Event E3M Imagine 2026: Social Economy Models for the Future of Public Services Author: E3M Date: 06.03.26 Tags:Commissioning, partnership, procurement, public services, social enterprise, Social investment, social value No comments Event date: 06.05.2026 | 9.00-16.30 Event location: People’s History Museum, Manchester In the context of some public services not meeting people’s needs, poor outcomes for those most in need of support, and ever-increasing financial pressures, E3M Imagine explores how successful social enterprise and co-operative models can be scaled.
Publication Creating more effective, responsive and sustainable public services: Imagine 2025 Author: Jamie Veitch Date: 18.07.25 Tags:Commissioning, partnership, procurement, public services, social enterprise, Social investment, social value No comments It is a pivotal moment for public services, which face increasing demand and record pressures. Resources are stretched, ‘dysfunctional’ markets have failed many people-centred services, and extractive practices are minimising resources and creating bigger problems for vulnerable people and service providers. We need to reimagine public service delivery. E3M Imagine took place on 7 May 2025 […]
Event Partnerships for Impact Author: E3M Date: 26.04.23 Tags:partnership, public services, social enterprise, social impact No comments Event date: 21.06.2023 | 9.30-17.00 Event location: Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS This one-day seminar explored how social enterprises can work in partnership to achieve impact and transform lives in local communities. This includes social enterprises working with the public and private sectors, with social investors, and with other social enterprises and charities. Increasingly, people are using the language of partnership, social value, collaboration and impact, but […]
Event Webinar: How can social investment support commissioners to improve local services? Author: E3M Date: 14.03.23 Tags:partnership, public services, social enterprise, Social investment No comments Event date: 24.04.2023 | 15.00-16.30 This free webinar was aimed at commissioners from local public authorities, as well as leaders of social enterprises and other public benefit organisations, to explore new and more impactful ways of organising public services. The event explored how social investment can support local public authorities’ work with social enterprises to improve services. Drawing on case […]
E3M’s 2022 Author: E3M Date: 12.12.22 Tags:Commissioning, innovation partnerships, partnership, procurement, social enterprise, Social investment, social value No comments After two years of exclusively online activity, 2022 was the year to resume a more normal programme of events for members of our Social Enterprise Leaders’ and Bold Commissioners’ Clubs, as well as our wider community. Covid’s shadow still loomed large at the start of the year and our first two events were conducted via […]
Event Webinar: Procurement to Partnership – your questions answered Author: E3M Date: 27.06.22 Tags:partnership, procurement, Webinar No comments Event date: 21.09.2022 | 14.00-15.00 Are you a commissioner working on developing new approaches to meeting needs, or a social enterprise or charity with an innovative or a particular proposition? Could a purpose-centred, place-based, outcomes-focussed approach built on collaboration and partnership make a difference? Do you need innovative, long-term, preventative solutions? Could harnessing the inherent social value in public benefit […]
Event Harnessing the full potential of social enterprises for public services and to meet local needs Author: E3M Date: 29.03.22 Tags:Commissioning, partnership, social enterprise No comments Event date: 25.05.2022 | 9.30-17.30 Event location: Clothworkers' Hall, Dunster Court, Mincing Lane, London, EC3R 7AH To book please click here (link generates an email) Join us for this special event in central London aimed at: Commissioners and decision makers in local public authorities Social Enterprise leaders Funders and investors Set against the context of the consequences of the Covid pandemic and the unprecedented economic and social challenges faced by communities […]
PUBLIC BENEFIT PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN’S SERVICES WEBINAR report Author: E3M Date: 19.07.21 Tags:Commissioning, partnership, procurement, public services, social value No comments It is possible to deliver better children’s services at better value for the public purse. Our webinar on 8th July examined partnerships to improve children’s services. The second of a series of webinars in support of our Procurement to Partnership Toolkit, it featured comprehensive descriptions of two partnerships which have already generated extensive benefits. By […]
Launching our Procurement to Partnership Online Toolkit Author: E3M Date: 13.05.21 Tags:Commissioning, partnership, procurement, public services, social value No comments On Tuesday 11th May, we were delighted to launch our online resource, From Procurement to Partnership: a Practical Toolkit For Commissioners. Developed in association with E3M’s partners, Buzzacott, Stone King, The Change Coefficient and Zurich Municipal, together with colleagues from some of our member organisations, Catch22 and Kibble from the Social Enterprise Leaders Club, and […]