Join us later this month for an in-person event where we’ll hear from three social impact practitioners. They’ll share their different journeys supporting organisations to achieve meaningful change.

When: Friday 21 June  2024, 17:30-19:30

Where: Type 1 Diabetes Family Centre, 11 Limosa Close, Stirling WA 6021

Tickets: Free for SIMNA members. $20 for non-members. Get your tickets here!

Drinks and nibbles will be provided!

Event overview

The pace of change in the social value arena is quickening. Society’s demands for accountability to our broader impact on our environment, sustainability, and communities are increasing rapidly.

With this increased demand to understand and take accountability for social value comes an increasingly crowded and confusing social value marketplace. New methodologies, measurements, frameworks, standards and “the best way of doing things” seem to pop up every day.

But the reality is that social value is a deliberately broad concept, impacting and involving every sector of society. It demands that we bring together audiences and participants as wide as investors, policy makers, evaluators, measurement professionals, managers, accountants and so many more to optimise our positive impact on society.

There is no one place to start, there is no one way to do things. Social value measurement is a journey underpinned by the Principles of Social Value but applicable to any organisation, at any point in their journey.

With such diversity in opinions and approaches, it is vital that we spur the connections, the conversations, and the action necessary to propel social change. And that we learn from each other and the journeys we are all on to account for social value.

If you are at all interested in social value, whether you are an investor, practitioner, evaluator, policy maker, manager or other interested party, it’s time to connect.

Come and hear from three social impact practitioners from three different sectors, discuss their journeys in accounting for social value.

Then join us for facilitated conversations as we grapple with the real challenges facing organisations and individuals navigating the social value space in WA.

Benjamin Jardine

Benjamin is the Chief Executive Officer of the Type 1 Diabetes Family Centre, a world-first community-based support service for people living with the world’s most complex self-managed condition. A Speech Pathologist by training, Benjamin has worked both at the frontline of healthcare and in major transformation roles, helping to shape the future of health and social services across Australia. He has held transformation and growth roles with some of WA’s most iconic social services including Silver Chain Group, Ability WA and Activ Foundation.

Benjamin has a long-held commitment to the pursuit of social value and is a founding member and Director of SIMNA as well as a Trustee of Social Value International. He holds a Master of Business Administration with Distinction from UWA, is an Associate Fellow of the Australasian College of Health Service Management, a fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and a Tracey Horton Scholar.

Carina Whittington

Carina is a community infrastructure specialist with more than 20 years of project delivery experience in both regional and metropolitan local government areas. With a passion for the intersect between social impact and the built environment, Carina’s areas of expertise include integrating planning for social impact within project management frameworks and is currently working on optimising and aligning impact with long-term capital programs.  

Carina is currently the Community Infrastructure Planning Coordinator at the City of Armadale and volunteers as the Leisure and Recreation Planning Network Lead on the board of Parks and Leisure WA. While currently on extended leave, Carina is taking the opportunity as a 2024 Social Impact Hub Fellow and has commenced post graduate Social Impact studies with the Centre for Social Impact at UNSW.

Ric Dale

Ric has worked in the human services sector for over 35 years, supporting people through emergency relief, family support, youth, homelessness, childcare, mental health and disability services. He has worked in service delivery, management and support roles in Victoria, Pakistan, and Western Australia. A commitment to evidence-informed practice and continually improving performance led Ric into the practice of accounting for social value.

Ric currently works part time at Outcare in Perth as the Manager of Social Impact and Projects and consults in social impact measurement, specialising in supporting organisations to develop their own expertise in monitoring, evaluation, and learning.

Ric is a member of the SIMNA WA Organising Committee, a committee member of The Well of Life Vision (WA) Inc. (a small WA charity that supports widows and young people in Telangana, India), and a member of the Huber Social Ethical Review Board.