The Academy

• What is it? A half day interactive workshop to identify opportunities to apply the circular economy to your existing local authority policies, programmes and projects
• Who is it for? Assistant Directors, project managers and policy/ programme officers from one local authority. Numbers will be limited to a maximum of 20 attendees per workshop
• What are the benefits? Engage multi-disciplinary teams across directorates to identify and prioritise high-impact circular economy interventions and develop an action plan for implementation
• What’s included in the practical workshop? Participants will be introduced to the circular economy and its benefits and will learn how to apply it to everyday business activities in a practical way. You will brainstorm how your local authority is already applying circular economy business models, before identifying and prioritising new circular economy actions tailored to deliver on local priorities. ReLondon experts will work with you to identify the first steps to implement the prioritised actions. Participants will leave the workshop with a list of actionable circular economy projects and interventions, which support the development of your existing priorities, action plans and policy initiatives.

Register your interest

• What is it? A full day or two half day interactive cross-local authority workshop focused on applying circular economy approaches to procurement and facilities management. We will be developing other modules for roll out in 2022 – please complete this short webform to tell us which other module topics would be of interest to you
• Who is it for? Heads of procurement and high spend category contract managers
• What are the benefits? Deepen your understanding of how to apply the circular economy to specific procurement activities and processes; develop a clear action plan to apply the learnings; and network with procurement officers from other local authorities
• What’s included in the procurement module? Participants will learn how circular approaches relate to sustainable procurement practice and will work to develop an internal business case for long term change in practice. ReLondon experts will support participants to identify and prioritise circular procurement actions and pilots, through a spend and procurement policy review. Participants will also be introduced to the key principles of circular procurement and will leave the workshop with a clear action plan for applying these principles across the procurement process – from planning and tendering, to monitoring and reporting.

Register your interest

For now, the training sessions will be delivered virtually using Zoom and Miro (an online whiteboard). The training sessions will be led by circular economy specialists from ReLondon, with contributions from external experts, practitioners, and training professionals.

• CE101 webinar: Free
• Practical workshop: £4,000 (for maximum 20 people)
• Procurement and facilities management module: £400 per person