We hosted an event with centre-right think-tank Onward this week to explore how social enterprises and other mission-led businesses can help build a more resilient society, as part of our Future Economy Alliance campaigning to push our way of working up the economic policy agenda.
Research published at our Social Value Leaders’ Summit looked at how this transformative approach to commissioning and procurement is being implemented by local authorities.
We are proud to announce that pioneering social entrepreneur Joanne Anderson has joined us as an Associate Director leading our Social Value 2032 Programme. As the first female Mayor of Liverpool, Joanne spearheaded efforts to deliver social value for local communities, introducing and monitoring targets across local government contracts to make sure that procurement benefitted … Continued
Our first Social Procurement Meet-up brought together social enterprises and corporate buyers to build new connections and partnerships.
Our latest annual Buy Social Corporate Challenge Impact Report shows it has had the most successful year ever, as our 30 corporate partners spent £99 million with social enterprise suppliers.
The Social Value 2032 Roadmap sets out how we can make social value cover all public sector procurement and influence the spending of the largest private sector companies
Launching in January 2023, Social Procurement Connect is a new initiative from Social Enterprise UK (SEUK) created to support organisations add social value and impact into their supply chains.
On the evening of 28 November the House of Lords voted on an amendment to the Procurement Bill to include social value within the legislation. This is SEUK’s response