West Midlands Area

Find out how social value within public sector buying is part of building community health, safety and resilience across Birmingham, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall and Wolverhampton

 
 
 

Headline Business Supporters

These businesses are helping us make this marketplace a free collaboration space for everyone, to enable public bodies to support the evolution of impact in local communities. 

 
 

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For ecosystem business members supplying into the emergency services, councils, NHS and criminal justice services:  

Featured community provisions to support within contracts:

 
 
 

Featured strategic projects to support within contracts:

 

Building SME Cyber Resilience

 

Neuro-diversity Support

 

EV and Tackling Retail Crime 

 

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Here's where businesses and communities share the real updates on social value and the support for impact...

The HBS Scheme Playbook

This HBS Scheme playbook is a quick-step way for sales and marketing teams to take an early-entry position of founding member ahead of the main roll-out of the HBS Scheme; the scheme is creating a new brand differentiator by moving...

Great Movement youth Bus

"Today was an amazing start with 21 kids having a blast at our first basketball session at Manor Farm! 🏀💪 We can't wait to see everyone back next week for more fun and teamwork! Let's keep the energy high! 🙌✨...

Why we do what we do !!

Partner with GYM Youth Bus to deliver measurable social value: reduce youth crime, boost community cohesion, provide skills and wellbeing support — sponsor sessions, equipment, or mentoring. Join us!!...

Mitigating the £3.3bn Retail Crime & Safety Risk: How Strategic Social Value is helping Reclaim the High Street

To protect the long-term viability of the high street, we must pivot from containment to structural prevention. The most potent tool for this transition lies within an unexpected quarter: Public Procurement...

Helping Police Executives Operationalise Social Value via the Pluggin Marketplace

Read how this fully established UK marketplace, is leveraging the multi-billion pound police and council supply chains within an area to create sustainable, private sector funded safety nets for your neighbourhoods, aligned perfectly with your statutory multi-agency objectives and obligations...

Giving Life to Unused Garments – Sustainability in Action at Tailored Image

Tailored Image has engaged with two organisations to address how uniforms are given a purposeful life beyond their initial use. Through its work with a recycling partner in the UK and a charitable organisation in Ireland, the company has demonstrated...

Connecting expertise and support into small businesses and charities to build community cyber resilience

To bolster the scale of expertise and resources available to community organisations and SMEs, the Pluggin Marketplace is enabling business cyber security knowledge as social value within supply contracts, in line with Home Office funded support from the National Cyber...

Differences between Pluggin Ecosystem and Social Value Portal

New kid on the block Pluggin Ecosystem differs significantly from the more established Social Value Portal, but how?...

Support for Community Cyber Resilience

The cyber resilience of social enterprises and SMEs is now being supported through public buying within the Pluggin Marketplace. A mix of National Cyber Resilience Centre Group (NCRCG) support and the contract social value (equipment and knowledge exchange volunteering) from...

 

 

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