Coventry City Council social value
Social value aims to make a big difference to people’s lives by helping to address environmental, economic, and social issues impacting our city. Coventry City Council’s Social Value and Sustainability Policy framework aims to support real placed-based benefits that are meaningful, appropriate, and proportionate to the city for our communities and residents.
Economic Development Service
We work with major developments in Coventry to obtain additional value from construction sites in the city. This means that active building contractors go over and above their business as usual to provide extra services to the city by, creating jobs for local people on their sites, working with educational institutions to provide careers advice and tutorials on the industry, working with community organisations to provide much needed local initiatives, working with adult education for skills development and engaging with environmental measures.
Developers are encouraged to develop a social value action plan and to commit to achieving targets set against Themes, Outcomes and Measures (TOMs) model so that the city, residents, communities and business benefit from the development via:
- Employment opportunities
- Engagement with schools and colleges
- Training opportunities
- Apprenticeships
- Local supply chain
- Public health
- Community engagement
- Environmental
As a Marmot City, Coventry City Council do this to provide equal opportunities and tackle economic inequality, fight climate change, improve health and wellbeing, support local businesses and sustainable procurement, ensuring that the city receives maximum benefit. Social Value enables the Council to share the benefits of our goods/services and works with residents, local businesses, and communities to increase the economic prosperity of the city, improve outcomes and tackle inequalities within our communities
During 2024 – 2025 the following was achieved:
- Total construction value £1.2 billion
- 33 major development sites
- £124.5 million total social value committed on site
- 153 local people employed on major development sites
- 32 new job opportunities advertised locally
- 24 apprenticeship starts
- £12 million spent in the local supply chain on contract
- 62 local companies sub-contracted on project
- 9 voluntary and community organisations supported
- £930,400 donations or in-kind contributions to local community projects. This included a £900,000 donation to Grace Academy from McLaren Construction
- 406 hours volunteering time to support local community groups
- 65 hours supporting young people (17 to 24 year oolds) into work
- 9 site visits for schools
- 1,225 car miles saved on projects by sharing schemes and using public transport
The Workplace Wellbeing Award can offer support to employers to increase their productivity through evaluating their employee health and wellbeing.
To find out more contact business@coventry.gov.uk