Membership to ADEPT offers numerous benefits to you and your organisation
Membership services
- Networking, sharing intelligence & best practice, interface with central government via the regional boards, national subject boards, and technical working groups.
- Opportunities to attend / speak at national conferences, workshops, webinars. The 2026 Autumn Conference is being held in Brighton on 26 & 27 November.
- Access to our highly valued and competitively priced learning & development programmes: the Leadership Development Programme for aspiring place directors, the Leadership Pathway Programme for those earlier into their career, the PACE programme for executive directors with new programmes under development.
- Vacancy Advertisement: members can promote their latest job vacancies via the website.
Innovation & best practice
- Access to / participation in the DfT funded Live Labs programmes and Carbon Leadership Programme.
- Opportunities to participate in pilot projects - such as the Gen Z recruitment campaign, the Digital Academy.
- Access to materials such as An Introduction to Talking Climate.
Policy influence
- Participation in national subject boards and technical working groups.
- Opportunities to be involved in policy projects, developing position statements, toolkits, best practice guides, etc.
- Inputting to formal responses on government consultations / inquiries / stakeholder groups etc.
- Regular interactions with government departments including DfT, Defra, DESNZ, MHCLG, DCMS.
Who can join
- Local authority directors* with strategic service responsibilities for planning, transportation, environment, waste management, economic development throughout England.
- Combined Authority chief executives / strategic directors
- Sub-national Transport Body chief executives / strategic directors
- Former local authority directors who have now retired but still want to be involved with ADEPT
- Former ADEPT members who now work within the private sector or outside of local government in the public sector
*Local and combined authority directors join on behalf of their organisation. Once membership is confirmed colleagues may also enjoy the benefits of ADEPT membership including joining boards/working groups, receiving ADEPT communications, participating in member-only learning and development opportunities, and receiving member rates at conferences.
ADEPT also offers a Corporate Partner Membership option, with more information available here.
If you have any questions on membership, please contact us.