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...

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...

Social value is pushing the GYM youth bus into more areas

Social value in police contracting will now scale the GYM Youth Van; a proven community impact provision expanding into 3 dedicated areas in collaboration with police suppliers...

Great Movement youth Bus

"Today was an amazing start with 21 kids having a blast at our first basketball session at Manor Farm! 🏀💪 We can't wait to see everyone back next week for more fun and teamwork! Let's keep the energy high! 🙌✨...

Why we do what we do !!

Partner with GYM Youth Bus to deliver measurable social value: reduce youth crime, boost community cohesion, provide skills and wellbeing support — sponsor sessions, equipment, or mentoring. Join us!!...

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...

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