Bradford District Social Value delivery partners summary
It has been agreed through the Building Bradford’s Supply Chain Board, that the support and delivery of social value should be undertaken through our identified local (Bradford District based)
delivery partners. This is to ensure that we are working with partners who understand our
communities and its needs the best. It also ensures we invest our resources and capacity with local
organisations, and as such maintain our ambition of focusing our spend locally – ‘keeping the
Bradford Pound in Bradford’. As such our future evaluation of social value in tenders will favour
suppliers using our local partners.
The full guidance which will be made available to contract managers and suppliers on the launch of
our new social value approaches, will outline in detail which partners can support which of our
individually identified social value measures. This document provides a quick reference summary of
our principal partners by theme.
| Theme | Example activities | Local delivery partner |
|---|---|---|
| Employment | Any recruitment requirements – apprentices, employing local people including unemployed, employing vulnerable groups – including full into work support of individuals being recruited | The SkillsHouse Partnership [email protected] |
| Employment practices | EDI practices General working practices |
SkillsHouse Business Engagement Services [email protected] |
| Education | Supporting skills and career development through our local schools and colleges | Careers and Technical Education [email protected] |
| Placements | For T-Level students, school age students, paid / unpaid internships | CTE (work experience) [email protected] SkillsHouse (internships) [email protected] |
| Adult learning | Apprenticeships, organisational specific reskill/upskill (Level 2 upwards), adult education and family & community learning. | Local Colleges (including Skills for Work, Bradford College, Shipley College, Keighley College) (facilitated through SkillsHouse [email protected] ) |
| Supporting the VCSE sector | Expert advice, working with VCSEs in your supply chain, donations of equipment / resources, employee volunteering. |
Participate Projects [email protected] https://participateprojects.org.uk/ |
| Financial support for communities | Providing monetary donations to community organisations and local charities | Community Foundation / GiveBradford Delivery mechanism being finalised www.givebradford.org.uk |
| Homelessness | Supporting homelessness initiatives and organisations | Participate Projects can direct to relevant VCSE organisations [email protected] Bradford Council - [email protected] |
| Health & Wellbeing | Support for employees and communities | Living Well [email protected] https://mylivingwell.co.uk/ |
| Sustainability | Support relating to reducing carbon emissions, active travel, biodiversity initiatives etc is available through different parties depending on the activity – much of this comes regionally or nationally. | For help in navigating this landscape please contact [email protected] for an appropriate connection. |
