Minerva's 'Practical Procurement Webinars' - Previous Webinar Recordings

Catch up on some of our previous webinars (or click here to see our upcoming webinars)

Food Waste and New Legislation

This month we are joined by Amanda Hepburn who is an Account Director at GPT Waste. Amanda has extensive knowledge of this sector, working at one of the leading independent providers of waste management solutions in the UK. In April 2025 there will be new legislation for food waste –

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Practical Procurement Webinar: Contract Termination

This month we are joined once again by Matthew Wolton, partner at VWV in the Commercial Law team. In the second of our two webinars looking at contracts within the academy trust sector, Matthew will be covering termination and how to get out of contracts that are just not working, specifically looking

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What To Look For When Entering Into A Contract

This month we are joined by Matthew Wolton. Matthew is a partner at VWV in the Commercial Law team. He has worked in the education sector for over 21 years, and with academy trusts since 2007, and has significant experience in general commercial law as well as public procurement advising on everything

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Cyber Attacks: How to Stop Them Happening

We are joined by Neil Limbrick from The Education Collective. Neil has been in education for 22 years undertaking various strategic IT roles in schools and MATs with particular success in developing systems to improve functions, efficiency and security – the latter being vital in today’s precarious environment. Cyber attacks are, worryingly,

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Social Media Checks – How To Get It Right

Ben Hart is the Co-Founder and Director of Social Media Check (www.socialmediacheck.com) with over 15 years working as an accredited detective and senior investigating officer in roles that included major investigations utilising online searching and data interrogation. Given that online activity has become a key part of our behaviour,  social

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How To Create A Deposit Strategy

If you are a school or Trust that is lucky enough to have £250,000 or more surplus cash at the end of each month, then you may be interested in how you can make this surplus money work for you. In our second webinar of 2023, we are joined by

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Planning A Successful Procurement Project

If you are thinking about setting up new contracts or have any renewing for September then you need to  start your procurement activity right now. In the first webinar of 2023, Lorraine Ashover, Managing Director of Minerva, will be focusing on the basics of setting up and running a successful

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