Attend this workshop if you are interested in maximising the reuse of furniture and equipment within your organisation, and between other agencies and organisations.

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Agenda

10.00 Welcome: Teas and coffees

Session 1 Buy in and making progress

10.20  How to stimulate innovation in FM, procurement and sustainability

The host draws from numerous sustainability projects, to give you top tips on making innovation normal.

10.40 5 Barriers to Reuse and how to overcome!

Huw Evans,  Environmental Manager from Keele University has been on a reuse journey. In this session he discusses the barriers he has faced getting reuse practices adopted and gives you his top tips for success.

11.00 How to get senior buy in and funding by being creative: 

From the complex and innovative to the simple no brainers, Fiona Daly from NHS Improvement talks about how to get projects funded and delivered. 

11.20 Breakout session. How can you get commitment from varying stakeholders?

How to get procurement, FM, senior managers, capital development , operational or general staff excited about reuse. What are their hooks? What are their objections?  What do they struggle with on a day to day basis? Each team will be given a persona to explore from the above. You will come up with ideas on how to get them to adopt reuse practices. 

Session 2 Increasing participation in reuse

11.40 "We've always done it this way!" How to change practices with direct action!

Alexander Ford from Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust talks about how to make reuse normal through various techniques and tools including some you would not think of at first!

11.35 Domestic operatives are your secret weapon to maximise reuse!

Speaker TBC talks about how after a stuttering start reuse is being adopted across their NHS Trust.  This is a story of a turn around and making the case for 2nd and 3rd year investment.

11. 50  12 quick actions you can take to increase participation.

Daniel from Warp It gives 10 tips that you can take which take less than 2 hours to pull together but have a massive impact on particpation. 

12.20 Lunch

12.40 Innovation for procurement, FM, waste and sustainability

Hosted by Mark Shayler

When it comes to reuse, waste or sustainability...What gives you the most headache at work? What is always on your to do list? What is the most expensive action? What takes the most time? What makes you say "There must be an easier way?". 

In this break out session you will split into groups relating to your own area of expertise. Waste, FM, Procurement, Sustainability etc .

We will explore the common problems that you face in pursuing your day to day objectives. We will identify common areas of pain and you will start to generate some ideas to ease that pain.

We will then group assess the most fruitful ideas for futher development. 

13.45  The way forward: How to set up a city and region wide sharing network. 

Using Warp It case studies as a guide, Daniel wraps up the event with an action plan on how to facilitate more collaboration between the main players in your city and region. You will leave this session with a clear way forward. 

14.00 Conculsion, discussion and networking