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.

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3 Priority Cohorts

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3 Target Areas

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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.

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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.

Birmingham shows how Social Value can move from procurement commitment to targeted funding, local delivery, visible evidence and measurable place-based impact.