Agile Collective

📢 Join us for the final community meetup of 2025! 🎉 This month, we're running a Show & Tell of recent work from councils and suppliers. ⚡ Talks are lightning-fast: each slot is a maximum of 5 minutes. 💬 👀 We'll be hearing from: ▪️ Norwich City Council's new website - Jason Kittle (Norwich) & Maria Young (Agile Collective) ▪️ Newark and Sherwood District Council Castle microsite - Dan Champion (Rohallion) ▪️ Luton Borough Council's beta launch - Jayvik Patel 🧠 Patel (Luton Council) ▪️ Public Consultations module for Tipperary Council - Mark Conroy (The Confident) ▪️ Colchester City Council showing their new site. And more... Let us know if you'd like to run one, and we'll squeeze you in. Everyone is welcome to join. Thursday 18 December 14:00 - 15:00 GMT Sign up on Luma > https://luma.com/oy79dadq

📢 We're hiring a Project Manager ⭐ 👀 We're looking for an experienced Project Manager who can lead digital projects for charities, NGOs, public sector bodies, and purpose-driven organisations. 💡 🙌🏽 This is a hands-on delivery role for someone who enjoys facilitating teamwork, communicating clearly, creating structure, and supporting clients to make good decisions. 📈   You'll thrive in this role if you: ▪️ Have experience running digital or software delivery projects ▪️ Are comfortable facilitating teams and creating delivery structure ▪️ Communicate clearly and transparently with clients ▪️ Experience with agile methodology (scrum or kanban) ▪️ Can handle difficult conversations in a constructive way ▪️ Manage scope and budget carefully ▪️ Bring energy, warmth, and clarity to your teams ▪️ Can work effectively in a distributed, self-managing organisation ▪️ Are passionate about helping purpose-driven organisations build better digital products 💪🏽 Benefits As a worker co-operative, you have ownership and control over your work, and over how we reward ourselves as members. Here are some of the existing benefits, but you could help shape these if you become a member. ✔️ flexible working hours and location ✔️ enhanced parental leave ✔️ generous training budget ✔️ ethical pension ✔️ mobile phone ✔️ career break ✔️ 'good causes' pot for members Visit our site to find out more and apply > https://lnkd.in/ezkdw3Vn

Another milestone for open-source in the public sector 🌍 Norwich City Council has launched its redesigned site using LocalGov Drupal, developed with Agile Collective. Key improvements: • Cleaner UX and responsive design • Better accessibility and navigation • Open-source infrastructure for long-term sustainability Project led by Julia M and Jason Kittle, reflecting strong internal collaboration and community alignment. Read the full TDT report: https://lnkd.in/g9hifeXG #Drupal #LocalGovDrupal #OpenSource #GovTech

Such an amazing achievement - the final phase of the new Norwich City Council website is now live! Really proud of the massive part played by those in the digital business teams (led by PM Jason Kittle) who committed their all to this project - working with colleagues across the organisation and at Agile Collective and LocalGov Drupal to bring this to fruition.

I'm thrilled to announce the launch of the final phase of our new Norwich City Council website! This marks the completion of a major project shaped by feedback from residents, partners, and colleagues across the organisation. The new site is clearer, easier to navigate, and accessible on all devices – reflecting months of collaboration, testing, and thoughtful content redesign. A huge thank you to everyone who contributed to making this happen. It’s a fantastic example of what we can achieve together. Special thanks to Jason Kittle, our project manager, for leading the work across all services and engaging key stakeholders throughout the process. Built in partnership with LocalGov Drupal and Agile Collective , this project demonstrates the power of collaboration and open-source innovation in local government. 👉 Explore the new site here: https://lnkd.in/eYr8DAKe

🙌🏽 Thanks to everyone who contributed to LocalGov Drupal Week. 🙏🏽 🎉 Wow. What a week! 🚀 💬 We hosted 15 incredibly well-received and well-attended sessions, with several attracting over 100 participants and most receiving 5-star reviews. ⭐ We're delighted with how the week turned out, mainly because the community genuinely found the sessions helpful and interesting. We're always focused on the council digital teams we work with and on finding ways to make their lives that little bit easier, whether that's adding a new feature to the platform or hosting a peer-to-peer learning opportunity. We really nailed it this week. 🔨 🙏🏽 Thanks to those delivering sessions, including: Graham Booth, Akeem Balogun & Pheobie Seymour, Sheffield City Council Angie Forson, Southwark Council Rachael Keating, Walsall Council Jayvik Patel 🧠 & Nova Constable, Luton Council Lisa Kennedy, Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames Craig Wilson, North Tyneside Council Kate Hurr, Cumberland Council Chris Wales, Brighton & Hove City Council Mark Gannon, Netcall Tony B., Annertech Ben Hills-Jones Melanie W. & Mike Thacker , TPXimpact | B Corp™ Alice Grey & Louwrens Erasmus, Big Blue Door Rupert Jabelman, Chicken Maria Young, Agile Collective Dan Champion, Rohallion Jamie Garrett and Nichole Sickel, Invuse Will Callaghan, Finn Lewis and Aaron Hirtenstein from the LGD Core Team Mark Conroy, David Bishop, Lydia Bishop (Sorry if I've missed anyone, please add them in the comments if I have 👇🏽) Thanks also to our sponsors Annertech, Agile Collective and Big Blue Door. "A brilliant week of informative, well-presented, and inspiring sessions. Thank you for making this community what it is." - James McGrath 👉🏽 You can find all the sessions on our Youtube playlist > https://lnkd.in/etXQcAew

💬 We recently attended the Ethical Consumer Magazine annual conference as part of Co-Tech. It was great to meet with a wide range of ethical, co-operative and not-for-profit businesses and campaign groups. There was a lot of enthusiasm for what we do! 🙂 Thanks to all those who came and had a chat with us. 🙏🏽 👀 The theme of the day was 'challenging corporate power', and there was a lot of chat about alternatives to big tech. 💪🏽 Our Comms Lead, Tim Hunt, hosted a session on the subject and was joined by fellow Co-Tech members Shaun Fensom and Natasha Natarajan (Outlandish Co-operative/SPACE4), along with  Kelli Fairbrother (xigxag) and Terry Tyldesley. It was a great discussion about how we can and must do things differently. We loved Shaun's work on co-operative digital infrastructure and can't wait to hear more about it... 🙌🏽 A big thanks to everyone at Ethical Consumer for inviting us along, including Nadine Faloci Oliver and Rob Harrison. Thanks also to Ben Philp from Creative Co-op, who joined Richard Rowley, Tim and Natasha on the Co-Tech Stall.

⚡ Make your site faster, more accessible, more sustainable, and easier to use. 📈 📣 Join our free webinar, Improving Your Website's Performance: From Audit to Impact. 👀 Our web performance lead, James Hall, will demonstrate how small, targeted site fixes can deliver significant gains for users and support your organisational goals. He’ll walk through our recent Friends of the Earth audit, where we uncovered issues and implemented changes that improved the site experience for users. 🙏🏽 Thanks to Claire Mistry at Friends of the Earth for allowing us to use them as a case study. Wednesday 3 December - 13:00 - 13:55 GMT 👉🏽 Sign up now on Luma > https://luma.com/kqjmac5y In the session, you'll also get a practical tour of our Web Performance Audit approach — the way we benchmark, diagnose, prioritise and plan improvements. We take an inclusive, ethical view of performance that considers #accessibility, #inclusion and #sustainability alongside speed. James will demonstrate how we utilise Core Web Vitals, WebPageTest, and an ICE-scored roadmap to inform team actions. What we’ll cover ▪️ How we use Core Web Vitals to focus on the metrics that matter  ▪️ The tools and data we rely on (WebPageTest, @CrUX, Pagespeed Insights, DevTools) and how the findings translate into fixes  ▪️ A step-by-step look at the Friends of the Earth audit: the issues we found and the measurable improvements that followed  ▪️ Turning insights into an actionable roadmap using ICE scoring, so your team knows what to do first.  ▪️ Followed by a Q&A: bring your thorniest performance questions. Who this is for ▪️ Digital leads, product managers and web managers in charities, NGOs and public sector teams ▪️ #Drupal site owners and editors looking for pragmatic, Drupal-aware improvements ▪️ Designers and #developers who want a clear, people-centred way to prioritise performance work ▪️ Anyone responsible for KPIs like conversion, engagement, #SEO or accessibility who needs a confident, evidence-based story to take to stakeholders Key takeaways ▪️ A practical checklist for running (or commissioning) a lightweight performance audit on your own site ▪️ How to read Core Web Vitals and separate “nice-to-have” from “must-fix” issues  ▪️ The quick wins we see most often (and how to spot them), plus how to plan the next 90 days with an #ICE-scored roadmap  ▪️ A real-world case study you can reference internally

📣 We're kicking off LocalGov Drupal Week today! 🚀 🙌🏽 We have 15 sessions taking place over the week (three per day). Thanks to all those who are contributing. 🙏🏽 👉🏽 At midday today, we will host the first session on our missions as we begin discussing major projects for the year ahead. 💡 There are several strong contenders for work in 2026, including microsites, Search, AI, and local government reorganisation. Come along and hear Will Callaghan, Finn Lewis, Maria Young and Tony B. discuss our proposals, and feed in your ideas! 💬 --- 👉🏽 At 1:00 we'll be running a session on the PDF importer project at Southwark Council. Rupert Jabelman from Chicken will showcase what we've been working on, what we've learned, and how the entire Localgov Drupal community can benefit from this work. 🙏🏽 --- 👉🏽 At 4:00 today we have our 3rd session, "Building Custom Forms and Workflows for Complex Council Processes" Join Agile Collective and Walsall Council for an honest exploration of Walsall Council's journey building complex forms and workflows in Drupal. This session will cover the challenges they faced, the limitations they encountered in standard LGD components, and the solutions developed to bridge those gaps. 📊 Sign up for sessions on Luma > https://lnkd.in/d7ku2TGv Thanks to our sponsors Big Blue Door, Agile Collective and Annertech.

📣 Check out our upcoming webinar for LocalGov Drupal Week 👀 ⚡ When webforms aren’t enough: Building Custom Forms and Workflows for Complex Council Processes 💡 Join us and Walsall Council for an honest exploration of Walsall Council's journey building complex forms and workflows in Drupal. Local authorities manage hundreds of multi-step processes daily - from licensing applications to service requests - each requiring data capture at multiple stages. While LocalGov Drupal provides powerful foundational tools, complex workflows often expose gaps between out-of-the-box functionality and real-world requirements. This session will cover the challenges they faced, the limitations they encountered in standard LGD components, and the solutions developed to bridge those gaps. sign up now > https://luma.com/o4gvxrys 🙏🏽 Thanks to LocalGov Drupal for hosting our session