Report Assurance
Demonstrate high-quality Social Value & SROI reporting with independent, principles-based assurance
What is Report Assurance?
Report assurance is an independent review of your SROI or social impact report to confirm that it meets the Principles of Social Value and aligns with recognised best practice. It ensures your report applies good practice, giving stakeholders confidence in the decisions informed by your findings. The process is guided by the SVI Report Assurance Standard, which sets out what good practice looks like for social impact reporting.
Want to know how to produce SROI & Social Impact reports?
Take an accredited training course and learn everything you need to know to be able to produce your own report.
Want assistance in producing an SROI & Social Impact report?
SVI has a host of accredited professionals who can support you to produce your own social impact report.
Want to find out more about how Report Assurance works?
See the pre-application checklist and supporting documents below.
Reports Database
Looking for examples of assured reports?
SVI hosts a free Reports Database, which hosts hundreds of examples of SROI and social value reports. Many of these have been through the Report Assurance process, identifiable by their Assurance Certificate.
All authors of assured reports have the option to share their report on the database as a public good. However, this is not mandatory as we understand that some reports are intended for internal decision-making only.
The benefits of SVI Report Assurance
How it works
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Use the Report Assurance Standard as a checklist as you conduct you SROI or social impact analysis.
Prepare Supporting Documents (Word report, Excel value map, signed T&Cs) for upload.
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We only accept applications for Report Assurance during certain date ranges. Check the Assurance Application Calendar to identify the next suitable date range to make your application.
We also offer a Fast Track service for those looking to get a report assured without having to wait for an application round to open.
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Standard application: £1,350.00 - make an application during one of several application rounds held each year.
Fast Track: £1,650.00 - apply any time, no need to wait for an application round.
View our full Report Assurance Price List 2026. All prices are subject to annual increases.
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Your report will undergo an initial review by SVI's Assurance Team before being shared with an external assessor for a full review.Following the review, feedback will be shared with one of the four possible classifications:
Report Assured
Report does not meet the assurance criteria, but can do with changes made within an amendment period
Report does not meet the assurance standard and will require resubmission after substantial changes
Report Assured with a limitation statement: 'Limitation of the application of Principle 4: Only include what is material'
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Use feedback from the assessment to improve your report. If your report gains assurance, you can consider sharing it with the wider social value community by having it uploaded to the Reports Database.
Before you apply
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Does your report meet all the criteria within the Report Assurance Standard? Download a copy of the standard to use as a checklist as you produce and finalise your report. You can upload an annotated version of the standard to your application, in addition to the supporting documents listed below.
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Before you apply for Report Assurance, please make sure you have completed all the supporting documents that are needed:
A complete Word (or similar) version of the report to be assured, including any appendices and with all references to the author removed.
A complete Excel (or similar) version of the value map used as the basis of the analysis with all references to the author removed. A blank template of the value map is available here.
Evidence of permission to submit the report from the relevant organisations. This evidence can be a signed letter, or a screenshot of an email from a representative of the organisation.
You can also upload a copy of the Report Assurance Standard that you've used as a checklist, making clear where each criteria has been addressed.
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Are you in the early stages of writing your report and looking for feedback on how it's going? SVI offers a Pre-Report Assurance Outcomes Check service to offer some initial advice. Learn more here
Apply for
Report Assurance
Resources to support your application
Assurance Standard
Value Map Template
Report Assurance Pricing 2026
Terms & Conditions
Applications Calendar 2026
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Any social value or SROI report can be submitted for Report Assurance, provided it meets the criteria set out in the Report Assurance Standard. The Standard outlines what best practice looks like when applying the Principles of Social Value, and all reports are assessed against these criteria.
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There are a number of support services available as you prepare your social value or SROI report:
1. The Report Assurance Standard provides a checklist to support you as you develop your report.
2. SVI’s Pre-Report Assurance Outcomes Check enables you to check that the way you’ve engaged your stakeholders and defined outcomes is aligned to the Report Assurance Standard criteria, for a small fee.
3. If you are a member of SVI or any of its Joint Member Networks, you can gain peer support from other members through regional meetings and webinars, and the Global Community Hub. Contact your network to find out more, or learn more about our membership opportunities here.
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You can submit your report during one of SVI’s scheduled Report Assurance rounds. Each round is a two-week window in which applications are accepted and allocated to an assessor. Four rounds take place each year, and the dates are published in the Assurance and Accreditation Calendar.
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Fast-Track is an accelerated assurance option for reports that need to be assessed outside the standard application rounds. It allows you to submit at any time of the year and receive an assigned assessor more quickly. Contact us to discuss availability and timescales for a Fast-Track application.
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For standard assurance rounds, you should allow up to six weeks from the submission date to receive your initial results.
For Fast-Track submissions, allow four weeks for initial results.
If your report requires some alterations to meet the assurance criteria, you may enter an amendment period to update and resubmit your report. This period lasts five weeks from the date you receive your feedback.
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Yes, reports can be assured regardless of the number of authors. However, author requirements apply if you intend to use the report as evidence for practitioner accreditation:
Level 2 Accredited Practitioner: you must be the lead author or sole author
Level 3 Advanced Practitioner: you must be the sole author and have received no formal mentoring
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Yes. The Institute for Social Value hosts a public Report Database, listing hundreds of reports. The majority of listed reports have been awarded assured status. This provides a useful reference point for what an assured report looks like in practice.
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