Social Firms UK

This Guide provides a broad range of information, resources and contacts that you can use to develop a land or building project that is an asset for your organisation and local community. The Guide can get you started, give you helpful pointers while you are planning, suggest ways that you can attract investment or other support, enable you to be more informed when dealing with professionals (lawyers, planners, funders and other consultants) and provide a reference tool with contacts and other sources of information to help you argue your case, plan your project, secure support for it and make it happen. http://locality.org.uk/resources/hold/  

This procurement toolkit aims to assist social enterprises across the UK to bid for and win public sector contracts, and was been published as part of the Government's strategy: 'Social Enterprise: A Strategy For Success'. It begins with deciding whether public sector business is for you, looks at finding opportunities and how to prepare bids and deliver contracts. http://www.s-p-i-n.co.uk/assets/dtitoolkitforsocialenterprise.pdf

This document is intended to provoke better thinking about how wellbeing is procured in the public arena. It assesses the difficulties in the UK with achieving social benefits in public procurement; describes various initiatives aimed at dispelling myths about good and bad practice; and speculates as to how the Green Book and other government guidance does not quite hit the mark in this area. It offers three steps towards embedding better value for money through embracing social, economic and environmental benefits with the aim of achieving improved outcomes for places and people in the UK. Mark Cook is a national expert on procurement and a partner at Anthony Collins Solicitors. www.anthonycollins.com/news/anthony-collins-solicitors-provides-fresh-th...