Procurement Services

Training & Employment Services

Consultancy Services

Delivering Social ValueJan Agger

Director of Social Strategy

We are a social enterprise that promotes public procurement as

a means to save money and generate social value

Set up in 2002 by 7 Social Landlords

Fusion21 is social enterprise that improves lives and

communities through our approach to public procurement, training and employment

Outcomes

No reliance on public fundingSelf-sustaining business modelGrown from 7 to over 100 different clientsDeveloped “Intelligent Procurement” model

Intelligent Procurement

Procurement Services

Training & Employment Services

Generating Savings through Collaborative Procurement

Developing Skills and Employment

Opportunities with Communities

CORE AIM

Generating social value

through procurement

Our aim is to use our experience and business model to help housing, public and third sector organisations create the conditions where it is easier to:-

- Deliver efficiency savings- Control costs- Train people- Create jobs- Generate social value- Develop and share best practice

- for the benefit of all stakeholders and local communities

In Summary

Our values

We value:-Our Member & Clients: Delivering efficiency whilst improving communities & livesOur Business: Driving innovation, integrity, professionalism & social value Our People: Empowering them to achieveOur Partners: Succeeding together

Our behavioursOur People are:-• Positive, flexible, professional and approachable• Fair, transparent, open and honest• Ambitious, creative, innovative and focused• Loyal, reliable, respectful and committed

Values & Behaviours

Model benefits

.......... a model that works

• Procured over £750m with clients• Generated over £85m cash savings for clients• Created over 1361 jobs for local unemployed• Helped thousands of local people with training• Directly recruited trainees to our own staff • c£236m injected back into the local economies• Multi-award winning business model• National, regional and local coverage

Fusion21 Training & Employment Clauses…

• 1% Levy paid by Contractors / Suppliers

• Part of contractual obligations for contractors

• 1.5 jobs per £1m contract awarded

Fusion21Skills Programmes..…

• Work with member to discuss opportunities and how to involve their communities

• Fusion21 deliver the recruitment & selection service for all jobs created

• Pre employment Training• Bespoke offer to suit the Member and their

communities • Collaboration

Improving Communities..…

• Job Clubs• Funded programmes for unemployed• Training Courses for RSL’s & Contractors• Inclusive model of recruitment – Reducing re-

offending; Prison skills, OLASS 4, Industries in prison

• Partner with local agencies• Employer Pool• DWP Innovation fund – ‘New Horizons’ (NEETs

and YO)

Initiatives – what we need to do

• Help bring people nearer the labour market

• New Horizons – Qualifications leading to paid work

• NEET’s, Young Offenders, Care Leavers

• C&G Construction, C&G Employability

• Jobs

• PBR Contract – DWP innovation Fund

Initiatives – what we need to do• Building Skills – Shared Apprenticeship Scheme• Partnership with CITB Construction Skills

WHY..............

• Lack of longevity in order books• Difficult to employ within a redundancy culture• Smaller companies don’t always engage• Wealth of experience for the learner• Full support for the learner• Significant savings normally associated with

recruitment• Pre employment training

Questions?