Operationalising Contract Social Value – Part One.
It's 2026, Police budgets are under unprecedented strain. Yet the demand for community safety and multi-agency collaboration and funding continues to rise.
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 its utmost commitment to achieving social value and promoting a circular economy.
Gwent charity The Gap-Wales joins the Pluggin Marketplace for social value support within police buying
Social value within Gwent Police buying is bringing refugee communities together by supporting charity The Gap-Wales; a charity dedicated to preventing exploitation and strengthening cohesion.
Gwent charity TOGS now being supported by social value marketplace thanks to Gwent police buying
Pontypool charity TOGS is now being supported by Gwent Police's use of the Pluggin Marketplace to drive supplier contract social value in support of police & crime plan objectives.
Gwent charity Community House also being supported through the contract supplier social value in police buying
Gwent Police's use of the Pluggin Marketplace to drive supplier contract social value in support of police & crime plan objectives, is now sustaining the long-term impact from Community House in Gwent
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 Resilience Centre Network Group.
Welsh Community Impact From Forces Fitness
Meet Forces Fitness, a multi-award winning social enterprise run by veterans is now being supported by police buying in Wales; where business social value meets police and crime plan objectives
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?
New support for communities to tackle rising levels of cybercrime across Wales
Several million cases of fraud and of computer misuse are reported to the police every year. It's staggering, but even more staggering is that so many of those crimes could have been prevented by making a few small changes in online behaviour.