Supporting Partnerships - launch of new RGR and Beasley Associates initiative

In a New Year initiative designed for the challenge of tightening budgets and the need for further efficiencies in local authority waste management, two leading specialists have announced a new strategic collaboration to provide advice and support to local councils.

Beasley Associates and RGR – Ray Georgeson Resources - are combining their experience and knowledge in the waste and resources arena to provide a full package of support to local authorities, specifically in the area of identifying efficiency savings and making the most of partnership working opportunities.

 

Today they launch a new website www.supportingpartnerships.com which will carry information on the support available for partnership working and making the best of budgets whilst continuing to reduce waste going to landfill. The site will provide straightforward signposting and information for councils and showcase relevant projects. In time, the site will develop as an informal information exchange and is intended to be an easily accessible tool to help councils identify where to go for further assistance.

 

Director of RGR Ray Georgeson said: “Our two companies have worked increasingly closely this past year on partnership projects with councils, and the www.supportingpartnerships.com initiative is a natural next step for us. As council budgets tighten and the pressure to do ‘more with less’ becomes stronger in waste and resources management, our aim in joining forces is to acknowledge this and ensure that our combined service and network of associates provides a valuable and timely service at a time when every penny counts.”

 

Dr Jane Beasley, Director of Beasley Associates said: “In the past year, strategic projects with Defra and IESE on partnership mapping and partnership work with Cumbria, Derbyshire and East Sussex have given us a great foundation of knowledge on improving the effectiveness of waste partnerships – to divert Waste from landfill and deliver efficiency savings. We’re looking forward to closer working in 2011 at a time when smart partnerships are needed to meet the challenges facing us all.”

Ray Georgeson and Dr Jane Beasley have worked together for over a decade on various projects, including a shared secondment to the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit (Cabinet Office) in 2002/3 to work on their review of English waste policy, the Waste not: want not report. The two companies will act as primary strategic partners to each other on local government projects as well as maintaining their individual company interests.