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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Published Impact Objectives

Frequently asked questions

FAQ

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...

Warwickshire Young High Sheriff YHS) Programme

3 June 2026

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

20 May 2026

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 As we move through 2026, the traditional playbook used by Tier-1 contractors and public buyers is no longer just outdated—it is a compliance liability...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

18 May 2026

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...