Our services
At Vaere Social, we work with governments, infrastructure partners and policy teams to embed social value, equity and climate foresight into the way we plan, design and invest in places.
Our work spans social impact, inclusion strategy and systems-level advice — helping clients make decisions that are not only smart, but socially meaningful. We support teams to navigate complexity, hold competing priorities, and move forward with confidence and care.
With deep expertise in planning, policy, and human-centred systems thinking, we bring a rare mix of rigour and real-world perspective. Every engagement is shaped to fit its context — no templates, no one-size-fits-all. Just thoughtful work, grounded in evidence, and tailored to deliver outcomes that last — socially, politically, and structurally.
Our role adapts to what the work needs — from strategic input to embedded support. However we’re engaged, we bring clarity, integrity, and a focus on what truly matters.
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We assess social impact not as a checkbox, but as a core part of how decisions affect people’s lives — now and into the future.
Our work brings together rigorous analysis, real-world insight, and lived experience to support planning approvals, policy shifts, and investment decisions. We help ensure that what gets built, funded, or approved delivers genuine social value — not just on paper, but in practice.
Because every project leaves a legacy. Our job is to make sure it’s one that communities can live with — and live well within.
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Inclusion isn’t a feature — it’s a foundation. And equity isn’t achieved through intention alone.
We work to uncover who planning and policy systems have been designed for — and who’s been left out. By bringing lived experience, neurodivergent insight, and accessibility thinking into the heart of decision-making, we help shift the frame: from doing things for communities to building with them.
Because inclusive systems don’t just feel better — they work better. For everyone.
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We help decision-makers see the full picture — not just what’s urgent, but what’s important. Not just what’s measurable, but what matters.
Our strategy work brings together social foresight, equity, and climate realism to guide the complex decisions that shape cities, systems, and lives. We ask the hard questions early, bring the right people into the room, and create the space to plan for what’s coming — not just what’s already here.
Because in a world defined by uncertainty, long-term public value is only possible when we plan with clarity, courage, and care.
Social impact
Social impact isn’t just a reporting requirement — it’s the lived consequence of how places are planned, governed, and invested in.
At Vaere Social, we help clients understand, anticipate, and respond to those consequences with clarity, care, and credibility. We bring real-world insight, lived experience, and deep analytical skill to the table — so decisions are not just justified, but just.
Our work supports strategy, approvals, and long-term planning with analysis that weaves together demographic shifts, community needs, social infrastructure, and human stories. We help clients invest with confidence — not just to meet thresholds, but to create places people want to belong to.
We offer a rare balance: depth without jargon, rigour with heart. Advice that stands up to scrutiny, while staying grounded in community values and everyday life.
Services include:
Social Impact Assessment (SIA) for infrastructure and development
Demographic and community needs analysis
Social infrastructure audits and planning inputs
Social value frameworks and evaluation metrics
Precinct-scale social mapping and place-based insight
Strategic input for DAs, EIS submissions, funding bids and value cases
Expert witness services for social impact
Inclusion & equity
Inclusion isn’t a layer you add at the end. It’s a way of thinking from the start — about who’s at the table, who’s missing, and what it takes to make systems truly work for more people.
At Vaere Social, we support clients to build equity into the foundations of planning, policy, and infrastructure. That means working upstream — shaping strategy and governance as much as design — and drawing on lived experience, neurodivergent insight, and inclusive practice to shift how decisions are made.
We focus on how change shows up in real life: in access, trust, power, and participation. Our work bridges inclusive intent with strategic delivery — helping clients move beyond good intentions to outcomes that hold.
Services include:
Inclusion strategy and equity-focused frameworks
Lived experience integration and narrative synthesis
Inclusive design guidance and social planning inputs
Neurodivergent-inclusive policy and public space advice
Stakeholder mapping, journey design and ethical engagement
Equity audits and social sustainability inputs for precincts and programs
Let’s work together…
If you’re shaping policy, infrastructure or urban places — and want to do it with care, clarity, and social impact that lasts — I’d love to hear from you.
At Vaere Social, we help clients navigate complexity with integrity. We bring the human layer into big decisions, and support strategies that are inclusive, future-focussed, and built to hold.
Every project is different — and so is our role. Whether you need strategic advice, embedded support or just someone to sense-check a path forward, let’s talk about how we can work together.
Planning for people and place
Cities are under pressure to adapt — to climate, to growth, to inequality, to shifting expectations. The risk isn’t just that we fall behind. It’s that we build forward without thinking deeply enough about who benefits — and who doesn’t.
At Vaere Social, we support governments, infrastructure agencies and policy teams to make better decisions at the strategy level — where priorities are set, trade-offs are made, and long-term impacts are shaped. We bring deep expertise in social planning, policy design, governance and systems thinking, with a focus on making big-picture strategies socially sound and politically durable.
Our role is often to bring the human layer into ambitious reform — aligning social value with climate goals, integrating equity into infrastructure plans, or bridging gaps between policy and delivery. We ask the difficult questions early, hold space for nuance, and help align diverse stakeholders around shared outcomes that last.
Services include:
Strategic planning advice for precincts, infrastructure and urban policy
Integration of wellbeing, ESG and equity frameworks into planning and investment
Social dimensions of climate adaptation, resilience and energy transition
Cross-agency facilitation and multi-stakeholder alignment
Policy analysis, briefing and implementation strategies
Inclusive engagement for complex, city-shaping initiatives