Wales Region

Find out how social value is building community health, safety and resilience across the region.

Region Spotlight

Cyber Resilience: A social care impact

A real life story of how cyber crime can have a devastating effect on a small business, showing that cyber criminals are very sophisticated in what they do and don’t respect any boundaries.

Businesses supplying welsh public bodies, you can use expertise as social value to help communities.

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About the Marketplace

Sustaining Impact

Strategic Development

Join the drive to harness social value within public contracting.

Across the region, large-scale approaches are linking counties to build a healthier, safer and more resilient region.

The PALS Leaders Programme

The Pluggin Studios Support

Building Cyber Resilience

See the regional impact updates shared by our business, charity & social enterprise and public procurement members.

The HBS Scheme Playbook

23 April 2026

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

9 April 2026

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

29 March 2026Pluggin News

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

19 March 2026Tailored 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

17 March 2026The Gap Wales

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

17 March 2026TOGs

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

17 March 2026Community House

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

13 March 2026National Cyber Resilience Centre Group

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

9 March 2026Gwent Police,South Wales Police

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...

Differences between Pluggin Ecosystem and Social Value Portal

2 March 2026Pluggin News

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

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