Understanding Public Procurement for Community Energy: Social Value and Community Wealth Building

Seeing is Believing lunchtime webinar: North East and Yorkshire

Join Community Energy England for a webinar focused on helping community energy organisations understand public sector procurement in the North East and Yorkshire. It will explore how effective procurement can recognise social value and ensure strong local delivery partnerships between local authorities and community energy enterprises.

This webinar will share insights into:
– Different types of procurement, i.e. direct award, competitive tenders, frameworks and dynamic purchasing systems.
– How to demonstrate the social impact of community energy initiatives within procurement.
– Approaches to collaborating with local suppliers, local authorities, anchor organisations and community energy organisations.
– Examples demonstrating procurement that results in community wealth building, delivering local economic, social and environmental benefits.

Who’s this for?
Whether you’re involved in community energy delivery, policy, local authorities, local net zero planning or supply chains, this session will help you understand how procurement processes can enable community energy partnerships to build community wealth.

Seeing is Believing: This session is part of the Seeing is Believing North East and Yorkshire programme, delivered by Community Energy England, Ashden and the Centre for Sustainable Energy, and funded by the North East & Yorkshire Net Zero Hub.