Let's Talk Social Value

About Let's Talk Social Value

If you want to know what’s happening in social value and understand what good looks like, Then this podcast is for you. It can be hard to keep up to date with the amount of information; it is also time-consuming to read more and more content. Join Sarah Stone, Founder and Director of Samtaler, a social value agency based in the UK. Sarah is a renowned social value expert and works with complex organisations to deliver social value training and consultancy support. Each month we will bring you a host of experts from the private, public and third sectors, all doing amazing things to create social value. We will hear about their work and explore a range of topics from; public sector procurement and supply chain diversity to impact measurement. So join us and learn what social value is and how to create it.

Publisher

Samtaler

Category

business · education · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Feb 2022

Latest episode

21 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 35 episodes have a transcript.

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   21 Jul 2026

   Emma Harris, Boards For Education

   In this Bitesize episode of Let's Talk Social Value, our Partnerships Consultant Michaela is joined by Emma Harris, Head of Partnerships and Programmes at Boards for Education (formerly Governors for Schools), to explore the impact of governance volunteering and how organisations can create lasting social value through skilled volunteering. We hope you enjoy this episode. If you have a topic you'd like us to discuss or you would like to be considered as a guest please get in touch at hello@sa...

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   5 Jun 2026

   Ben Carpenter, Social Value International

   In this episode of Let’s Talk Social Value, Sarah Stone is joined by Ben Carpenter, CEO of Social Value International (SVI), the global member-led network with a mission to change how the world accounts for value. Together they explore how the social value movement is evolving worldwide - beyond procurement and compliance - towards systems change that helps organisations measure what really matters for people and planet. We hope you enjoy this episode. If you have a topic you'd like us ...

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   12 May 2026

   Emma Jones, Small Business Commissioner

   In this episode of Let’s Talk Social Value, Sarah Stone is joined by Emma Jones, the UK’s Small Business Commissioner, to explore the real impact of late payment on SMEs - and what’s changing. Explore how late payment impacts SMEs and supply chains, upcoming legislation, 60-day payment terms, and why prompt payment is critical to delivering real social value. We hope you enjoy this episode. If you have a topic you'd like us to discuss or you would like to be considered as a guest please get ...

Inside a recent episode

Susan McPherson, McPherson Strategies

Published 24 Aug 2023 · Transcript excerpt

[…] That's what I say to people as well it's like you can't create a reputation by talking about it you build a reputation by doing a thousand percent and the consuming audience now is far more sophisticated than they were 20 years ago and they'll figure it out very very quickly. Yeah and then there'll be much worse for you than if you hadn't if tried to do it in the first place. I think a lot of people don't realize as well if you actually do the do and don't properly you don't need to talk about it because other people will do the talking for you. […]

Who has been a guest on Let's Talk Social Value

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• Angela Halliday
• Angela Benson
• Catherine Manning
• Lindsay Maguire
• Holly Onstenk

Podcast Authority Score: 29 / 100

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30

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YouTube

0

Engagement

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