Sodexo - Social Impact Report 2023 - Flipbook - Page 28
Supporting SME and VCSE suppliers
57%
of our overall
spend in the UK
and Ireland is with
SME suppliers
Since the launch of our supplier inclusion programme in 2015, we
have been working with MSDUK. The UK’s leading supplier diversity
organisation, which helps and supports ethnic minority businesses
to break through inequalities and barriers in public and private sector
supply chains.
In 2022 we achieved a ‘Best in Class’
rating in their Supplier Diversity
Programme’s benchmark with a score of
80%. This represented significant progress
compared to 2021 when our score was
61% and our rating ‘Progressive’.
We recently hosted our first Partners with Purpose conference, bringing
together 44 supplier partners to discuss how we work together to have
a positive social impact.
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