University of Liverpool embraces reuse with Warp It

Every month we share a few things that we’ve spotted that inspire, amuse and entertain.

Do you need to get people on board with your reuse project? You can maximise your time efficiency by presenting your ideas as flow or process diagrams.

We look at a furniture reuse project, but it could be any project or idea you want to convey.

This quick and informative guide is going to show you one of the best tricks for finding a match for your surplus assets on the estate.

It’s really important to try and find a match for your surplus assets before they get moved to storage, as to avoid double-handling, or having the asset sat gathering dust in a corridor somewhere, or even worse, outside!

It is vital to keep your members up to date with the progress you are making in your reuse project.

Keeping up with your users might seem like a tough task, but with all of the technology we have available to us now, making articles and sending them out via social media , newsletters, intranet or more traditional means is a pretty straightforward process.

Amazing! Had a lot of good feedback from our staff and we have started saving here at Royal Free Hospital NHS.

This signpost article will give you a brief overlook of some of the NHS articles and case studies we’ve put together, allowing you to see how Warp It helps health bodies. By reading through each of these articles, you will be able to:

• Understand how reuse helps save your healthcare organisation money by facilitating and tracking the internal redistribution of surplus assets
• Understand how Warp It helps health agencies collaborate together- to swap and trade surplus assets across the sector
• Understand how Warp It can help the health sector link up woth other sectors to collaborate on surplus assets
• Read first hand accounts of those who set up and/or manage a NHS reuse program
• Position yourself to predict potential savings
• See the challenges faced, and how they are overcome
• See a massive reduction in procurement spend
• Understand how to reduce disposal costs
• Understand how to free up space
• Understand how to how to reduce unnecessary purchase orders

To read all of our NHS case studies click here.

 

To read about our NHS Supplier of the Year award click here

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.