Thames Valley

Find out how social value within public sector buying is part of building community health, safety and resilience across Durham City, Barnard Castle, Bishop Auckland, Chester-le-Street, Seaham,  Stanhope, Billingham, Consett, Darlington, Hartlepool and Peterlee.

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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Business members who supply the emergency services, councils, NHS and criminal justice services can utilise this area to find and engage with buyer approved community activities and projects making impact; to develop contributory social value within bids or as part of their ongoing social value marketing:  

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Featured community provisions to support within contracts:

Here's where public buyers have positioned the community provisions already making impact aligned with their strategic objectives, which can be engaged with as social value collaborations in supply contracts. 

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

Gwent Police Joins The Pluggin Civic Infrastructure To Drive Supplier Social Value

Gwent Police has adopted the Pluggin civic infrastructure and social value marketplace to help suppliers turn social value commitments into practical, visible and measurable public benefit across Gwent. The infrastructure enables police to provide suppliers with a clear route to...

Pluggin begins scale-up of its civic infrastructure to support social value across £10 billion of public buying

Traditional approaches have relied on static, portal-based and unverified supplier self-reporting; generic proxy estimates that consume administrative hours without yielding any evidence of tangible local impact which communities have validated. The Pluggin civic infrastructure fundamentally restructures this dynamic and is...

A civic social impact infrastructure built into the real world.

Societal needs are dynamic, immediate, and constantly evolving. Charity matchmaking, static proxy calculators, and post-hoc report brokering have not addressed real needs and simply spawned a corporate cottage industry while leaving frontline community resourcing needs unmet...

Suppliers being encouraged to leverage the Youth Jobs Grant Scheme in line with their public sector tenders…

The Youth Jobs Grant is a UK Government employment initiative offering employers up to £3,000 for recruiting and training eligible young people who may otherwise struggle to enter the labour market. It is a central element of the wider Youth...

Warwickshire Young High Sheriff YHS) Programme

Hosted by the charity Warwickshire Crimebeat, the Young High Sheriff Programme is a unique civic and crime prevention initiative which embeds into secondary schools; designed to give young people a direct voice in community safety and leadership.Launched as a national...

The 2026 Public Procurement Squeeze: Why "Box-Ticking" is Dead and How Local SMEs Are Holding the £7.4bn Answer

The landscape of UK public sector procurement has hit a point of no return. As we move through 2026, the traditional playbook used by Tier-1 contractors and public buyers is no longer just outdated—it is a compliance liability...

Pluggin Marketplace Launches National Apprenticeship Levy Hand-off Campaign

Having successfully tested the way for the large Tier-1 suppliers to seamlessly offset their unused, expiring Apprenticeship Levy funds directly into grassroots organisations within public contracts, the Pluggin Marketplace is now scaling this radical way for all major suppliers to...

80 percent crime and ASB reduction in Woodend Community – Coventry

Within Coventry, our Woodend outreach bus (3–7pm) has cut crime & ASB by 80%, engaging youth with activities & support...

Does AI Know About Your Social Value?

The new public sector sales battleground is social value, the 10-30% weighting on supply tenders. So why does AI need to be a marketing and sales focus, how will this ensure your business stands-out for its social value?...

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