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| 5th March 2026 |
Clare Riley and Izzy Mackenzie recently attended the launch of the PGL Beyond Impact Report at the House of Commons, in partnership with the Purpose Coalition.
The event provided a valuable opportunity to examine how public procurement, when aligned with responsible and inclusive practices, can enable meaningful social impact. The report evidences the significant role that experiential learning and educational travel can play in supporting social mobility, developing confidence and resilience, and broadening opportunity for young people across the UK.
For SUPC, this engagement forms part of our structured SRM programme. While social value commitments are routinely assessed at tender stage, our focus is on ensuring these commitments translate into measurable, sustained outcomes. The event demonstrated how responsible procurement can actively support suppliers in embedding diversity and inclusion, and community engagement within their operating models.
“We were delighted to be able to share PGL Beyond’s Impact with members of the SUPC team at our recent event with the Purpose Coalition at the Houses of Parliament.
At PGL Beyond and StudyLink Tours, we really believe there is untapped potential in every young person and we can help bring that to life through educational travel. But we have been conscious that social impact is also through our communities, through work programmes, by offering the real Living Wage and career pathways to colleagues, to celebrating the diversity of all who travel and work with us. We also recognise the important role public procurement has made in enabling this work, by embedding responsible procurement, social value, diversity and inclusion within its procurement practices . It is important to us that we all play our part and appreciate the support of our partners through the SUPC to help us to continue to drive forward this work.”
Michelle Evans, Director of Product and Marketing for PGL Beyond
This activity demonstrates how SUPC frameworks can act as enablers of broader institutional objectives, supporting members to meet public procurement expectations around social value, while contributing to tangible societal outcomes. Through proactive supplier engagement and ongoing performance conversations, SUPC will continue to ensure that framework partnerships deliver not only commercial value and compliance assurance, but also measurable social impact aligned with the priorities of the Higher Education sector.