Get involved
Get involved — in a way that fits your week.
Share your experience, host a visit, mentor a colleague or help shape IRDG's policy and training. We'll agree the purpose and time involved before you commit.
Why it matters
Members' experience shapes what IRDG does.
The policy positions come from members telling IRDG what is happening. The practice groups run because members turn up and compare notes. The stories exist because companies agreed to be written about. The training reflects what companies said they could not hire for.
Members' experience helps shape our policy work, programmes and peer learning. If you have twenty minutes or a morning, the routes below are what they turn into.
What contributing looks like
Someone in the room did the work you are about to read.
Every session, group and story on this site exists because a member gave it time. Sometimes that is an hour on a panel, sometimes a morning hosting a visit, sometimes a page of practice written up so the next company does not start cold.
Give evidence
Share evidence for policy work.
Three routes that put what is happening inside your organisation into the evidence IRDG argues from.
Raise a policy or implementation issue
Share what is happening, who it affects and why it matters. IRDG assesses whether it is an individual support question or evidence of a wider issue.
Contribute to policy work
Respond to consultations, contribute through the Policy Working Group and help test whether a proposed position reflects experience across the network.
Take part in the Innovation Index
Add evidence to IRDG and KPMG's annual picture of investment, priorities, incentives and barriers.
Share practice
Pass on what you have already worked out.
Six routes that move what one company has learned to the companies that have not learned it yet.
Join a practice group or forum
Compare approaches with peers in the Innovation Management Group, the Sustainability Leaders Forum or the Policy Working Group, or ask about a topic such as AI and innovation.
Ask Members Question Time
Put a candid question to the network through IRDG. Identifying details are removed unless you expressly agree otherwise.
Host or contribute to a member session
Host a site visit or practice session, share a case, frame a challenge or help another team understand what implementation looks like in practice.
Mentor another member
Help someone in another member company work through a defined innovation question where your experience is relevant — a scoped conversation, a sense-check, or a place on the Cross-Sector Mentoring Programme panel.
Attend, speak or give feedback
Use events, roundtables and site visits to contribute experience, test ideas and tell the team what would make the network more useful.
Share a member story or case study
Work with IRDG to turn a practical innovation, capability or collaboration experience into a useful story. Nothing is published without company approval.
Shape capability
Tell us which skills your team wants to develop.
Training priorities follow what member companies say they need.
Shape training priorities
Tell IRDG Innovation Skillnet what your team needs to build. Requests help inform future courses, cohorts and in-company options.
Help steer
Contribute to IRDG's governance.
IRDG is directed by a voluntary Board drawn from member companies. That only works if members put themselves forward.
Express interest in Board or committee service
Tell IRDG what experience you could contribute to a committee, working group or future advisory role. An expression of interest is not an appointment: any formal appointment follows the governance requirements that apply to the body concerned.
How IRDG handles it
What you are agreeing to, and what you are not.
Offering something does not commit you to it. These apply to every route above.
- No open-ended volunteering: the purpose, audience and time are agreed first.
- No contact details are passed on without permission.
- Commercially sensitive material is not published without explicit approval.
- Contributions are handled within the agreed process and use; public attribution requires permission.
- A contribution is an invitation, not an obligation of membership.
Get in touch
Tell us how you'd like to contribute.
One form for every route above. Say which kind of contribution you have in mind and we will come back with what it involves — no commitment at this stage. Your message goes to Mary Byrne, Director of Member Success.