Assets already in use
Look at buildings, equipment, land, skills and relationships. Identify underused capacity and ways to keep useful value circulating.
Recognising overlooked local assets, waste streams, skills, land, culture and economic opportunities, including energy, heat and water.
An initial opportunity list, with potential customers, resources and partners to investigate.
Bring your community’s priorities, available resources and decision-making context into the learning. Capture the evidence you have and the questions that need further investigation.
Use these concepts to explore your own resources, relationships and opportunities.
Look at buildings, equipment, land, skills and relationships. Identify underused capacity and ways to keep useful value circulating.
Explore how resources and outputs from one activity could support another, with clear customers and practical delivery requirements.
Record implications for customers, resources, partnerships, delivery, economics and risk in your OPPORTUNITY business case. Consider the outcomes for people, prosperity and the planet together.