Steer values all efforts to positively contribute to long-term wellbeing and resilience across individuals, communities, and society.
Our approach
Our approach to social value focuses on four key themes:
- Jobs, skills and employment
- Healthier, safer and more resilient communities
- Cleaner, greener and sustainable environmental solutions
- Economic and social innovation
We encourage our people to engage in activities aligned with these themes, while also supporting clients to deliver projects that generate meaningful social value.
Supporting our people to make a difference
We actively support employees to contribute to their communities. This includes:
- Five days of volunteering leave each year
- A donation-matching initiative to support fundraising efforts
Our impact
In FY25, our people contributed to communities around the world through volunteering and charitable initiatives:
🙋♀️86 employees volunteered
⏳583 volunteering hours
💙£25,500 donated
🤝21 charities supported
In action
Our teams supported a wide range of initiatives aligned with global social and environmental priorities, including:
- Supporting food banks and community organisations addressing food insecurity across the UK, US, and Latin America
- Donating to organisations such as Macmillan and Médecins Sans Frontières, supporting health, emergency medical aid, and humanitarian response
- Volunteering in local communities, including mentoring young people and supporting education initiatives
- Delivering workshops to promote inclusive design and challenge gender stereotypes
- Supporting hospices and charities providing care and assistance to vulnerable individuals and families
- Participating in local environmental and community improvement initiatives, including clean-up and regeneration projects
- Contributing professional expertise to support sustainability and environmental initiatives
Delivering social value through our work
We have undertaken hundreds of projects that contribute to social value outcomes. A snapshot of this work includes:
- Measuring and influencing economic prosperity in Bolton, UK
- Developing a mobility master plan for Manizales, Colombia
- Drafting a skills strategy for the life sciences industry
- Advising on India’s prosperity fund to reduce poverty
- Reviewing the effectiveness of behaviour change programmes in the USA
- Implementing clean bus technology in Latin America
- Improving local transit in Canada’s smaller municipalities
- Exploring the role of arts and culture in the creative industries
- Transforming Ealing into a Liveable Neighbourhood, UK
- Developing bike and train options for low income communities in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Create social value through your projects
We work with clients to embed meaningful social value into strategies, programmes, and infrastructure—delivering measurable benefits for communities.
Explore our wider social impact work
Our approach brings together people, communities, and environmental impact. Explore how we deliver change across our core focus areas.
