National Churches Trust Social Value Calculator

What do these numbers mean?

The House of Good: Local calculates the value of the support that our church provides for local people; either directly ourselves or by allowing community organisations to use our building.

The calculator takes the information we have provided, multiplies them by the unit values, and converts it into a monetary equivalent.

The unit values in this calculator are based on rigorous economic analysis, using national survey datasets and a wellbeing-based approach endorsed in HM Treasury’s Green Book. Social value looks beyond financial returns to measure how church buildings make life better for people and communities. When we put a monetary value on wellbeing, it’s to give it an equal footing with financial metrics. The aim of social values is not to reduce your impacts to money, but to make a credible investment case in a way the funders understand.

For more information please see https://www.nationalchurchestrust.org/thehouseofgood.

While State of Life provides assurance of the House of Good: Local, churches take responsibility for their ‘inputs to the model and the use of their reports.