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
Find out more about the impact of our Buy Social Corporate Challenge which works with corporates to bring social enterprises into their supply chains.
As a partner in the Future Economy Alliance, we were proud to host a roundtable with West Yorkshire’s Metro Mayor Tracy Brabin, bringing together social enterprises and other mission-led organisations for a discussion of how combined authorities can support them to fix regional economies.
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.