
Here's the latest buyer, business and community insights and updates from across the marketplace.
Mitigating the £3.3bn Retail Crime & Safety Risk: How Strategic Social Value is helping Reclaim the High Street
9 April 2026To 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...

Operationalising Contract Social Value – Part Two.
3 April 2026Always-On,Dual ImpactIn an era of tightening budgets and complex community demands, the Home Office and our police forces are facing a fundamental question: How do we fund long-term prevention while maintaining a visible frontline?
The answer doesn't lie in waiting for the...

Operationalising Contract Social Value – Part One.
2 April 2026Always-On,Pluggin NewsIt's 2026, Police budgets are under unprecedented strain. Yet the demand for community safety and multi-agency collaboration and funding continues to rise...

Helping Police Executives Operationalise Social Value via the Pluggin Marketplace
29 March 2026Pluggin NewsRead 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
19 March 2026Tailored ImageTailored 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
17 March 2026The Gap WalesSocial 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...
