The Social Hub: Evaluating the Impact of a Cross-European Portfolio of Mixed-Use Hotels

The Social Hub (TSH) brand provides hotels, student accommodation and co-working spaces, creating a more connected community. Adding to 21 locations around Europe, TSH wants to improve its social, economic and environmental performance across Europe and has developed plans to upgrade and expand its sites.

To support the assessment of current sites and future plans, TSH contacted RealWorth to demonstrate the social value of different sites across Europe, RealWorth measured and analysed the social change caused by projects and programmes using Social Return On Investment (SROI).

This analysis assisted the TSH sites in demonstrating the benefits of existing sites to its stakeholders and host cities by creating a range of social impact activities. The analysis indicated that the planned improvements could enhance the social value that these locations have brought to their surrounding areas. To date, RealWorth have worked with TSH across multiple sites in Spain, the Netherlands and Scotland.

KERB: Assessing the Social Value of KERBs Unique Approach to Food Markets

KERB is a membership-led street food organisation that supports independent food entrepreneurs through markets, food halls and events. Since its founding in 2012, KERB has grown from a collective of London street traders into an established market operator, while maintaining a strong focus on supporting small businesses and widening access to opportunities in the food industry.

Over a 12-month period from April 2025, KERB supported participants from underrepresented backgrounds into employment, trading and placements through a set of thoughtfully designed employment and skills programmes. KERB knew that this work had a positive social impact on its network and to better understand and evidence this wider impact, commissioned RealWorth to assess the social value created through its trading activities, membership model and KERB+ programmes using Social Return on Investment (SROI).

Our findings demonstrate the social value generated by KERB over a 12-month period and highlighted the role the organisation plays in supporting entrepreneurs, building skills and creating inclusive opportunities across its network. Going forward, our report will support KERB to develop and expand its programme and social impact strategy, informing key decisions and obtaining additional funding to expand its reach and deepen its impact.

a-r-c-s: Evaluating the Impact of Socially Conscious Retail in Coal Drops Yard

In 2024, a-r-c-s commissioned RealWorth to evaluate the social impact of its activities over a 12-month period using the Social Return on Investment approach. The study assessed how a-r-c-s distinctive model – flexible turnover-based rents, community driven programming, and free event space – supports inclusive growth and cultural participation in King’s Cross.

Integrate Space: Creating a Social Impact Framework

Integrate Space is a facilitator between the real estate sector and the third sector. Integrate works with real estate owners to make their vacant or under-used spaces in prime commercial buildings available to charities on a temporary basis.

Integrate asked RealWorth to create a Social Impact Framework for them that will help to guide their approach to the delivery, monitoring, collation, analysis and reporting of social impact. The Framework covers multiple themes, question sets and broader considerations that can be templated and applied to all future charity occupation projects.

The Framework also includes a guidance document for Integrate to hand to each charity it partners with to help them track their impact, as well as a reporting template it can hand to each landlord it works with to help them capture and report on the social impact created.