Liverpool firm tells construction sector how it can win work and help local communities

Baltic Triangle-based CIF (Construction Impact Framework) provides public sector organisations with a fully-compliant route to construction skills with partner companies in the building industry

Sara Lawton, director of Construction Impact Framework addresses the Liverpool event

 

More than 60 businesses from across the North West gathered in Liverpool to hear how a Merseyside company is tackling deprivation and homelessness in Liverpool and Manchester.

Baltic Triangle-based CIF (Construction Impact Framework) provides public sector organisations with a fully-compliant route to construction skills with partner companies in the building industry.

As part of their contracts with CIF. they are given the opportunity to fight deprivation in hard-hit inner-city communities. With every contract CIF ploughs back 33% of its profits into community or charitable services.

The £200m EU compliant construction framework, led by former Merseyside Woman of the Year Sara Lawton, has supported more than 3,000 vulnerable people across the North West and generated over £500,000 in social value.

At the same time, it’s also grown its supply partner businesses by 3.5% and invested £100,000 into projects/initiatives that help to reduce pressures on frontline public-sector services.

During her welcome speech to supply partners at Blackburne House, Ms Lawton laid out her plans for the next two years, saying: “Working with communities is at the heart of the CIF ethos.

“And even though like every business we need to make a profit to survive, my message to other businesses in the North West is you can make a profit and contribute a bit more to your community.”

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