Bradford District Social Value delivery partners summary
To maximise social impact throughout the Bradford District, it is recommended that partners and businesses work collaboratively with our identified social value delivery partners to support them in delivering the most impactful activities in the district.
This is to ensure:
- work is undertaken with partners who understand our communities and its needs the best;
- enables organisations to work collaboratively and effectively build relationships, ensuring sustainable impact;
- ensures resources and capacity are invested through local organisations, and as such maintain ambitions of focusing spend locally.
It is worth noting, for those organisations tendering for work with Bradford Council, working with these partners will help to ensure that tender submissions are more successful.
Outlined below is a quick reference summary of our principal partners by theme.
This is supported by the outline of Bradford District’s priority areas for social, economic or environmental impact. Please refer to the headlines presented in the Social Value Local Needs Analysis document.
| Theme | Example activities | Local delivery partner |
|---|---|---|
| Employment and recruitment | Any recruitment requirements – apprentices, employing local people including unemployed, employing vulnerable groups – including continued support of individuals once recruited | SkillsHouse skillshouse@bradford.gov.uk |
| Employment practices | EDI practices General working practices |
SkillsHouse Business Engagement Services skillshouse@bradford.gov.uk |
| Education | Supporting curriculum and career development through our local schools and colleges | Careers and Technical Education Bradfordcte@bradford.gov.uk |
| Work placements | For T-Level students, school age students, paid / unpaid internships | CTE (work experience) Bradfordcte@bradford.gov.uk SkillsHouse (internships) skillshouse@bradford.gov.uk |
| 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 skillshouse@bradford.gov.uk |
| Construction Academy: construction specific support for learners | Wrap around support for cohorts of students to ensure they are job ready, actively addressing the skills shortage in this area | Bradford College - Bradford District Construction Academy j.wells3@bradfordcollege.ac.uk |
| Supporting the voluntary and community sector | Expert advice, working with VCSEs in your supply chain, donations of equipment / resources, employee volunteering. |
Participate Projects info@participateprojects.org https://participateprojects.org.uk |
| Financial support for communities | Providing monetary donations to community organisations and local charities | Community Foundation / GiveBradford www.givebradford.org.uk |
| Digital inclusion | Provision of hardware for the digitally excluded, supporting access to broadband, upskilling individuals | sharon.saunders@bradford.gov.uk |
| Homelessness | Supporting homelessness initiatives and organisations | Participate Projects can direct to relevant VCSE organisations info@participateprojects.org Bradford Council - hiron.miah@bradford.gov.uk |
| Health and Wellbeing | Support for employees and communities | Living Well workplaces@mylivingwell.co.uk 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 social.value@bradford.gov.uk for an appropriate connection. |
