The Cloud Crew (thecloudcrew.io) is a social value-led employability initiative designed to create meaningful routes into digital careers for individuals who face barriers to employment.
Through structured work experience placements, employer engagement, mentoring, and exposure to real-world technology projects, The Cloud Crew enables participants to gain practical workplace experience while building confidence, professional networks, and the skills required to secure sustainable employment. The community is particularly focused on supporting priority groups including long-term unemployed individuals, NEETs (young people not in education, employment or training), care leavers, people with disabilities, career returners, and residents from disadvantaged or underrepresented communities.
Aligned to the Social Value Model and local authority procurement priorities, The Cloud Crew directly contributes towards employability, skills development, and reducing inequalities. By providing access to meaningful work experience and industry connections, participants gain valuable insight into career pathways within the technology sector while employers help address the digital skills gap and support inclusive economic growth. The programme delivers measurable outcomes including increased confidence and successful transitions into employment.
For organisations bidding through Major Account Contracts (MACs), Crown Commercial Service frameworks, and local authority contracts, The Cloud Crew supports key social value commitments around creating employment opportunities, supporting those furthest from the labour market, and promoting social mobility. Activities can be mapped against TOMs, local authority social value frameworks, and specific evaluation criteria relating to skills, employment, and community wealth building. The initiative provides quantifiable evidence of social impact, enabling organisations to demonstrate delivery against contractual social value targets while creating lasting benefits for individuals and communities.
Ultimately, The Cloud Crew is more than a work experience programme. It is a UK-wide initiative that connects local talent with industry opportunities, supports those most in need of employment support, and delivers lasting social value through improved employability, economic inclusion, and long-term career progression within the digital sector.
The transformacy Social Value Network is a growing community of organisations — social enterprises, charities, training providers, community groups and purpose-led businesses — each delivering genuine social value in their field and their region.
Think of it as a trusted pool of partners. When organisations make social value commitments — through a Public Sector tender, a Section 106 agreement, or their own strategy — they need credible partners to help deliver them on the ground. The network exists to connect that need with the organisations best placed to meet it.
Every member is chosen for the quality and authenticity of the social value they create, so the network stays something people can genuinely rely on — a shortcut to trusted, capable partners rather than an open directory. Each member has a profile setting out what they do, who they serve and where they operate, and displays the transformacy Social Value Network member badge as a mark of their place in the community.
Being part of the transformacy Social Value Network means:
Visibility — a profile within a trusted, curated network seen by organisations actively looking for social value partners.
Opportunity — the chance to be called upon when our clients and contacts need delivery partners for their social value commitments.
Recognition — the transformacy Social Value Network member badge to display on your own website, signalling your place in a trusted community.
Connection — a place within a growing community of like-minded, purpose-led organisations.