Making Spend Matter

Building on seven years’ work around the progressive procurement strand of Community Wealth Building (CWB), Preston City Council have for the last three years, been the Project Lead for Making Spend Matter Transfer Network.

Through this Network, Preston has worked with six European cities to help them understand more about their procurement spend – how much they spend, where it goes geographically and who they spend it with in terms of type and size of business (“spend analysis”) – and to use this understanding as a basis to enable their procurements to become more sustainable and have greater impact, for example through supporting smaller businesses and delivering social value (economic, social and environmental benefits).

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