Join the collaboration for dual impact in your county!

Here's how it works:

Step 1: Complete this Sign-up Form. The details you provide will only be used for your access to the ecosystem.

Step 2: Once received, we will contact you to confirm your access details and provide a video tutorial for onboarding "how to navigate the ecosystem".

Step 3: Our team will support your onboarding, being on hand for any Q&A.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Are suppliers being forced to enter the ecosystem?

A: No, businesses have a choice to align strategically or not, this is about harnessing the social value for the long-term.

We work with public procurement to help businesses align their existing/planned social value activities into the ecosystem and present this back at tender/contract level. 

Q: What difference is public procurement making here?

A: At a county level, procurement manages hundreds of supplier contracts - each one formalised with commitment to social value.

By adopting a strategic "county pull" approach to social value within all public contracting, it's possible to harness financial and non-financial commitments from suppliers onto a required dual impact - removing silo thinking, tangibly creating sustainable resources needed for community providers.

This is a volume approach, the more suppliers focused upon county-wide needs and provisions, the more impact over the long-term.

Procurement gets to underpin a dual impact, and it costs you nothing. 

Q: As a social enterprise, how does Pluggin make its money and does it make profit to sustain itself?

A: We operate a business membership model which sustains the operations and growth of the ecosystem across each region of the UK.

We deduct nothing from social value agreements committed between businesses and the community providers - unlike the community foundation model which lifts between 15% and 25% towards overheads and running costs.

Q: As a public body we need to be careful when engaging into projects like this, who has carried out due-diligence on Pluggin?

A:  In 2022, Thames Valley Police carried out full due-diligence on us as a company, our directors and shareholders, our digital footprint and activity. 

As we've expanded, diligence has been undertaken by Crown Commercial, the Home Office, Crime Commissioners and police forces.