SAN Vision, Mission, Value, Objective

Vision:

The Social Audit Network will work towards becoming the foremost network organisation in the UK promoting an accessible social accounting and audit process for the community, social economy and public sectors.

Mission:

The Social Audit Network seeks to promote and support social accounting and audit as the preferred means whereby organisations operating in the community, social economy and public sectors report on their social, environmental and economic performance.

Values:

SAN is committed to upholding their values based around…

Democracy
Accessibility
Empowerment
Partnership
Transparency

Principles of the Social Accounting and Audit process applied by SAN:

Clarify purpose
Define scope
Engage stakeholders
Determine materiality
Make comparisons
Be transparent
Verify accounts
Embed the process

Objectives

To promote, facilitate and encourage the use of social accounting and audit through the sharing of information and experience
To lobby and influence other bodies and institutions on behalf of the Social Audit Network
To establish and administer a process to approve persons who are deemed competent to act as social auditors
To identify and arrange appropriate training and continuing personal development for social auditors and social accounting trainers/facilitators
To undertake research and consultation to develop agreed common standards which may be applied in respect of i) the content of a set of social accounts; ii) the processes used in gathering information for and preparing social accounts; iii) the methods by which social accounts can be verified as trustworthy
To manage SAN competently and with commitment to our values