Social Value Leaders’ Summit 2025

Towards mission-driven procurement systems Our Social Value Leaders’ Summit on Wednesday 26 March in central London, brings together senior leaders and decision-makers from across the public, private and social enterprise sectors to discuss, debate and shape the future of social value. With the Procurement Act coming into effect on 24 February and the new National … Continued

Driving inclusive growth in public procurement

Mark Cook is a partner at Social Value 2032 programme partner Anthony Collins law firm, who has 30 years’ experience of procurement with well-being at its heart. As UK Parliament reconvenes this week, change is afoot with our new Government. There is a clear determination to build the economy – drawing together themes of enabling … Continued

The Social Value Podcast

Social Enterprise UK has launched a new podcast exploring the ways in which social value can be used to help businesses, the public sector and Government to develop a fairer, greener society.  

Our Social Value story: Siemens UK

Dietmar Harteveld, Chief Procurement Officer at Siemens UK has written this piece on how the business is working to embed social enterprises across their supply chain.

The Procurement Bill and the future of social value

By Andrew O’Brien – Director of External Affairs at Social Enterprise UK Given all the uncertainty in Westminster these days, social enterprises would be forgiven for missing the Procurement Bill which is currently making its way through the House of Lords. The Procurement Bill seeks to create a new legal framework for procurement in the … Continued