Highlights include:
- Keynote Masterclass: “Building Effective Partnerships” with Kate Welch OBE, offering practical insights into how businesses and social enterprises can create collaborations that deliver measurable business and community value.
- Meet the Supplier 1:1s: direct introductions to regional social enterprises offering goods and services across multiple sectors.
- Networking: connect with peers embedding social value in their procurement strategies and discover how it is driving innovation and resilience.
By attending, your organisation will expand its supplier base with mission-driven enterprises, discover fresh approaches to innovation and problem-solving, and strengthen its resilience through more diverse and values-aligned partnerships. In doing so, you’ll also be part of a regional movement making procurement more inclusive and impactful.
This event is part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science via the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account, in association with the Campaign for Social Science. The ESRC Festival of Social Science is an annual celebration of the social sciences and a key element of ESRC’s commitment to promote awareness of UK social science research to new audiences.
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