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The success of Buckinghamshire’s fight to reduce food waste has been recognised with a funding award of more than £800,000 from the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG). Over the next three years, this funding which will go to the Joint Waste Committee of the Buckinghamshire Waste Partnership, comprising the five local authorities in the county. The cash will help to support the partnership’s project, Fighting Food Waste. The project aims to reduce the amount of food waste…

Everyone Active, the trading name for Sports Leisure Management (SLM), has entered into a joint venture partnership with Sunderland City Council for nine leisure centres. The arrangement– which will commence on 1st June 2015 – will see the formation of a Joint Venture Company (JVCo) comprising Sunderland City Council and Everyone Active representatives. Each organisation will have a 50 per cent stake. The new Joint Venture Company will develop the venues and help encourage participation…

The revision of the Construction (Design & Management) regulations, and forthcoming enactment of CDM 2015 this year, will bring many of the smaller operational and maintenance-type projects within its scope for the first time, and place new obligations on Clients and Facilities Managers throughout the UK. The scope of what constitutes “construction work” has also been increased and FM works are now clearly included. It will be incumbent on those who procure such “works” to…