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📢 EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT⭐ Tickets are now available for LocalGov Drupal Camp 2026. 🎫 This year, we’re heading to the brilliant city of Sheffield for two days of networking and collaboration. 🚀 ⚡ Day one will feature lightning talks, show-and-tell sessions, workshops, discussion groups, and more. 💡 👷🏽♀️ Day two will focus on contributions; we'll work together on new features and tackle the issue queue. 🛠️ ⌚ June 11 and 12 at Sheffield Hallam University.   Tickets are free for all councils.  Discover more and sign up for both days via our site > https://lnkd.in/eD8f7DKS   🎮 We also have an exciting social arranged for Wednesday, 10th June. We'll be heading to the NATIONAL VIDEO GAME HISTORY MUSEUM in Sheffield for an evening of retro gaming! We'd love to see you there. 🥳   🙏🏽 Thanks to our sponsors for making this event possible. Gold sponsors: Annertech and Invuse  Silver sponsors: Agile Collective, Big Blue Door, Rohallion, Webcurl Ltd and Zoocha Bronze sponsors: Code Enigma Social Sponsor: Big Blue Door Thanks also to Sheffield City Council for helping to arrange the venue.

👀 Check out our latest in-depth guide 💡 ⚡ AI that aligns with your mission, not just your budget ✔️ As a digital partner to a wide range of organisations, we increasingly get asked questions about AI. Such as: 🔸 How can we keep our data secure?  🔸 How can we minimise the environmental impact of using it? 🔸 How do we maintain tech sovereignty? Keeping meaningful control over our own data, infrastructure, and digital decision-making. Our AI Lead, Simon Chapman, has reviewed several providers across multiple categories to provide some answers. His evaluation of different models is based on a few concrete metrics that we consider important and that align with our core values. He covers: 🔹 Data retention 🔹 Location and the CLOUD Act 🔹 Environmental impact It features: Proton.ai Lumo Mistral AI LeChat GreenPT Internxt AI Nebius Scaleway Hetzner CUDO Compute Hyperstack DataCrunch Check out Simon's guide to find out more >https://lnkd.in/e66E6mXB We'd love your feedback on it. 🙏🏽

⭐ Please welcome one of our new recruits... the amazing Raquel de Aymerich Sagredo 👋🏽 Raquel is Agile Collective's newest Project Manager. With a background as a Product Lead, Raquel brings more to the role than traditional project management. She supports teams across discovery, design, and user testing, anticipating challenges and guiding decisions with a human-centred perspective that turns complexity into clarity. Raquel has a wealth of knowledge and experience that we know will prove invaluable to our clients and the co-op. 💛 Read all about Raquel on our site > https://lnkd.in/eZUm3_Zy

⭐ Please welcome one of our new recruits... the brilliant Andy Footner. 👋🏽 Andy is a full-stack web developer fighting to avoid the overreach of 'big tech' and working on some inspiring alternatives. He's been involved in projects using open source technologies for almost 20 years! 💪🏽 We're delighted to have such an experienced dev on board. We love the work you do. 💛 Read all about Andy on our site > https://lnkd.in/ekYpUMWb

🚀 We recently built a new site for Oxfordshire County Council to help them communicate the complexities of Local Government Reorganisation to local residents and stakeholders. 💬 💡 We built the new site using LocalGov Drupal Microsites, a low-cost/open-source solution that councils (and others) can use to quickly spin up and easily manage new sites. 💛 Visit the site here > https://lnkd.in/eTYWpUXj ⚠️ LGR is a stressful, messy and complicated business for those carrying out the restructuring. We wish council officers the best of luck in navigating the process while still delivering the services residents rely on. 💪🏽 👀 About LocalGov Drupal Microsites LocalGov Drupal Microsites gives councils unprecedented control of their digital presence. From a single instance, they can create multiple unique websites that are easy to update and maintain. ⭐ We were the lead development partner on the project, working alongside local councils and Annertech to deliver a sector-leading solution to a longstanding issue for local government teams. Contact us if you'd like to know more about how your organisation could benefit from the platform.

📢 We're proud to announce that we've been accredited as an Oxford Living Wage employer! ✔️ As a worker co-operative, we're delighted to demonstrate our commitment to fair pay and support employees in one of the UK’s most expensive cities. 🥑 The Oxford Living Wage ensures a minimum wage of £14.06 per hour for 2026-27, set at 95% of the London Living Wage as determined by the Living Wage Foundation. 📈 The rates are calculated each year by the Resolution Foundation using a robust methodology to ensure people earn enough to afford a minimum acceptable standard of living. This commitment means that everyone working at Agile Collective, including regularly contracted and part-time staff, will be paid at or above this rate. The Oxford Living Wage helps ensure more people earn a fair wage that reflects the true cost of living and working in Oxford. To find out more about the Oxford Living Wage and how other businesses can get involved, please visit Oxford City Council’s website. https://lnkd.in/e6tsJWtr #OxfordLivingWage

👀 Check out this LocalGov Drupal Week video with co-op member and Lead Dev, Simon Chapman and Rachael Keating from Walsall Council. 💬 When webforms aren’t enough: Building Custom Forms and Workflows for Complex Council Processes. 👉🏽 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. 💡 ⚡ Rachael Keating (Walsall Council) and Simon Chapman (Agile Collective) share an honest exploration of Walsall Council's journey building complex forms and workflows in Drupal. They cover the challenges they faced, the limitations they encountered in standard LGD components, and the solutions developed to bridge those gaps. 🗺️ Check it out on Youtube > https://lnkd.in/eCzAMbaH

🗺️ The Griffith Institute at the University of Oxford holds one of the world’s most important #Egyptological archives: the excavation records created by Howard Carter and his team during the discovery of #Tutankhamun’s tomb in the 1920s. ⚱️ The Institute asked our team to help transform decades of archival material into something more useful: a structured, searchable archive that researchers could work with, and which would also make the collection more accessible to the public and media with a general interest in ancient Egypt. ⚡ We created a new searchable database/website that vastly improved the user experience. 🚀 Early site analysis suggests: ✔️ Faster navigation between related materials ✔️ Clearer object-centred structure ✔️ Improved cross-referencing ✔️ A visual design that makes the site pleasurable to use, as well as attracting a new audience. Great work from Stephen Cox, Richard Rowley and everyone involved in the project. 💛 Check out our latest case study to find out more > https://lnkd.in/eRz3g8iC

Many thanks to our Silver Sponsor Agile Collective "Agile Collective is a worker-owned co-operative that designs and builds Drupal-powered websites and provides a full range of digital services. As a purpose-driven organisation, the Agile team selects the projects they work on in accordance with their ethical policy, engaging with clients whose values they share and whose mission they want to help deliver." https://agile.coop/ #drupalcampengland

Check out the new video from our latest webinar, "Improving Your Website's Performance: From Audit to Impact" One of our lead developers, James Hall, ran a lunchtime webinar demystifying Web Performance and Google’s Core Web Vitals (CWV). The session was packed with actionable, practical insights for web managers, product owners, and digital leads to make your site faster, more accessible, and easier to use. You can check out a write-up of the session which now includes a video of the session. On our blog, we’ve also pulled together the key ideas, tools, and takeaways — including what Core Web Vitals actually measure, why real-user data matters, and how to prioritise performance improvements to deliver meaningful results for your users.