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Dual-methodology social value calculator

Compare MEM's deliberately conservative MoJ / NHS / DWP cost-avoidance model against the nationally validated Sport England SROI multiplier (£4.38 per £1, November 2025) on the same cohort.

Live calculation

£512k
MEM conservative
£509k
Sport England SROI
£5.1
MEM £ per £1
£5.1
SE £ per £1

Live data · Updates as you adjust inputs below

1. Cohort & investment

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100 people
10 people500 people
30 people
0 people200 people
£100,000
£10,000£500,000

Affects which methodologies you can cite (see eligibility grid below).

60% active
0% active100% active

Community split updated. 45 adults: 27 active (60 percent) and 18 fairly active (40 percent). Plus 55 young people valued at the active-child tier.

Methodology: Sport England / Sheffield Hallam SIRC November 2025. WELLBY: HM Treasury £15,900. MoJ: £51,724/prison-year 2022/23.

MEM conservative

MoJ / NHS / DWP cost-avoidance

HM Treasury Green Book · MoJ Costs per Prisoner 2022/23 · Sport England NHS-cost-only

Total social value

£512,470

£5.1 per £1 invested

Community wellbeing — NHS (45 adults · 55 youth)
£7,350
Prison diversion — MoJ (5 avoided prison-years)
£258,620
Employment value — DWP (29 into work)
£246,500

Deliberately conservative. Only cost-avoidance counted. No productivity, housing, or victim-impact savings included. Reoffending reductions are MEM internal cohort, pending Justice Data Lab verification.

Suitable for: Ministry of Justice, HMPPS, probation, NHS commissioners

Sport England SROI

Sport England SROI (£4.38 per £1)

Sheffield Hallam SIRC · State of Life · Manchester Met · Sport England, Nov 2025

Total social value

£509,194

£5.1 per £1 invested

Primary wellbeing — Sport England Nov 2025 tiers (60% active / 40% fairly active)
£328,300
Secondary health value (13.4% of SROI)
£58,692
Social & community development (27.9% of SROI)
£122,202
Crime reduction (8% — for context only, NOT MEM's stated claim)
£35,040

Nationally validated. £4.38 per £1 (November 2025 Sport England figure). WELLBY at £15,900 per HM Treasury guidelines. Open Government Licence v3.0.

Suitable for: Sport England funding, corporate ESG, NHS social prescribing, Procurement Act 2023

Compare scenarios

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2. Side-by-side comparison

All three figures calculated from the same cohort and investment above.

MEM conservative total£512,470
£512k
Sport England SROI — MEM's stated figure£509,194
£509k
Sport England full incl. crime reduction(for context only)£544,234
£544k

3. Methodology eligibility

Which model can you cite for which delivery context?

Community delivery in England

Eligible

Fully eligible for both models.

In-custody / prison delivery

Partial / grey area

Eligible for MEM conservative. Sport England: amber — custody settings not in Active Lives sample.

Corporate workforce (active participation)

Eligible

Eligible for Sport England SROI.

Corporate cash donation only

Not eligible

Not eligible for Sport England SROI multiplier — passive funding.

Scotland / Wales delivery

Not eligible

Not eligible for Sport England — England-only dataset.

Passive sponsorship / spectating

Not eligible

Active participation required by Sport England methodology.

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How are these figures calculated?

MEM conservative model — unit costs & sources
  • £90 / adult / year — conservative floor (pre-2024 NHS-cost-only baseline). Nov 2025 Sport England: £301–£478/yr. MEM uses the lower figure deliberately.
  • £60 / active young person / year — pro-rated NHS-cost-only estimate for under-18s.
  • £51,724 / avoided prison-year — Ministry of Justice, Costs per Prisoner 2022/23.
  • £8,500 / person into work — Universal Credit avoided + PAYE/NI on a £22k salary (HM Treasury Green Book unit-cost approach, 2021).
  • 18% prison diversion · 22% employment rate · 55% youth cohort — MEM internal cohort figures, pending Justice Data Lab verification.
Sport England SROI — WELLBY & multiplier
  • WELLBY £15,900 — HM Treasury 2024-price value of one wellbeing-adjusted life year.
  • Per-person wellbeing tiers (Nov 2025 SIRC) — £2,600/yr active adult · £1,200/yr fairly active · £4,300/yr active child. Replaces the older 0.052 WELLBY-shift coefficient. Adult split set by the “% active vs fairly active” input (default 60/40).
  • £4.38 per £1 invested — Sheffield Hallam SIRC / Sport England headline SROI multiplier (Nov 2025).
  • Primary vs secondary value — Primary is the direct WELLBY change in the participant. Secondary is the knock-on health, social, and crime-reduction value calculated from the headline multiplier.
Eligibility rules — who can cite which model
  • Sport England SROI is derived from the Active Lives Survey, which samples community-based adults in England. Custody settings, under-16s and non-England geographies are out of sample.
  • MEM’s conservative MoJ / NHS / DWP model is built from Government unit-cost guidance and applies wherever the underlying cohort can be evidenced (community or custody, UK-wide).
  • Active participation is required for the Sport England multiplier — passive sponsorship or spectating does not qualify.

Citations

Sport England / State of Life / Sheffield Hallam University SIRC / Manchester Metropolitan University. Social Value of Sport and Physical Activity in England 2023–24. November 2025. Published under Open Government Licence v3.0.

MoJ Costs per Prisoner 2022/23. HM Treasury Green Book (2021). Sport England NHS-cost-only unit costs.