2025
- Take our State of the Market Survey in Sports and Leisure
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This survey includes a range of questions that will enable a valuable snapshot to be gained of the local authority sports and leisure sector.
- Announcing the APSE Overall Council of the Year 2025 finalists
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Seven outstanding UK local authorities have been shortlisted for APSE's prestigious Overall Council of the Year award.
- A positive response to plot size adjustments amid acute demand for allotments, new APSE survey reveals
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A new national survey has revealed how local councils are successfully adapting to the intense and sustained demand for allotments by creating smaller and more manageable plots, whilst embedding biodiversity and accessibility into their services.
- APSE Direct Summer 2025 is available now!
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Restricting the appeal and availability of junk food - APSE and the TCPA, p8
Exploring waste and recycling in Gambia - Bonni Jee, APSE Principal Advisor, p10
Cleaner, greener, resilient neighbourhoods - A look ahead to the APSE Annual Seminar 2025, p12
Ageing well Swansea - Rhys Ananicz, Ageing Well Partnership and Involvement Co-Ordinator, Swansea Council, p18
Supporting city and town centre recovery - Matt Miller, APSE Executive Consultant, p22
And much more!
- Waste, Recycling, and Circular Economy Innovation Awards 2025
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APSE is pleased to present the Innovation Awards, celebrating outstanding local councils that use innovative ideas and solutions to tackle the current challenges facing the waste and recycling sector.
- New APSE Approved Partners: Welcome Switch Software
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Switch venue management and booking software
- The view from Gambia - helping a local authority abroad
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Last month, Bonni Jee, APSE Principal Advisor at APSE, was part of a technical delegation of waste professionals from the UK organised and funded by the charity WasteAid and CIWM (Chartered Institute of Waste Management) to visit and provide advice to a local authority in the Gambia. He shares his reflections on the week-long visit there.
- Ageing Well Swansea: Connecting people, building relationships, changing lives
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Rhys Ananicz, Ageing Well Partnership and Involvement Co-Ordinator, Swansea Council, outlines the authority’s approach to supporting social wellbeing in adults.
- New APSE Approved Partners: Welcome Procurement Partnership Limited
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The Procurement Partnership Limited (TPPL) is proud to announce its new status as an Approved Partner of APSE.
- Green-tech to Exhibit at GLAS 2025 – Visit the Team on Stand F3
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Green-tech has confirmed it will be exhibiting at GLAS 2025, Ireland’s leading trade event for the horticulture, landscape, and sports turf sectors.
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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