Community benefit proposals

we help you to develop and deliver community benefit proposals around a range of themes

The Need: Organisations can offer and deliver social value by ensuring that their activity brings wider benefits for local communities. To do this, there is a need to be innovative and creative but also to be realistic about the affordability and deliverability of proposals.

Our Response: FSquared supports organisations to develop community benefit proposals around a range of themes such as employment & training, supply chain, art, health, equality, diversity & inclusion and digital inclusion. We support organisations by:

1. carrying out research into a local area to see what sorts of proposals might be favourable in relation to current initiatives and regeneration activity.
2. generating ideas for community benefit proposals – through creativity workshops.
3. testing these ideas with procurers, stakeholders and communities – to get buy in and to refine and improve the ideas.
4. developing the ideas into outline business case proposals which illustrate deliverability and affordability .

Our community benefit proposals are often developed at bid stage when the competitive dialogue process lends itself to the testing out of ideas. After the bid stage, we are on hand to support the implementation of our proposals. Our approach is always to develop proposals that are tangible, deliverable and affordable. We also ensure that your proposals are locally specific and that they build on existing initiatives and activity.

The Benefits: There are a number of benefits to working with us to deliver your community benefit proposals. Firstly there are benefits for the procuring authority whose procurement requirements are met (and often exceeded) and who therefore get added value from their procurement activity. Secondly there are benefits for our private sector partner because the specific examples of innovation and a commitment to maximising social value can be fed back into the organisation’s corporate responsibility approach strengthening the organisation’s corporate citizenship credentials. Lastly, but most importantly, by ensuring that investment, regeneration and development maximise social value, our proposals benefit people and places in local communities.



Case study

Wigan Joint Services Centre




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