Gwent

Find out how social value within public sector buying is part of building community health, safety and resilience across Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Newport, and Torfaen

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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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Across Wales, police buyers and suppliers are adding business support to the national approach for community cyber safety and resilience.

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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...

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...

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...

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...

 

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