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What are the vital signs of your local area?

Local charitable giving is experiencing a resurgence, and donors have become increasingly interested in what's ...

Economic Development Local Government

Public spending: it ain’t just about efficiencies

Procurement should not be a narrow corporate function restricted to local government, nor is localism ...

Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Why don’t universities spend more locally?

Given their purchasing power and local profile, are universities really fulfilling their economic potential? My ...

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The value of buying small and locally

Of the £4.1bn spent by authorities nationally with local small firms, £2.6bn of additional benefit ...

Economic Development Good Local Economics Local Government

Council supply chains can help small business

For procurement to be more effectively linked to economic development, local authorities should be looking ...

Communities Housing Regeneration

Sustainable procurement in social housing: are we there yet?

The social housing sector’s approach to sustainable procurement can be insular and driven by regulation. ...

Good Local Economics

Getting the measure of social value

Julian Cox, Matt Bowen and Oliver Kempton reveal how a new model combining existing methodologies ...

Communities Economic Development Finance Good Local Economics Local Government Regeneration

Indy Johar: reinventing the corner shop

Indy Johar is co-founder of architectural practice 00:/. Through the launch of projects including the ...

Finance

Buying for good

Could collective procurement be the way forward? Jenny Howarth thinks so

Finance

Seeding and scaling

Procurement as a tool for achieving the best public policy outcomes founded on an understanding ...