The School is a Community of Partners who drive education, collaboration and co-ordinated action to secure a sustainable, productive, and profitable built environment.
Our Partners set the strategic direction of the Supply Chain Sustainability School, identify key issues to address and help to drive and deliver new training and content, demonstrating they are taking the lead in tackling core sustainability issues.
Partnership supports businesses to win more work, reduce cost and risk, and evidence compliance, while giving you a seat at the table that sets the direction for the industry. Join over 60,000 individual learners, 5,000 supplier organisations, and 230 industry leaders already Partnering with us to build the skills of their workforce and supply chain.
Becoming a Partner is simple. To find out more about joining as a Partner, book a free discovery call with Phil.
Why Partner Now?
Lead the industry to a sustainable future and get a host of additional benefits.
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Increased competitive advantage
Identify supply chain hotspots
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Enhanced reputation
Prepare your workforce
Share best practice
The Value of Partnership
Partnership with the School means you are never tackling sustainability alone. Our Partners draw on five Centres of Excellence, a shared learning platform and expert advisers to move further and faster than they could on their own. Hear it in their own words.
Explore the Centres of Excellence
Partnership starts with our core Centre of Excellence, the Employee & Supply Chain Development module. You can then choose which of our other four Centres of Excellence to add, Scope 3 Reporting, Business Development, Risk & Resilience and On-Site Learning, building a package shaped around your priorities.
Employee & Supply Chain Development is the core Centre of Excellence, included in every partnership. It combines a training needs assessment, curated learning pathways and real time reporting, so Partners can see exactly where skills gaps sit and close them with the right content, rather than a generic course.
What's included:
- Individual training needs assessment and supplier capability benchmarking
- Custom learning pathways with Partner-only reporting on engagement and completion
- Five workshops a year, chosen from 65 topics including sustainability strategy, sustainable procurement, fairness, inclusion and respect, carbon reduction, social value and modern slavery
- 125 e-learning modules ready to host on your own LMS
- Access to 22 collaborative action groups tackling shared industry issues
Scope 3 Reporting closes the gap between what most organisations can currently prove and what regulation and clients now expect. Fragmented supply chains, inconsistent reporting requests and unreliable supplier data make spend-only estimates the default, so this Centre combines a carbon calculator with supplier learning and expertise to build a hybrid view, one that starts with spend-based estimates and moves suppliers onto primary data reporting over time, all through a single calculator engine so suppliers only have to report once.
What's included:
- A carbon calculator that builds a hybrid Scope 3 view, combining spend-based estimates with supplier-reported primary data
- A single reporting engine, so suppliers answer once rather than repeating the same data for multiple clients
- Support moving suppliers from estimated to primary data over time, improving accuracy year on year
- Expert guidance on closing the most material gaps first, rather than chasing every supplier at once
Business Development is built around three things: showcasing the work already being done, strengthening the tenders in front of a Partner right now, and setting the strategy that shapes what comes next. It gives Partners a seat in front of the industry's biggest buyers, plus hands-on help when a bid actually matters.
What's included:
- An exhibition stand at the School's Summit, in front of the industry's biggest buyers
- Two video, written or podcast case studies, plus an enhanced listing on the School's supplier database
- Five days of direct support on live tenders, when it matters most
- An annual, C-suite facilitated strategy workshop reviewing the sustainability issues most likely to affect the business
- An annual strategy report, setting out clear priorities for the year ahead
See the risks before they become problems. It helps Partners get ahead of the sustainability risks most likely to disrupt supply, reputation or delivery, rather than reacting once something's already gone wrong.
Risk & Resilience works through three clear steps: understand the current position, prioritise what matters most, then act on a plan built around it. Senior stakeholders are involved throughout, so the roadmap reflects what the business actually faces, not a generic checklist.
What's included:
- An annual, C-suite facilitated strategy workshop and benchmark assessment against clients, competitors and the market
- A facilitated materiality workshop each year, backed by ten stakeholder interviews, to identify what matters most
- An annual strategy report setting out a clear roadmap of recommended actions, targets and timelines
- A prioritised action plan, so effort goes where the risk is greatest first
Sustainability training that reaches every site, not just the office. It brings bite-sized, fit-for-purpose learning to site-based teams in real time, wherever they're working, so training doesn't depend on a desk or a good signal.
On-Site Learning is built for the people who can't easily sit down at a computer for a course. Content is designed to be picked up in short bursts on site, tracked at individual site level, and benchmarked against what specific on-site roles actually need to know.
What's included:
- 1,000 user app licences included, so training reaches teams at scale
- A catalogue of 30 specialised sustainability modules, each with its own assessment
- Benchmarking of training needs tailored to specific on-site roles
- Administrator accounts to track attendance and completion at individual site level
- Content built to work in any remote location, without relying on a desk or an office network
Who can become a Partner?
Supplier Programmes
Partnering with the School is just the start. For organisations with big, complex supply chains, we build bespoke supplier programmes that go further, working directly with your suppliers to build the skills and knowledge they need to hit your goals.
We’ve done this in construction and infrastructure, with National Highways, HS2 and Sizewell C, in finance with NatWest, and in education, working with universities up and down the country to support both students and educators.
It’s a genuine partnership. We get to know your business, your risks and your priorities, then build a programme around them, not generic tickbox training.
If you’d like to find out what that could look like for you, get in touch today.
FAQs on Partnership
- Access to our learning platform and Expert Advisers, plus your choice of our Centres of Excellence. These include the Employee & Supply Chain Development (the core partnership), Scope 3 Reporting, Business Development, Risk & Resilience and On-Site Learning
- 5 workshops per year selected from 65 topics, and 125 e-learning modules for your LMS
- Supply chain tracking technology with real-time analytics and exclusive partner reporting
- Opportunity to join groups with industry leaders to explore key sustainability issues
Members are companies with a free account on the School which gives them access to all the training, resources and assessments hosted, as well as dashboards to track their engagement as individuals and company as a whole. They can showcase their commitment to upskilling on sustainability with the School to their clients through CPD certificates and badges. Read more about membership here.
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