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Anchors Aweigh: How UK Institutions Are Using Their Buying Power to Build Local Business
Social Enterprise

Anchors Aweigh: How UK Institutions Are Using Their Buying Power to Build Local Business

NHS trusts, universities and councils are waking up to their role as economic anchors. From Birmingham to Glasgow, procurement and property are being reimagined as tools for seeding locally owned social enterprises — but policy still lags behind the pilots.