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🌍 Spotlighting Social Procurement in Action 🌍 On behalf of the Buy Social consortium we are thrilled to share real-world examples of how social procurement is driving meaningful change across Europe! Our Buy Social Europe B2B platform features inspiring case studies (https://lnkd.in/eEGi29zu) where mainstream enterprises have partnered with social enterprises to make an impact. These collaborations showcase: ✅ Creative solutions to sustainability challenges ✅ Stronger community engagement ✅ Tangible steps toward achieving social and environmental goals From inclusive employment to green innovations, these partnerships prove that buying social is a powerful tool for transformation. Curious to learn more? Discover these stories of impact and innovation here: https://lnkd.in/e9TStZRz #SocialProcurement #SocialImpact #BuySocial #Sustainability #BusinessForGood #SocialEnterprise

💡New Insights on the State of Social Procurement! Social issues in supply chains reached a record high in 2024, with strikes and protests linked to livelihoods and working conditions becoming the second biggest challenge globally. State of Social Procurement 2025: Transforming global supply chains for social impact through the power of social procurement. This research, created with 18 leading organizations, highlights: ➡ How social procurement strengthens supply chain resilience ➡ Regulatory changes driving social impact investments ➡ Real-world case studies from 10+ countries With $5 billion in annual procurement spending, FTSE 100 companies have significant untapped potential for positive impact. Companies like the Rise Ahead Pledge signatories are leading the way, committing $100M to buying from social enterprises. Learn how social procurement can build more resilient, sustainable supply chains👉🏼 🔗 https://ow.ly/pLHF50UMaRV Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship SAP - Telos - Prewave - World Economic Forum #wef25 #SocialProcurement #SupplyChain #Sustainability #SocialInnovation

Social Procurement: Paving the Way for Responsible Business Practices Social procurement is emerging as a key strategy for responsible businesses, integrating social and environmental considerations into purchasing decisions. By adopting social procurement, your company can enhance its brand reputation, positively impact communities, and promote sustainability. Implementation involves assessing current policies, setting social goals, engaging suitable suppliers, and tracking outcomes. With 70% of consumers favoring socially responsible companies and a 15% boost in employee satisfaction, social procurement is poised to become a standard practice. Embracing it ensures your business contributes to societal well-being while driving long-term success. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gnJN_dJd #ai #sustainability #esg #environmentalengineering #environmental #carbon #decarbonization #SocialProcurement #ResponsibleBusiness #SAPNews #AIGC

Does your organisation have what it takes to be recognised for excellence in social value? Only a select few have achieved the Social Value Quality Mark Gold Award, including Netcompany and Kier Transportation. For this award, you'll have: - Robust evidence, case studies and measurement, covering at least 1 year, to prove the value you create for society. - A detailed understanding of how your stakeholders perceive and benefit from your social impact. - A comprehensive strategy for planning, measuring, growing and evolving social value. - Insights for how you performance manage, invest in and develop your supply chain. In return, Gold accreditation equips you with impressive and highly credible evidence of your social sustainability. It is a key differentiator that enables you to build significant loyalty, reputation and influence. https://lnkd.in/eTyMuRw

How do we deliver social justice, opportunity and equality in challenging times. Through "Radical Collaboration" between policy makers, institutions, business and civil society. We all need to play our part. We all need to be aligned. #policy #ESG #impact #socialvalue #sustainability #supplychains #smallbusiness #socialvalueconference2024

Come join Rebecca Dray, Executive Director of Purchasing with Purpose and People and Planet First, in this webinar with givvable.com. You'll learn about the best strategies and practices to align your supply chain with people and planet first values, ways to boost your ESG objectives and create ripple effects of positive change. After the event, you'll learn how social procurement can be a powerful force for good. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gC2cTDfd The webinar is open to all interested in social enterprise, as well as to aspiring impact businesses. #Peopleandplanetfirst #SocialEnterprise #SustainableProcurement #ESGGoals #SupplyChainManagement #PurposeDriven #BusinessForGood #SustainablePractices #PositiveChange

Great to see our Director of Business Services Laura Faulkner on stage at the CIPS - The Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply Futures Conference yesterday talking about social procurement! Some of Laura's key points: - For Nationwide Building Society, as a mutual founded on a clear social purpose to help people buy their own home, having a positive social impact is in our DNA. A key way we can create a meaningful difference in our supply chain is by working with social enterprises, to get the goods and services we need whilst supporting important causes from climate change, to inclusion and diversity, to poverty and homelessness - By working with Social Enterprise UK as part of their Buy Social Corporate Challenge, we've been able to bring more social enterprises into our supply chain, even in finance as a highly regulated industry - We can't always work directly with social enterprises if they don't have the scale of services/supply, so engaging with key third parties (like our catering partners) has enabled us to bring more social enterprise products into our supply chain where they can provide part of a service. Our third parties can then also offer these social enterprise products out to their other customers, creating even more positive impact - Social impact is part of our supplier selection process, with a minimum 10% weighting in tender evaluations to recognise suppliers that are social enterprises / involved in social procurement themselves, as well as other leading ESG practices (this is distinct from and in addition to onboarding ESG due diligence) - To make this happen and part of the culture, you need to dedicate resource to it and provide training to not just procurement teams but also business stakeholders who ultimately want the goods/services If you were there I'd love to know what you thought! Emma Scott MCIPS Jonathan Morgan Rachel Vigor Tess Gorman Rian Patel Andy Daly

💡 New insights on the State of Social Procurement! Global supply chains are under pressure, with social issues accounting for nearly 1 in 5 challenges faced by businesses between 2023 and 2024. 🎉 We're proud to have contributed to the World Economic Forum's State of Social Procurement 2025 report. It builds on the expertise of dozens of organisations to surface new insights on social procurement, showcase novel data, and provide diverse country profiles on social procurement. This research was created with 18 leading organisations and highlights: ➡️ How social procurement strengthens supply chain resilience ➡️ Regulatory changes driving social impact investments ➡️ Real-world case studies from 10+ countries 📍 Learn how social procurement can build more resilient, sustainable supply chains: https://loom.ly/nuRlOuc Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship Prewave World Economic Forum SAP #wef25 #SocialProcurement #SupplyChain #Sustainability #SocialInnovation

📢Wondering what are some of the global trends in social procurement? How it’s one of the ways organisations can strengthen their supply chains while doing good? Here’s a great source by World Economic Forum. ⬇️

Great to put a spotlight on Australia's social economy at Davos, with a contribution to the World Economic Forum & Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship's State of Social Procurement report. Did you know – two thirds of a company's potential for positive or negative impact comes from its supply chain? That’s huge. And that’s the power of social procurement. Social issues in global supply chains are on the rise. Social procurement is becoming a strategic opportunity, aligned with multiple business benefits such as customer branding, talent retention, supply chain resilience, or corporate sustainability performance. It’s fantastic to see the global uptake of social procurement as a mechanism to deliver social value through existing business activity. The report featured the latest analysis from the Social Traders RISE report and six years of social procurement data. It showcased the 29% growth rate in social procurement, and the $843m spent with certified social enterprises over six years. Fabulous to have Australia’s leadership highlighted. Have a read of the report here 👉 https://loom.ly/nuRlOuc Keep an eye out for mentions of some of Australia’s many social procurement leaders - Outlook Australia, SisterWorks Inc., Yarra Trams and Fruit2WorkAus. Thanks to Andy Daly, Charlie Wigglesworth and Social Enterprise UK for the collaboration.