Community Benefits website/portal project

Description

The Integrated Employer Engagement team at Capital City Partnership is seeking to develop a web tool for promoting access to community benefits for communities, charities, voluntary groups, education, and employability providers across the 6 local authorities ("LAs") within the ESES CRD. Community benefits involves using public sector spending to secure additional positive outcomes from suppliers. This is tiered appropriate to the level of spend, but for example may include the recruitment of young local apprentices, school visits, evidencing use of local SME supply chains, sponsorship or donations in kind to community recreation groups or staff volunteering days such as tree planting or beach cleans. This portal is intended to be a fully public-facing resource from which local communities can submit specific requests for community benefits (‘Requests’) to suppliers, and a matching tool for suppliers to causes within the area of their activities. Additionally, it is envisioned the page will act as a general forum to update the public around progress and community benefits delivered within the ESES CRD.