University of Liverpool embraces reuse with Warp It

The contribution of FM operatives is often overlooked, because most of their hard work happens behind the scenes.

Here at Warp It we’ve put together a great deal of information and articles that support your mission to get exactly what you want within your organisation (and your life really), whether it be putting together a plan, goal-setting or providing you with incredible productivity tips straight from the experts.

One part of your tool kit for culture change should be organisational announcements. In this article you can find links to all of our article templates to use in your organisation to help embed reuse. 

Changing culture is hard! Really hard! Before setting off you should develop a communication plan with your comms team. 

As part of the communication plan you should develop regular communications, especially in the first 12-18 months whilst embedding your reuse system into practice.

This collection of templates will help you to promote your furniture reuse program across your organisation. 

Here are some examples of the templates you can find:

• Reuse program launch template
• 'Look how well we are doing' template
• Building Clearance announcement

Why recording mini wins is the path to success!

Sometimes it feels like we are trying to swim in treacle. It all seems too difficult and it feels like we don't have the energy to get through the week. 

In this article I talk about one of the methods that keep me going, keep me happy and keeps me appreciative and persistant.

Read for yourself and see if this technique can help you find balance in your day to day life.

The advice is very simple- I write down my mini wins over the day. It might be just one. When i am feeling like I am in a bit of a dip, and making no progress, I look back over my mini wins for a booster!

You can download a template to help you keep track of your min wins and we are also giving a way a little book called "The Path of the Doer" below.

Each month we scour the web and our knowledge for tips, tricks and tools to help you tackle different challenges and become better! This month we point you to a great guide to build resilience in your kids...(actually it has worked quite well on me too) and we give you a run down of the best free video editing software.

This blog post is all about getting your own way when someone says:

"You can't do that” or "We can't do that."

This article is aimed at making change in organisations but this could be applied to any walk of life.

It's all about the freedom that is gifted by tweaking a request or proposal, with an open and exploratory attitude.

We recently had the pleasure of interviewing Clare Topping, Energy and Sustainability Manager at Northampton General Hospital. Also known as a Green Ninja, Clare’s sheer passion for waste and all things sustainable really shines through and is thoroughly infectious!

This blog post is about how a large organisation is using Warp It to reuse and cascade their IT assets throughout the organisaition , as well as donating externally- to maximise the value of the assets.

Warp It have built relationships with so many of our wonderful customers, none less so than Alan Peddie, who manages the Warp It portal at the University of Edinburgh. We invited Alan to speak frankly about his experience of using Warp It and how it has:

• Redistrinbuting IT assets internally
• Facilitated donation of assets to the charity sector

• Benefited the IT department

• Encouraged refurbishment as well as reuse

• Helped over 500 computers get refurbished instead of recycled externally

• Given Alan a very unique superhero-style nickname!

Warp It welcome Selina Woolcott from the University of Glasgow as she talks about the Glasgow Asset Share Group.

We opened up the floor to Selina and let her speak freely about her experience of using Warp It. It’s really interesting what she had to say. You can consider this an opinion piece from an expert Warp It member!