• Innovation Challenge: Lambeth

Can your product or service help local, established organisations meet their net zero goals?

We’re calling on innovative solutions addressing Low Carbon Buildings & Mobility, Waste & Circular Economy, and Behavioural Change.

As experts in collaboration, we’re able to facilitate open innovation, locally.

Large established organisations are facing tough challenges to reach Net Zero. SMEs based within the Lambeth borough can help address them. The Innovation Challenge is a fully funded opportunity for SMEs and Established Businesses to find one another and partner in a short term programme to explore the application of cutting edge solutions.

Supported by Lambeth Council’s Economic Resilience Fund

 

In partnership with

 

Your product or service could support:

  • Low Carbon Buildings

    For example addressing challenges such as Ventilation, Energy Performance, Operations and Insulation.

  • Waste & Circular Economy

    For example addressing challenges such as Eliminating Single Use, Waste & Recycling and Reduction of Plastics.

  • Behaviour Change

    For example addressing challenges such as Visitor Monitoring and Tenant Empowerment.

  • Low Carbon Mobility

    For example, visitor transportation and low carbon freight.

To take part in the challenge, you will be:

  • Able to apply your solution within Lambeth Borough

  • Excited to pitch to a number of established organisations in Lambeth Borough

  • Willing to invest time (~6 hours) to understanding the needs of a partner organisation (and potential customer)

  • Interested in finding opportunities to collaborate through Trials, Shared Learning and Commercial Relationships

Programme timeline

  • 01

    Apply to be shortlisted for the Innovation Challenge

    Complete a short questionnaire to introduce us to your offering and the theme it supports. Sustainable Ventures will shortlist the most relevant innovations in the Borough.

  • 02

    Be invited to pitch to organisations on how your innovation addresses their need

    Attend the matching day to show case your offering and to meet with decision makers in each Established Business.

  • 03

    Collaborate with the Established Business

    Sustainable Ventures will facilitate 3 months (~6 hours) of constructive engagement between Established Businesses and the Innovative Partner to explore collaborations for a Net Zero future.

  • 04

    Explore ways to integrate the chosen innovation

    Wrap up the funded engagement by discussing next steps for example, a potential trial or commercial contract.

  • 05

    Attend the innovation day

    An event at County Hall to showcase outcomes, learnings and successes

  • Your support has been fantastic and I’d very much like to stay in touch and continue building on our relationship.

    Shahrokh Mohammadi, NS Innovations

  • I must say that the insights and connections Sustainable Ventures has brought to this process have been very precious to kickstart things on a right footing.

    Bruno de Penanster, Ananas Anam

  • We got a huge amount of benefit from being part of the programme. Thank you so much again to all of the SV team for the professional and thorough support.

    Emma Shaw and Rebecca Trevalyan, Library of Things

Organisations that innovators have pitched to include

FAQs

 

  • The Established Organisations are all committed to delivering Net Zero. They are pro-actively seeking new ideas and opportunities to help with this. When pitching, you will have a captive audience of decision makers able to influence change if and where there is an opportunity to apply your innovation to their business.

  • Feel free to contact sophie.turner@sustainableventures.co.uk with any questions.