Events

Develop transformative sustainability skills for your organisation. Join our place-based learning events in 2025.

Why attend?

  • Learning & development
  • Recruitment and onboarding
  • Employee engagement

  • Community action
  • Supply chain collaboration
  • Open innovation

  • Regulation and reporting
  • Sustainability strategy
  • Competitive differentiation
Group of people taking a guided tour in an industrial food production space

Upcoming events

Our learning events connect you directly with the people and places making change. From industrial locations to places of production, you’ll have conversations with the people who are doing the work. Walking Tours will give you inspiration and extended Field Trips will support you to take new steps to transform how your organisation works.

First Hand: Community Repair Hub

Materials Systems Walking Tour

Unlocking creative skills through community-led action

March 2025 – 1.5 hours

First Hand: Community Food Hub

Food Systems Walking Tour

Enhancing food security through hyper-local collaborations

April 2025 – 1.5 hours

First Hand: Wholesale Food Market

Food Systems Walking Tour

Behind the scenes exploration of a market’s supply chain dynamics

April 2025 – 1.5 hours

First Hand: Surplus Food Redistribution Hub

Food Systems Walking Tour

Systems thinking at a surplus food warehouse and industrial kitchen

May 2025 – 1.5 hours

First Hand: Energy Recovery Facility

Materials Systems Walking Tour

Opening up to local needs at an urban waste to heat and power plant

June 2025 – 1.5 hours

First Hand: Materials Heritage in the Midlands

Materials Transition Field Trip

Exploring the material resources that shaped transformations

July 2025 – 1.5 days

First Hand: A Tideway Itinenary

Materials Systems Boat Tour

A hearts and minds approach to circular innovation

September 2025 – 1.5 hours

First Hand: Scotland’s Energy Innovation

Energy Transitions Field Trip

Large scale systemic transformation in leading Scottish islands

September 2025 – 3 days

First Hand: European Food Innovation Hub

Urban Futures Field Trip

Transforming the food system in a European capital

October 2025 – 3 days

Past events

Online

Sharing Event

The Only Way is Open: How being open helps industry (learn to) transform

November 2024

Launch Event

Sharing Event & Workshop

Exploring Green Skills and Change at the Thames Tunnel with UCL Climate Action Unit

July 2024

Online

Sharing Event

Place-Based Learning: Benefits and Relevance of Getting Hands-On for Climate Action Skills

January 2024

Walking Tour

Food Systems

First Hand tour, volunteering session and skills workshop at The Felix Project Poplar Depot

November 2023

Walking Tour

Food Systems

First Hand tour and skills workshop at the Small Beer Brewery in Bermondsey

November 2023