Optimising Commercial Waste Services: Supporting Welsh Authorities in Adapting to New Workplace Recycling Regulations Local Partnerships helps Welsh authorities improve cost recovery and waste services under new workplace recycling regulations, offering a toolkit for best practices. As the waste management landscape evolves and we move towards a zero waste society, the introduction of the Workplace […]
Local Partnerships ensured Cardiff City Council received its fair share of income and cost protections after the contractor expanded the energy recovery facility’s capacity. Local Partnerships worked with Cardiff City Council to ensure the council benefited from a proposed change sought by its energy recovery facility contractor, which could otherwise have resulted in unshared profits […]
Local Partnerships supported the Welsh Government in a programme to address phosphate-related challenges that were stalling social housing developments across Wales. By working closely with Natural Resources Wales, Welsh Water, developers, and planning authorities, we tackled site specific issues that threatened to delay new housing projects. As a result, from an initial list of 68 […]
Local Partnerships is excited to share with you this year’s Impact Report 2023 – 2024.
This year we have created this microsite within our website to help you navigate and read through the whole report. Please use the links below to download the PDF or access the microsite.
The Welsh Government Energy Service (The Energy Service) supports the Welsh Government’s Net Zero ambitions by helping the public sector and community enterprises reduce energy use, generate renewable energy, and cut carbon emissions. They provide technical, commercial, and procurement advice for projects in six areas: regional energy planning, building energy systems, renewable energy, ultra-low emission […]
Ynni Cymru energy seminars are now available to watch on demand. Delivered by the Ynni Cymru team in partnership with Local Partnerships, these free seminar replays will help you understand today’s energy systems and explore how we can work together to design a system fit for the future.
As part of the Cooperation Agreement, Plaid Cymru and the Welsh Government share an ambition to establish a publicly owned energy company for Wales – Ynni Cymru. The company’s mission is to expand community-owned renewable energy generation and support the growth of Smart Local Energy Systems across Wales.
By accessing the Ynni Cymru energy seminar replays, you can catch up on expert insights into energy generation, distribution, and management – and see how your community or organisation can play a part in building a cleaner, more resilient energy future.
Please note: the first approx 15 mins of each video is in Welsh, where Rhys Horan gives an overview of Ynni Cymru (and translation was offered in the live webinar). After that, Dr Jeff Hardy presents in English.
The Welsh Government has an ambition to establish a publicly owned energy company for Wales, Ynni Cymru, to expand community owned renewable energy generation and support the development of Smart Local Energy Systems across Wales. To support this ambition, the Ynni Cymru team and Local Partnerships have arranged a series of free virtual energy seminars that […]
Local Partnerships worked with the Public Health Wales team to support them in reviewing and rolling out the Greener Primary Care Wales Framework & Award Scheme, which was launched in June 2022. Local Partnerships climate team collaborated with Greener Champions to raise awareness of the Framework & Awards across Wales. Wales was the first parliament […]
Welsh Government and local authorities achieve milestone: largest-ever collaborative procurement of electric vehicles delivers £660k savings Welsh Government, working with Welsh local authorities, has successfully concluded the first ever collaborative procurement on this scale, for electric vehicles. The procurement covered 241 vehicles and will save the public purse over £660k. Ambition to decarbonise the public […]
Our FREE CEO Blueprint is designed to enable CEOs to feel confident they have all the bases covered when it comes to council commerciality. Download below.
The CEO Blueprint supports CEOs of all council types and sizes when overseeing commercial activity irrespective of the end outcomes they are seeking to deliver. The key purpose is to maximise the chances of success.
Local Partnerships has helped the Welsh Government achieve its Programme for Government commitment of delivering integrated health and care centres across Wales to drive closer integration of health and care on the ground. Our team drafted and developed business cases according to Welsh Government Better Business Case guidelines. With colleagues in Welsh Government and Welsh […]
Aberystwyth University has applied the Local Partnerships’ Re:fit framework to increase energy efficiency across its buildings, including installation of a solar farm, which will reduce carbon emissions by 500 tonnes annually. Local Partnerships exclusively provides support to users of the Re:fit framework nationwide. Client Context Aberystwyth University is a public research university in Wales, with […]
Local Partnerships is working with the Welsh Government to lead the delivery of Ynni Cymru, a new energy initiative focused on renewable energy generation at the community level. Ynni Cymru is a new publicly-owned energy company for Wales, that gives local people and communities control over local resources and renewable energy initiatives and focuses on […]
We are thrilled to announce the launch the Impact Report 2022/2023. It celebrates the successes we’ve helped our clients achieve over the last year.
As a key interface between local and central government, we provide expert advice and practical resources alongside project and programme delivery support, enabling public services to thrive. As an in-house consultancy jointly owned by the LGA, HM Treasury and Welsh Government, we work solely for councils and combined authorities, central government departments, the Welsh Government and other public sector bodies such as the NHS.
Read four of our RE:FIT: Case Studies about how Re:fit framework has helped local authorities, Cambridgeshire County Council, Huntingdonshire District Council, Sir Harry Smith Community College and Historic buildings City of Cardiff Council.
Energy efficiency and financial savings through Re:fit
RE:FIT is a procurement framework and support service available to all public sector organisations in the UK.
Since 2009 it has been helping organisations to deliver “spend-to-save” environmental retrofit projects that both improve their buildings and, importantly, make substantial guaranteed financial savings.
City of Cardiff Council (CCC) is using Re:fit in order to optimise the energy efficiency of certain properties, improve their building performance, reduce CO2 emissions and save money. Re:fit was seen as an ideal approach to tackle historic buildings and demonstrate the ability to make cost effective improvements, paid for through energy savings, even on […]