deliver services, but to generate wider social, economic, environmental and wellbeing benefits.
We ensure that public and philanthropic investment in our programmes delivers meaningful and measurable outcomes going beyond outputs to demonstrate lasting change.
How We Do It: Our Innovative SocialScore Approach
We use the SocialScore framework as an innovative and robust way to measure, manage, and improve our impact.
This approach enables us to:
- Assess our full social impact – across people, communities, the environment, and organisational practice
- Capture and evidence social value creation in a consistent, transparent, and impartial way
- Include measures of wellbeing as part of our overall impact assessment
- Strengthen accountability to our stakeholders, including funders, partners, and beneficiaries
- Drive continuous improvement through insight-led planning and action
Through SocialScore, we move beyond traditional monitoring and evaluation to a more holistic model of social accounting and audit. This allows us to systematically track our social, environmental, economic and wellbeing contributions, report on performance, and identify opportunities to enhance our impact.
Embedding Social Value in Practice
Our approach aligns with the principles of the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012, which emphasises the importance of achieving wider community benefit through the use of public funds.
In practice, this means we:
- Demonstrate how our work delivers additional social value beyond core service delivery
- Support public sector partners to achieve maximum social impact through commissioning and procurement
- Prioritise innovation, quality, and best value in everything we do
- Contribute to broader social, economic, environmental and wellbeing outcomes
By embedding social value into our strategy and operations, we not only prove the value of our work – we actively enhance it.