SROI Calculator
Estimate the wider value created by sport, fitness, mentoring and progression.
MEM Academy uses SROI and social value modelling to help funders understand the wider value created by community sport, youth prevention, wellbeing, progression and justice-linked support. The calculator estimates potential taxpayer and social value based on delivery data such as sessions, participants engaged, attendance, progression outcomes and wellbeing improvements.
Inputs (where available)
- Participants engaged
- Sessions delivered
- Total attendances
- Active sites
- Retention / repeat attendance
- Progression into training
- Progression into volunteering
- Progression into work placement
- Progression into employment
- Wellbeing improvement
- Youth prevention / justice-related indicators (where relevant)
Outputs
- Estimated social value
- Estimated taxpayer value
- Value per £1 invested
- Cost per participant
- Cost per retained participant
- Cost per progression outcome
- Methodology status
- Reporting period
Open the calculator
The calculator below models estimated taxpayer and social value across MoJ, NHS and DWP impact pathways. Adjust inputs to reflect your funded cohort or scenario.
Sporting Impact SROI estimator
Indicative yearly public-value estimate based on Sporting Impact delivery data and active annual funding. All figures update as you adjust inputs. Methodology pending final sign-off where relevant.
Annual investment is calculated from active multi-year and small-pot funding, not total grant value. Brent Council funding is marked as historic/expired and can be toggled on for historic comparison.
Methodology status
- Indicative SROI estimate — not confirmed cashable savings.
- Unit values draw from Sport England social value sources, public-cost references and MEM's agreed modelling assumptions.
- Annual investment is derived from active funding sources, not total grant value.
- Methodology pending final sign-off where relevant.
- Figures update as delivery data is logged.
Taxpayer-savings calculator
Adjust the cohort sizes to model the conservative public-purse savings MEM's delivery generates across the Ministry of Justice, NHS and DWP. All unit costs are UK government / NAO / Sport England figures — sources listed below each line.
Based on 250 young people diverted from first entry to youth justice (5% of cohort), 45 ex-offenders diverted from re-offending (30% of cohort), and 60 ex-offenders entering paid coaching work (40% of cohort).
Sources: MoJ Costs per Prisoner 2022/23 (£51,724/yr); Home Office Economic & Social Cost of Crime 2018 (£4,700/incident); NAO Reducing Reoffending.
Sources: PHE Movement for Health; Sport England Social Value Model (£90/active adult/yr; £60/active YP/yr — NHS-cost-only, conservative).
Sources: UC standard allowance £393/mo (single adult, 25+); HMRC PAYE + NI on £22k coaching salary ≈ £2,400/yr.
Send these exact figures to funders or commissioners. The link encodes your inputs so they see the same scenario.
- Annual saving
- £4,073,342.5
- MoJ
- £3,474,363
- NHS
- £313,500
- DWP
- £285,480
MEM Academy — taxpayer-savings summary
Generated 01/07/2026 · memacademy.org
£4,073,342.5 estimated annual saving
| Young people supported | 5,000 |
| Ex-offenders supported | 150 |
| Ministry of Justice | £3,474,363 |
| NHS | £313,500 |
| DWP | £285,480 |
HM Treasury Green Book methodology. Conservative — diverted-cohort only. Contact: enquiries@mem.fitness
Methodology: deliberately conservative. We only count diverted-cohort savings (not the full cohort), use NHS-cost-only wellbeing values (not Sport England's full £1,127/person social value), and exclude wider productivity, housing and victim-impact savings. Real figures are almost certainly higher. Full source list available on request — share with your economic adviser to stress-test assumptions for your own commissioning case.