YEME
From Tender Commitment to Real-world Impact
How Birmingham translated a Digital Inclusion priority into targeted supplier funding, local delivery, youth employment pathways and measurable outcomes.
3 Priority Cohorts
3 Target Areas
End-to-end Delivery Model

Understand Need
AI-driven community needs intelligence

Align Supplier Action
Supplier portal and contribution commitments

Manage Funding
Community fund (Yeme Community Capital)

Deliver Impact
Local partners activity
Understanding priority areas
Yeme identified where Digital Inclusion need was most concentrated across three priority cohorts and target areas.
Aligning need to supplier contributions
Supplier commitments, local spend, SME participation and funding contributions are guided through the Supplier Portal and aligned to the agreed priority areas.
Delivering impact on the ground
NEET Youth Content Creating
From excluded to paid creators
Elderly Community Cafe
Turning isolation into connection.
Care Leavers Football
Creating belonging where it’s missing.
Civic Engagement
Lived experience driving policy.
Measuring place-based change
Every activity is recorded, attributed and measured against place-based change.
Contractual Outputs
TOMs-aligned activity that can be reported and attributed back to suppliers
Place-level Change
Improvement in provision, access, stakeholder capacity and activity where communities are underserved.
System Outcomes
Longer-term change across wider pressures such as isolation, health, social care, education, employment and community resilience.
Verified impact, captured through real stories
Short-form video evidence gives suppliers, councils and communities a visible record of what changed.