Using public procurement powers to create sustainable community jobs
- Credit: David Hare
A campaigning organisation that fights for local authorities to use their purchasing powers to help the homeless and disadvantaged in the East End has been given a Queen’s Award.
Aspire Community Works, set up in Bethnal Green’s Minerva community centre, is one of 205 UK organisations receiving one of the Queen s Awards for Enterprise.
Beaming with delight at getting Queen s Award
- Credit: David Hare
The organisation reaches out to people outside the labour market with training and jobs with “real living wages”.
Aspire provides estate management services to local authorities, housing associations and charities and competes with the private sector through public contracts.
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