NOMS Co-Financing Organisation

Social Enterprise Programme

More than the SumConsortia building

What’s it all about?Primary aim:• To improve the ability of the SE sector to

participate in current and future deliveryPrimary objective:• To test how enterprises can work

together to create a value or supply chain

Why?

• Increase level of SE representation in sub contracts (from 8.5%)

• Various policy contexts including ESF 2007-13 Programme; EU SD strategy; HMG SME strategy; Big Society and Localism; CJ Bill…and feedback from the 2011 engagement events

..and also

• Working prisons• MoJ/NOMS competition strategy• PBR• Green Deal• Enterprise zones• Public Services (Social Value) Bill [Act]• EU Social Business Initiative

What it is

• Represents direct support to the sector• Range of developed entities that can deliver services

but also generate resources from multiple routes• At the core, offender skills and employment

opportunities• Possibly surrounded by other interventions/services• Wider social outcomes – what is the real impact of

this work? • Social, economic, regenerative, environmental,

inclusive impact

What it’s not

• A large scale contract opportunity for individual enterprises to delivers interventions

More specifically

• It’s an investment in the sector to prepare for current or future opportunities

• A partnership with commitment on both sides• Government contracts are not the only way to

deliver on wider agenda• An opportunity for the SE sector to show why its

different• Think about different funding routes, partnerships,

trading and commercial activity • SE at core, but what other sectors could add value?

More than the Sum

• How can the partners create value beyond individual contributions?

• Core commercial or trading activity• Create and be able to demonstrate a compelling

offer to primes, commissioners • Help us work through recognising social value and

impact • Be creative, ambitious and innovative• We will provide the technical and other support to

help, but developing the offer is down to you

No illusions

• Won’t be easy• Not a quick financial fix• Requires investment on both sides• Genuine attempt to work with sector to

help it prepare for opportunities ahead