Operationalising Contract Social Value – Part Two.

Operationalising Contract Social Value – Part Two.

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In an era of tightening budgets and complex community demands, the Home Office and our police forces are facing a fundamental question: How do we fund long-term prevention while maintaining a visible frontline? The answer doesn't lie in waiting for the next grant cycle. It lies in our £330 billion UK supply chain.
Operationalising Contract Social Value – Part One.

Operationalising Contract Social Value – Part One.

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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

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.
Axis Counselling confirmed as new provider for vital victim services commissioned by PCC

Axis Counselling confirmed as new provider for vital victim services commissioned by PCC

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Specialist West Mercia charity wins contract to provide a joined-up approach which will give victims a seamless and consistent support pathway, helping them understand their options, navigate the criminal justice process and access the emotional and practical help they need - without having to move between multiple services.
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?
Support for Community Cyber Resilience

Support for Community Cyber Resilience

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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 technology suppliers to the emergency services, councils, NHS and criminal justice…
Meet Guiding Young Minds (GYM)

Meet Guiding Young Minds (GYM)

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Guiding Young Minds (GYM) as a service, grew and developed from the charity ASSIST Trauma Care; a specialist therapeutic organisation dedicated to supporting people who have suffered psychological trauma. GYM is now a therapeutic service which recognises that young people caught up in gangs and knife crime have often experienced adverse…