Partnership working and benefits of scale

For the attention of strategic partnerships

For every member joining www.warp-it.co.uk or expressing a very positive interest before the end of this financial year a 5 % cumulative discount will be applied to all member’s subscription rate, up to a maximum of 50% off.

That means if 5 members join- a 25% discount is applied to all members. If 10 members join a 50% discount is applied to all members.

Standard price list here: www.warp-it.co.uk/register

Graduate Placements

We are all pushed for time.  It is easy to push those “nice to do” projects to the back of the priority list. Then they never get done. 

Graduates and University students find it hard to break the cycle of “not having enough experience" and not getting on the first rung of the ladder.  A good way of getting good quality project work and giving students meaningful experience is to offer placements. Some of our interns wrote a blog about their experience here. Make sure you interview for the position- you need a good student. 

The best way of finding students is to get in touch with the local University career centre or alternatively get in touch with the relevant university academic who covers sustainability or waste management . Academics are desperate for work placements after Christmas to deliver May- Aug. Change Agents UK are also worth looking at.

True Sustainable Procurement- don’t buy stuff you don’t need?

All manufactured resources have embedded carbon. If you are buying "stuff" that is already surplus or underused in your organisation- then you are not purchasing sustainably. The sharing economy is booming- eBay (sell) and freecycle (give away) are the Daddies of the sector- but more recently Ecomodo allows householders to rent their goods out to Neighbours.

How can this principle be applied to large organisations in an easy way to encourage participation and subsequently resource efficiency?  I recently launched a sharing platform for organisations- check it out: www.warp-it.co.uk wasteaction.posterous.com/true-sustainab...ent-dont-buy-stuff-y 

WARPit in 100 words (ish!)

• www.warp-it.co.uk  is an online resource redistribution portal for organisations- like a corporate  Ebay/Freecycle- Or Noel Edmonds swap shop if you are a bit older!

 

• Makes it easy for staff with underused or unwanted items to find others who require- saving waste disposal and improving space efficiency.

 

• Makes it easy for staff who want to buy new, to check whether anyone else inside organisations has resource spare- avoiding unnecessary procurement

 

• Saving significant resources for organisations- Sunderland CC are saving average of £5.5K a month and Northumberland CC achieved payback in 8 days.

 

• Facilitates the legal redistribution (donation/loaning/selling/renting) of unwanted/ underused assets between all  staff and all organisation estate (including schools etc).

 

• Also possible to redistribute to partner organisations (eg  public sector, charity) for reciprocal sharing- creating whole region sharing network.

 

• Brings benefits to procurement, Facilities Management, finance, schools and sustainability.

 

• More benefits here: www.warp-it.co.uk/benefits

Brief overview here: http://prezi.com/hulwixhn51mw/warp-it-brief-overview/ 

Or if your IT system does not have Flash try here, hit “start presentation”: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nkFwYc0WhGFI1WMW6WcVA1C0y-DLVQnS-tSz3nijZMo/edit