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SROI Report 2024

SROI (Social Return on Investment) report with NUIG and UNESCO

 

( 2020-2023): Three Year Research Project with NUIG Galway yielded excellent results:

 

The DCU CSN engaged with the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre in Galway in the SROI process:

 

Report of findings:

 

Outcomes most valued by participants

 

 

As a result of being involved in the DCU Changemaker Network, the most valued outcomes achieved by children, teachers and school leaders as a result were an:

  • Increase in their level of empathy
  • Increase in their feeling of social inclusion
  • Increase in active citizenship / civic engagement
  • Increase in feeling of responsibility
  • Increase in their sense of pride
  • Increase in their self-confidence
  • Increase in their sense of achievement

 

Total Social value and Return-on-Investment Ratio

 

 

  • We found that the total social value generated for project participants was €5.1m with a total cost of €302,000 over three years.

 

  • The social return-on-investment ratio is, therefore, 1:17. This means that for every euro of investment in the DCU Changemaker Network, there was €17 of social value created for participants.

 

May 2024

Social Return on Investment (SROI)