Thursday 15th June 2023
The book, entitled Vitalising Purpose: The Power of the Social Enterprise Difference in Public Services has been produced by E3M, an initiative that supports a group of leaders from the largest and most successful UK social enterprises that trade in public service markets.
Vitalising Purpose: The Power of the Social Enterprise Difference in Public Services is available for free on the E3M website, as well as for sale on Amazon.
Vitalising Purpose investigates how partnerships between public authorities and social enterprises can make a difference to how public services are provided, and to people’s lives.
As well as Julian’s contribution, there are also pieces from Professor Carolyn Wilkins OBE, Richard Selwyn, Barry Fletcher, Rachel Law, Nathan Atkinson, June O’Sullivan MBE, Sandra Hamilton, Mark Heasman, Naomi Hulston, Heidi Fisher MBE, Tej Dhami, Eddie Finch, Richard Fairchild, Fay Selvan and Gainsborough resident Vanessa.
Public benefit lawyer Julian has been especially involved in the development and maturing of social enterprise, social finance, social value, and social impact investment and measurement and their application to public policy for many decades.
Julian says: “Vitalising Purpose is based on 10-years working with E3M to promote social enterprise as the optimal model for public services – driven by public value purpose, through purpose aligned collaborative partnerships between providers, commissioners, funders and communities”.
Vitalising Purpose follows:
• “The Art of the Possible in Public Procurement” (2016), of which Julian was co-author, which highlights the procurement rules, when properly applied, as purposive, permissive, flexible and facilitating;
• the related promotion of Innovation Partnerships and Community Alliance Contracts; and
• the E3M “Procurement to Partnership Toolkit”, for commissioners, also on the E3M website.
Vitalising Purpose was unveiled at Buzzacott on Thursday June 15 and has already been well received.
It contains a foreword written by Lord Victor Adebowale CBE.
Jamie Veitch, lead author and editor of the book Vitalising Purpose, said:
"Julian Blake has long argued that commissioning services for citizens is fundamentally different to commercial purchasing by public authorities; that public value should be its raison d’être. Many commissioners and social entrepreneurs are already stringing every sinew to develop collaborative partnerships after Julian showed them the ‘Art of the Possible’ in his own influential publication a few years ago.
“Vitalising Purpose builds on that foundational work, and the efforts of so many people who use, deliver and commission services to show all ‘custodians of local democracy’ that there is a ’social enterprise difference’ – better outcomes for people and places – in public service delivery.”
Partnerships are proving key to making a difference and Stone King is holding a series of webinars looking to help organisations wanting to collaborate and create meaningful impact in the community.
Organised by the Bath-headquartered firm’s Business & Social Enterprise Sector, the Collaboration Series takes place online starting on Thursday June 22 with the topic Collaborative Community Partnerships, followed by a webinar on Local Skills Improvement Plans (LSIPs) on Wednesday June 23.
The series then returns in the autumn with the topic Collaboration at work through employee engagement practices on Tuesday 7 November, with the final webinar taking place in the new year.
More information and details on booking here.
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