Staffordshire

Find out how social value within public sector buying is part of building community health, safety and resilience across Stoke-on-Trent, Stafford, Lichfield, Tamworth, Burton upon Trent, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Cannock Chase, East Staffordshire, South Staffordshire, Staffordshire Moorlands, and Tamworth

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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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Building SME Cyber Resilience

Neuro-diversity Support

EV and Tackling Retail Crime 

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Here's where businesses and communities share the real updates on social value and the support for impact...

The 2026 Public Procurement Squeeze: Why "Box-Ticking" is Dead and How Local SMEs Are Holding the £7.4bn Answer

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 As we move through 2026, the traditional playbook used by Tier-1 contractors and public buyers is no longer just outdated—it is a compliance liability...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

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...

Why Tier-1 Value Added Reseller IT Suppliers are Risking a "Strategic Miss" on Social Value

For the UK’s Tier-1 technology giants the rules of social value leadership in the UK public sector just changed... The eye of Mordor has moved!...

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...

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...

Operationalising Contract Social Value – Part Two.

In 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.

It'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

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...

 

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