You made the commitment.We make it happen.

We take the social value commitments you’ve already made, like apprenticeships, placements, community hours, and local spend, and turn them into a plan you can actually run. It’s built on real relationships across Essex and experience on both sides of the procurement table.

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The commitments aren’t the problem. The delivery model is.

Without a plan behind them, social value commitments start to slip, and it tends to show up in the same three ways. Local Social Value can help you fix all of them.

Constantly chasing opportunities
Placements, community hours and local activity get pieced together as you go, rather than planned from the start.
Gaps in your quarterly reports
When reporting comes round, what you’ve delivered doesn’t match what you committed to.
Falling behind schedule
Without a clear programme, delivery drifts, and catching up gets harder the longer it’s left.

Three moves, in order.

A clear route from the commitments in your contract to a plan your team can deliver.

01
Diagnose
A health check of the commitments you’ve made, and a gap analysis showing where you stand against each one.
02
Design
A social value strategy and the programme behind it, shaped around what you’ve committed to deliver.
03
Mobilise
Embedding the plan in your organisation, with the local relationships in place to run it.

Rosalva Johnston

Founder & Principal Consultant

Most consultants know procurement. Others have done delivery. I’ve done both.

I founded Local Social Value to turn social value commitments into visible results for local people and places. I know where good intentions stall, and how to turn them into practical action that communities can see and businesses can deliver.

The buyer’s side
At Essex County Council, evaluating social value proposals in high-value public sector tenders.
The supplier’s side
Across Essex and South London, helping SMEs, large organisations and public partners deliver contracts.