The core aims that steer this Community of Practice towards meaningful impact and positive change.

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The aim of this Community of Practice is to advance knowledge, research and best practice in the field of Social procurement.

We will do this by:

Knowledge sharing

  • Sharing ideas and innovations 
  • Building increased understanding of each other’s challenges 
  • Problem-solving together 
  • Getting advice from colleagues in a safe and trusting environment
  • Sharing resources
  • Learning from what others are doing
  • Creating a safe space to experiment and critique/reality-check new ideas (peer-review ideas)
  • Round tables/forums on hot topics
  • Benchmarking against best practice

Collaboration

  • Co-designing new tools (such as an evaluative framework/toolkit) 
  • Fostering new cross-sector collaborations between industry, government, social and university sectors

Leadership

  • Collective thought-leadership
  • Setting higher standards
  • Developing a common language (clarity on terminology)
  • Lobbying for change (we are more powerful as a collective voice than isolated voices) 
  • Generating new insights and knowledge through collective research (such as a ‘mapping exercise’)

Networking

  • Connecting with the thought-leaders 
  • Growing membership suggests there is potential value and goodwill