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Social value
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Our mission is to produce and support sustainable business practices which have a positive impact on existing, new and evolving communities through added social value.
Fozia Parveen
Head of Social Value & Enterprise
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At Overbury, we aim to produce a real difference to people’s lives, by enhancing the social, environmental and economic wellbeing of those who we work and operate alongside.In 2024, our social value impact included:
These are just a handful of instances of social value creation, we are striving to create more and more opportunities on every project we deliver.
We prioritise local small and medium enterprises for our subcontractors and offer job and training opportunities for local young people and disadvantaged groups, including long-term unemployed individuals and ex-offenders. We participate in the government’s Kickstart scheme, which provides work placements to 16 to 24-year-olds. We put a focus on working with charities in locality to our projects and are even awarded for our work.
Overbury has achieved a Silver accreditation with the Armed Forces Covenant for its contribution to a scheme that ensures current and former military personnel and their families are treated with fairness and respect.
Overbury's approach to social value is flexible. As a client, if you have an existing framework, measurement or partnership, we are happy to contribute and work with you. Equally, we have the capability to research, measure and deliver on social value objectives in-house. We recognise that the needs of the local areas surrounding our projects are different, that's why we take time to figure out what's best.
As a client led business, we do not set rigid internal social value targets across all projects. Instead, we tailor our approach to each project's context, focusing on what will deliver the most meaningful impact for the local community and stakeholders. This allows us to provide a bespoke service, rather than a one size fits all model, ensuring our social value initiatives are relevant, responsive and genuinely beneficial.
However, to ensure we acting as a responsible business, we do advocate each project engages in at least one social value initiative regardless of the client, size and duration. We monitor and report our delivery as a business annually through the Social Value Portal.
Overbury have a total of nine social value managers across our divisions. Their full time role is entirely focused on delivering on social value objectives for our clients, ourselves and the surrounding communities in which we operate.
A major part of our social value strategy is working with grassroot communities around our projects - local charities, community centres and local schools to improve their facilities and generally just lend a helping hand.
It's also important, given that construction has the highest rate of male suicide in any industry, to ensure our staff and the people in our supply chain are happy. We work hard to create a working environment that improves people's wellbeing and provide a service to help individuals struggling.
Overbury works hard to ensure we provide local people in the communities surrounding our projects the opportunity to explore roles within the construction industry. We offer employment/experiences in the form of apprenticeships, internships and work experience to enhance local skills and help address an industry-wide labour supply issue.
We use local trades and services on our projects as much as possible and try to grow their knowledge of social value. We have hosted 'Meet the Buyer' events, supply chain breakfasts and lunch and learns.