Northamptonshire

Find out how social value within public sector buying is part of building community health, safety and resilience across Northampton, Daventry, Kettering, Corby and Wellingborough.

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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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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...

Differences between Pluggin Ecosystem and Social Value Portal

New kid on the block Pluggin Ecosystem differs significantly from the more established Social Value Portal, but how?...

Public procurement helped create the UKs first dynamic, public-facing social value marketplace…

The Pluggin Marketplace was built with and for UK public procurement bodies, the UKs first dynamic and public facing social value marketplace supporting how suppliers collaborate within charities for tangible community impact through public contracting...

Pluggin Ecosystem founder explains why the UK approach to social value had to change

Pluggin Ecosystem founder Jay Baughan talks to ActionCOACH about why the UK approach to business social value needed to change to maximise the full community impact potential...

Public contract social value in Thames Valley is underpinning community-led provisions

"We can't police our way out of this" In 2023, Thames Valley Police's procurement team (led by Richard Fowles) saw real potential in better targeting their supply contracts' social value (a return on goods and services investments) into the community-led...

Meet The Silent Disco Project CIC

Within this DICM area The Silent Disco Project CIC offers local charity, youth services or education setting an expert resource as therapeutic musical experiences for children and young people - particularly those with special educational needs or disabilities, or as...

Fighting retail crime together: Community Partnership

Northamptonshire Business Crime Partnership (NBCP) works with Northamptonshire Police and the Office of the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner (OPFCC) to prevent, disrupt and deter retail crime and anti-social behaviour...

Local charity welcomes high profile new Chairman

Chris Heaton-Harris, Former MP for Daventry and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, is to chair the board of trustees at a local registered charity, The Reach for Health Centre...

A Safer Northants

New chief constable of Northamptonshire Police has told a police, fire and crime panel confirmation hearing that he wants to make Northamptonshire the "safest county in the UK"...

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