Catch up on our past Webinars

Awarding your contract is often a long awaited milestone — but it’s not the finish line. Mobilisation is where the real work begins: turning tender promises into a safe, compliant, uninterrupted service from day one.

Understanding the impact of staff pensions when running your tenders is vital. For this webinar in February we are delighted to be joined by Ginevra Gatrell (Partner, Pensions) from gunnercooke llp. Ginevra is a pensions law expert with over 20 years’ experience, and so is very well placed to talk us through the key issues

Minerva Director, Lorraine Ashover will highlight the most common challenges faced in education settings — from defining requirements and ensuring fair competition to document production, managing site visits, serving notice to existing suppliers and compliance with the Procurement Act 2023.

Running a successful tender process doesn’t necessarily mean you can relax and let the service run itself once the contract has been awarded. Once that

Yes, she’s back again!  This month Minerva Director Lorraine Ashover will be taking you through a veritable smorgasbord of helpful resources when it comes to

The Procurement Act 2023 (PA2023) will be replacing the Public Contract Regulations 2015 from February 2025, impacting all regulated procurement for maintained and Academy schools

If you are thinking of carrying out work on your school building then you need to sign up for this webinar. We are joined by

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

Lorraine talks you through the key considerations when planning your next year’s procurement. It is never too early to start planning to ensure you remain compliant with all legislation and DfE requirements – and to avoid last minute panics!

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

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

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

This month we are joined by Zenergi’s Energy Markets and Procurement team for an overview of the energy market landscape. Zenergi’s expert team continuously reviews

As the saying goes “garbage in, garbage out” and writing documentation and specifications for your tenders is no different.  This month Lorraine will take you

This month we are joined by Ben Willetts of Edurio. Ben has worked with Edurio as a Content and Insights Specialist for over a year and

This month we are joined by Neil Limbrick. Neil has been in education for 22 years undertaking various strategic IT roles in schools and MATs

300 billion of public procurement accounts for around a third of all public expenditure every year and is the largest area of public spending. For

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

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

Do you feel that there is so much CPD available that you do not know where to start? Or that nothing is on offer at

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.

This month we are joined by Neil Limbrick. Neil has been in education for 22 years undertaking various strategic IT roles in schools and MATs

We are joined by our expert panel made up of Zenergi’s Kirsty Christie, Head of Water and Bryan McAlpine, Head of Sustainability. The Environment Agency

A growing focus on energy efficiency has brought regulatory obligations to a larger number of schools than ever before. Although compliance can reduce budget pressures,

We are joined by John Edwards, of 3e Associates, NetZero, procurement and strategic advisor to the academies and education sector, Angela Tregear, Professor of Marketing

In November 2017 the announcement that ISDN / PSTN Telephony would be switched off in 2025 seemed like an ambitious target. Fast forward five years

This week, we are joined by Vernon Cox, Business Development Director for Harrison Catering Services to focus on a subject that is hitting us all

This week Chris Jermy,  Head of Business Development, Education from Zenergi and Bryan McAlpine , Head of Sustainability from DB Group join Lorraine. Schools can

Up to £14 million of funding is to be made available by The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) in Phase 3 of

A small number of changes happened to the UK’s procurement processes post-Brexit, but there are are many more to come! Join Minerva’s Director, Lorraine Ashover,