David Herne, Director of Public Health
Darren Knight, Chief Officer, Bolton CVS

Bolton 2030 – setting the scene
• Bolton 2030 – ‘our strategy for Bolton’
• 6 key outcomes – starting well, living well, ageing well,
prosperous, clean and green, and strong and distinctive.
• Strategic fit with developments at GM on social value
• Starting a journey to develop a ‘social value’ movement
in Bolton in support of these outcomes.
• Bolton Social Value Partnership – council; CVS; CCG;
Bolton at Home; NHS FT

Where are we now,?
• In Bolton there is already lots happening around Social
Value e.g.:
– vast majority of council spend is with suppliers or
branched suppliers in GM and about a third of spend
is with local SMEs.
– vast majority of spend with these local suppliers
results in permanent local jobs
– 2/3 of Bolton suppliers have an active environmental
management strategy and half of them actively
measure carbon emissions
– 1/3 of suppliers actively encourage employees to
undertake voluntary and community activities
But we can do better if we have a joined up social value
pledge

Social value in Bolton now…
Keoghs working closely with the Team Bolton Partnership:
•Demystify the legal profession amongst all residents and
inspire young people from all backgrounds to enter the
profession
•Broadened recruitment drives to diversify workforce to be
representative of Bolton community
Social value outcomes:
• Since January 2017, recruited 21 local unemployed
residents and looking to do more; a resident who had
previously been out of work for 3 years said:
• One resident had been out of work for 3 years and could
see no way out but now feels valued, respected and is
contributing:
•

Social value in Bolton now…
“Work is going great! I am thoroughly enjoying it. The
company is amazing and I'm really proud to work for them.
I am exceeding my targets and I am receiving high praise
for my contribution.
Since I started, I have remained at the top of the leader
board out of the 5 people on my team. I am super chuffed
with myself”

A call to action … develop a Social
Value Pledge for Bolton?
• Bolton’s Social Value Partnership will lead our pledge to
embed, deliver and demonstrate social in Bolton:
– Need to revisit and understand our baseline; set
ambitious targets that can be evidenced and which
will create more social value.
– Ensure that leaders in all our key ‘anchor’ institutions
understand and sign up to this pledge.
– Commit to learning from our colleagues in GM who
may be at different stages in their journey.
– Commit to raise the profile of social value in Bolton
and actively celebrate where it helps us to realise our
Bolton 2030 ambitions.

Social value delivers!
Light Cinema, worked with Team Bolton Partnership:
•Ring fenced vacancies to local unemployed residents prior
to the opening of their new cinema
Social value outcomes:
•19 of the 30 new employees at the Light Cinema were
taken on through the Team Bolton Partnership. The
majority of the employees were customer service
assistants – 2 have now progressed to supervisor roles,
and other members of staff have been promoted to
projectionist and barista roles.
•Ashley had been in and out of work and had not managed
to settle in a role– through this process he got a
permanent job in an area he was really interested in:

“The Open Day and training allowed my confidence to
build- getting to know what my employer expected from me
and them to know what I was like before we started work.
The course offered transferable skills and knowledge that
would be needed in employment.”
Ashley, who has now been promoted to supervisor, said:
“If it wasn't for this opportunity I can honestly say I wouldn't
know where my life would be right now. It has been a bit of
a blessing.”

Proper progress.
Proper intent.

Social Value ‘pumps up’ the tyres
of the commissioning cycle…

Some cracking examples…
…and the next steps!