Who can get involved?
The network will only be useful if it reflects real practices, constraints and opportunities. Early involvement can be light-touch and exploratory.
Knowledge of seasonal needs, surplus produce, equipment and practical rural logistics.
Access to local materials, potential equipment-sharing and new relationships with local buyers.
A short interview, resource-mapping exercise or testing one carefully scoped exchange.
Surplus stock, offcuts, spare parts, fabrication capability, facilities and specialist skills.
Lower disposal, better visibility of useful materials and stronger local supply relationships.
Identify recurring surplus and help define what a business-ready listing process requires.
Expertise in material grades, recovery routes, collections, salvage and regulation.
Earlier visibility of material streams and opportunities for appropriate local reuse.
Advise on safe material triage, traceability and where reuse is or is not practical.
Community connections, kitchens, volunteers, local needs and food-distribution experience.
Better links to local producers, equipment, volunteers and complementary services.
Map existing provision and test how offers and requests could be coordinated.
Repair skills, tools, facilities, volunteering time, donations and lived local knowledge.
More accessible routes to share, repair and create useful neighbourhood projects.
Join a workshop, flag an underused asset or help shape an inclusive service journey.
Asset knowledge, place-based insight, service expertise and links to public priorities.
Improved resource visibility and evidence for responsible coordination and reuse.
Explore boundaries, data needs and a discovery activity alongside existing processes.
Take part
Register your interest and tell us what would make a circular resource network genuinely useful to you.