2025
- 'Find Your Path' - innovative campaign launched to transform local government recruitment
The Find Your Path campaign focuses on attracting young people aged between 18 and 27 to local authority roles, including those delivering the place services we all use such as local highways, waste and recycling, green space and access, as well as people based roles.
- Stevenage Nightlight Crisis Café: A lifeline for mental health support
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Following their success at the APSE Service Awards 2024 for Best Health and Wellbeing Initiative, take a deep-dive into the story of the Stevenage NightLight Crisis Cafe.
- Announcing the APSE Scotland Striving for Excellence Awards
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Celebrating excellence in fleet, waste and grounds services
- A World-First Innovation: The Experiential Funeral Venue - Obitus
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At Obitus, we’re constantly striving to meet the evolving needs of families and the venues we work alongside. We know that saying goodbye is a deeply personal and meaningful moment, and as the world changes, so do the ways families wish to honour their loved one.
- No Mow May Survey
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APSE are working with Plantlife on extending the No Mow May initiative beyond May, encouraging people to continue growing grass and wildflowers into the summer to maximise benefits to people, nature and climate. This short survey will provide evidence to inform our funding application to support this work.
- The value of swimming
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Andy Salmon, CEO, Swim England, gives an overview of challenges faced by the leisure sector, as well as the multitude of health and wellbeing benefits offered.
- Funeral Experts joins APSE Approved Partner Scheme
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Funeral Experts is transforming how bereaved families navigate funeral arrangements and bereavement administration through its innovative, free-to-use funeral director comparison platform and bereavement support service.
- Bucher Municipal joins APSE Approved Partner Scheme
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Bucher Municipal produce only the highest quality machines across the road sweeping, sewer cleaning and winter maintenance industries.
- Simpler Recycling – Latest Policy Update
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Courtesy of Roadvert
- Announcing the winners of the APPG and Soft FM Innovation Awards 2024/25
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Announcing the winners of the APPG Excellence in School Food Awards and the APSE Soft Facilities Management Innovation Awards 2023/24!
Promoting excellence in public services
APSE (Association for Public Service Excellence) is a not for profit unincorporated association working with over 300 councils throughout the UK. Promoting excellence in public services, APSE is the foremost specialist in local authority frontline services, hosting a network for frontline service providers in areas such as waste and refuse collection, parks and environmental services, cemeteries and crematorium, environmental health, leisure, school meals, cleaning, housing and building maintenance.
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