University of Liverpool embraces reuse with Warp It

Each month we gather and share useful tips and tools; and this time it’s all about stepping out of your comfort zone.

Why? Well, while staying in your comfort zone usually results in a consistent and steady performance, stepping out of it can create the conditions for optimal performance.

Time, time, time...

When managing a large building clearance, it can often be resource intensive to catalogue exact details and upload a picture of every single asset.

Warp It is not designed to manage assets in the traditional sense, in fact, it was designed to redistribute assets that were surplus to requirements.

However, we’ve found that it’s versatile and that due to the framework of the system, our members are using it for both purposes.

We are pleased to welcome not just one, but two Warp It pioneers for this in depth interview.

Paul Nelson works as the Environmental Sustainability Manager at North Tyneside Council, with Laura Manley assisting him in her role on the Environmental Sustainability Team.

When there are large numbers of items ready to reuse on Warp it, you may want to alter the viewing options. 

We're always taking feedback into account to make the Warp It system even better. 

Warp It’s Founder, Daniel O’Connor, is here to talk about disruption, innovation, and solving problems. Please read on and enjoy his interesting thoughts...

One part of your tool kit for culture change should be emails.

In this article you will find links to all of our email templates for use within your organisation, in order 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 of embedding your reuse system into common practice.

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

Please note: The 6 downloads in the subheadings are different templates to those provided in the free download at the end of this piece.

This article is something different.

This article is me speaking to you personally, sharing a piece of content that I believe will have a huge and immediate positive impact on you. I don’t usually address the Warp It audience in this way, but I feel that this podcast holds such great wisdom that the teachings it provides, if taken on personally by Warp It’s members and partners, could bring welcome rewards.

I think you should read or listen to it because this technique is a great way to help people and stops you saying yes to everything and cluttering up your schedule!

The purpose of this blog post is to help existing customers increase their charity donation capacity in the local area.

As you may know, a large part of Warp It is designed to facilitate the passage of surplus corporate assets into the charity sector, and so far we have helped our customers donate over £2m worth of assets.