Resource Efficiency East

Resource Efficiency East (REE) has secured funding from the East of England Development Agency (EEDA) and European Regional Development Fund to support up to eight Supply Chain Networks within the East of England.

The Supply Chain Network aims to improve the resource efficiency of small and medium sized businesses in the East of England by working with the supply chains of larger regional organisations. Applications to become a host within the Network are invited from public and private sector organisations in the East of England who are motivated to work with, and mentor their supply chain to deliver improvements in resource efficiency.

The Supply Chain Network is designed to improve resource efficiency on a collective basis by enabling larger organisations to mentor and engage SMEs that are connected through their supply chain to many other organisations. The aim of the Supply Chain Network is to help host organisations understand the opportunities of working as a delivery partner; engaging their supply chain, making their internal procurement procedures more sustainable and sharing their understanding and learning with their suppliers, distributors and wholesalers with respect to resource efficiency. The Supply Chain Network will provide the opportunity for sharing experiences and ideas through formal networks, delivering; meetings, training workshops, collaboration and discussions, all supported via Resource Efficiency East.

Each Supply Chain Network will be supported by up to 30 days of fully funded support to help facilitate the Network and encourage the stimulation of innovative solutions to joint issues.

For an application form and guidance to help you apply to be a host within the Supply Chain Network, please download the application form and guidance notes at the bottom of this page or complete and return the online version.

The opportunity to become a host organisation is being run as an 'open' competition - this means that the competition to be a host will remain open until we have secured our target of eight networks in the East of England. However, whilst there is no formal closing date for applications, to ensure networks can deliver the support on offer in a timely manner the latest start date for a network will be 1st September 2010. As such interested parties are encouraged to submit their application as soon as possible.

We aim to assess all applications within 10 working days of receipt.

For further information on the Supply Chain Network or the application process, please contact supplychain@resourceefficiencyeast.org.uk.