Alex Hartley Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

I am co-founder and a Director of South East London Community Energy; this a cooperatively owned not-for-profit business that generates renewable electricity for the benefit of the community than is run and managed by the community. To also tackle climate change and fuel poverty it runs programs on energy efficiency & getting the best energy deal.

London, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

I have specialisms in green and healthy living, particularly in sustainable transport and energy. I provided consultancy and services to reduce costs, carbon and chemicals for individuals, organisations and to events.I have worked on events such as UK AWARE, the UK's leading sustainable lifestyle show and Route To The Future for host organisation Bricks and Bread Sustainable Living Centre. I have also helped out Ecoswitch, the Uk's green comparison site and organic skincare brand Bareskin Beauty.

Greenwich, London

The overarching purpose of GCDA is to create and support sustainable communities, with the capacity to meet their health needs, plan their economic development and achieve their educational and training aspirations.ObjectivesIt will aim to fulfil this purpose by means of the following objectives:1. To encourage local communities to develop enterprises which meet economic and social needs and are co-operatively managed.2. To develop projects which improve the physical and social environment in which communities live.3. To provide training courses which promote healthy eating, sustainable catering, food growing and balanced diets.4. To promote healthy living styles, so that the physical and mental well-being of people is improved.5. To create community hubs – based on cafes, farms, allotments, market places and training centres – which represent community-based and co-operative responses to community needs, thereby strengthening the cohesiveness of communities.I work on communications and development strategy and delivery.

London, United Kingdom

I supported the production of the UK's longest running and best-loved sustainable lifestyles exhibition at Olympia-the 4th UK AWARE, Green Machines Expo and was also general opinion/ info/ ideas provider!

London, United Kingdom

I worked on various aspects of Revolve's events and consultancy, particularly the Brighton To London Eco-Rally, which for the last few years received sponsorship from Bridgestone. I also secured income for this event through sponsorship and exhibition space sales. I championed the Eco-Rally from inception five years ago! This is a clean-tech event is a large, annual demonstration of sustainable transport in action. I worked closely with the Founding and Creative Directors.Launched by HRH Prince Charles in 2007, it is was a not-for-profit event with the aim of accelerating the move to low/ no emission mobility. I identified and secured many sponsors and partners who can also benefited from the fair amount of media exposure received, partly thanks to our high profile drivers on the Brighton to London run.More information about the Revolve Eco-Rally can be found on their website.

Working for the Welsh Assembly Government's, Department Children, Education and Life-long Learning on the Energy Sector and Skills Project-I moved to work full time on this project from the Energy Institute.

London, United Kingdom

Principle duties and skills were to create, develop and manage existing Professional Development and training events and services relevant to universities, companies and organisations that met EI business objectives. I managed the external training providers of the Energy Institutes's I also provided careers advice "signposting" to EI members and supported the EI at energy industry events such as at All-Energy in Aberdeen I sat on the learning and Skills discussion panel and presented to Welsh companies at Energynet. I enhanced existing services, products and income to increase engagement with individual members and companies. Projects I managed included research for DCELLS on skills, qualifications and training, and the development of the EI’s education web portal, the relaunch of TEMOL-training in energy management through open learning and worked with schools. Furthermore, I represented the EI on external bodies eg EAB, EEA, SETNET etc. I attended Accreditation visits to energy sector companies and academic institutions and provided secretariat duties for the Energy Institute Accreditation Committee. I co-wrote a successful bid for funding from RAEng for a national programme of workshops for energy engineers and teachers.

London, United Kingdom

Principally I was responsible for the facilitation, design and delivery of training and workshops to charities, voluntary groups, Universities, businesses, local community organisations, local government and other similar agencies for developmental and training programmes including for EDF Energy, governmental departments, EST (Energy Saving Trust), local authorities and CAfE (community activist’s for energy) in association with CSE. I was a member of the Senior Management Team and line-managed staff. The main project I was responsible for was The Energy Care Network, funded by EDF energy. This project addressed fuel poverty by working with front-line workers who have contact with the fuel poor to provide them with advice and energy efficiency measures as well as signposting them to other sources of support. I co-presented information on this project to PRASEG (Parliamentary Renewable And Sustainable Energy Group) at the House of Commons which was one of my more prestigious venues but I very much enjoyed working with the front-line workers at WRVS on a pilot programme I developed to support their service users access money-saving advice, grants for heating systems through Warm Front, free CFL's, loft and cavity wall insulation etc... I also an active member of the Energy Efficiency Partnership for Homes Community and Education group. I was promoted from Training Officer to Training and HR Manager and sat on the senior management team.

Working on various contracts during this period the common themes were to train, co-ordinate and manage people and projects. The longest contract during this period was to project manage and develop an IT training programme for an NHS trust for a Prince2 managed project. This meant the training of 350 users to a defined competent level. I developed and delivered a knowledge-based module, covering Information for Health, Data Protection Act, Health and Safety and wrote criteria skills based modules.Other larger contracts were delivering Management and Personal Development training for Relate and Sales Trainer/ Team Manager for a Mail Marketing Company.

Core duties were day-to-day management and organisation of a sales team. I worked with event and access industries and designed training and was part of an initative to change the culture.

Core tasks: sourcing new clients, designing sales/ management training, delivering and evaluating the training to build up customer relationships to gain further sales

Core tasks: designing, co-ordinating, delivering and evaluating quality training and development courses and programmes. These included induction, call skills and sales, train the trainer, telesales, communication skills, assertive manager techniques, and involved the co-ordination of campaigns of up to 200 people for internal or external customers. This was a telemarketing arm of BT which no longer exists.