The HBS Scheme Playbook

The HBS Scheme Playbook

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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 suppliers from a static vendor to an always-on, mission-critical strategic partner.
Mitigating the £3.3bn Retail Crime & Safety Risk: How Strategic Social Value is helping Reclaim the High Street

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

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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

Helping Police Executives Operationalise Social Value via the Pluggin Marketplace

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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

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

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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 its utmost commitment to achieving social value and promoting a circular economy.
Connecting expertise and support into small businesses and charities to build community cyber resilience

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

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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 Resilience Centre Network Group.
Differences between Pluggin Ecosystem and Social Value Portal

Differences between Pluggin Ecosystem and Social Value Portal

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New kid on the block Pluggin Ecosystem differs significantly from the more established Social Value Portal, but how?
Public procurement helped create the UKs first dynamic, public-facing social value marketplace…

Public procurement helped create the UKs first dynamic, public-facing social value marketplace…

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The Pluggin Marketplace was built with and for UK public procurement bodies, the UKs first dynamic and public facing social value marketplace supporting how suppliers collaborate within charities for tangible community impact through public contracting.
Pluggin Ecosystem founder explains why the UK approach to social value had to change

Pluggin Ecosystem founder explains why the UK approach to social value had to change

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Pluggin Ecosystem founder Jay Baughan talks to ActionCOACH about why the UK approach to business social value needed to change to maximise the full community impact potential.
Meet The Silent Disco Project CIC

Meet The Silent Disco Project CIC

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Within this DICM area The Silent Disco Project CIC offers local charity, youth services or education setting an expert resource as therapeutic musical experiences for children and young people - particularly those with special educational needs or disabilities, or as part of ongoing youth development services and long-term pathways.This social enterprise's…