Partnership LengthUntil March 2025
Cost£5,000

This is an opportunity to ensure the Government’s ambitious agenda on new developments and upgrading homes and neighbourhoods is a win-win-win for people, climate and nature, and to showcase your organisation’s leadership.

The new Government’s big ambitions – from fixing the broken planning system and addressing the affordable homes crisis, through to upgrading homes and regenerating neighbourhoods – are major opportunities to lift living standards and tackle the climate and nature crises. And there are policy areas that urgently need more political attention, including regulation of embodied carbon emissions and cross-departmental attention on climate resilience.

After months of relationship building and policy development work, we’re well positioned to support the Government to deliver the kind of sustainable progress needed – acting as a gateway to industry expertise and as champions for brave, but necessary, green policies. With more than half of MPs new to the Commons, there’s also a big opportunity to build broad new support across Parliament.

But, this is a huge, fast-moving agenda and we need more capacity – including financial, intellectual expertise and thought-leadership to help us make the most of the opportunities, and help the Government steer away from pitfalls. 

Becoming a funding Project Partner is an opportunity for members seeking to deliver serious policy change this year, and to demonstrate their leadership at a time of climate and nature crisis.

Through this project we will be: 

  • Engaging with political and policy decision-makers to shape the conversation through 1:1 meetings, roundtables, events, site visits and more
  • Setting the agenda with game-changing policy proposals developed with Project Partners and members
  • Convening members and broad-based coalitions to champion action on key policy areas and opportunities
  • Analysing and commenting – briefing members, parliamentarians and journalists on the implications of policy announcements

Project benefits

Shaping the policy agenda

Project partners will meet regularly from September 2024 – March 2025 to offer a strategic steer on the priorities and approaches of UKGBC’s advocacy work. In a fast-moving period, this is an opportunity to engage our sector to swing behind the sustainable policies you are particularly looking for Government progress on. For example, from embodied carbon emissions to commercial retrofitting, circular economy to more funding to upgrade social housing, your organisation will have a guaranteed space at any roundtables with politicians organised as part of the project that are relevant to your policy priorities. You will also be guaranteed two places at any launch events, receptions and larger events in and around Parliament organised as part of UKGBC’s public affairs work.

Expanding your network and information sharing

You will secure a position on UKGBC’s new Advocacy Taskforce which meets monthly, bringing together a wide range of member expertise to share analysis intel on policy and political developments and helps to deliver agreed outputs as part of the wider advocacy strategy.

Raising your brand profile

Your organisation will be credited with being a leading advocate of sustainable policy, by boosting UKGBC’s advocacy work at this pivotal time. We will announce the Project kick off and project Partners in September 2024 on social media, our website and through newsletters to all members. Your organisation’s logo will be included on all project related outputs and collateral (eg. reports, videos, presentation slides). Where relevant, you will be invited to provide quotes for journalists, speak at project-related panel or launch events, and write thought-leadership pieces for our website and social media platforms. You will receive bespoke social media assets to help promote your organisation’s support of the project.

Developing your staff

Your colleagues will gain unique experience of policy and public affairs in a fast-moving context, and improve their knowledge through Taskforce participation, engaging with a diverse set of stakeholders from across industry, policy and politics and collaborate to co-create policy proposals and influencing strategies.

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Emily Kent
Emily Kent Policy and Regenerative Places Coordinator

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