About Us

Capital Ambition is London's Improvement and Efficiency Partnership. Our vision is to ensure that London’s public services will continue to take the lead in innovation, fairness, relevance, efficiency and effectiveness.

Capital Ambition is at the forefront of new ways of working; exploring new models of service delivery to empower and engage communities and supporting the development of real ‘One Time-One Touch’ Services. It is driving the delivery of significant efficiencies by helping authorities join up services and explore new commercial techniques, to improve the management of London’s £9bn supply chain of support services.

Capital Ambition supports innovative solutions to improving the resilience of London to future major risks, such as climate change and worklesssness, through the unique ‘London Collaborative’, a network of London’s public sector leaders.

It also works with its partners to improve public services in London by analysing performance across the capital. Capital Ambition provides individual support packages to those authorities in need of assistance and has a comprehensive engagement strategy with each London local authority to challenge present performance.

Looking to the future, Capital Ambition supports the improved recruitment and development of members and senior managers; providing training and information events to enhance skills and knowledge and promote greater sharing of best practice and networking.

Capital Ambition has £36m funding to support councils in delivering significant improvements in services, reducing costs and introducing new ways of working.

The work that Capital Ambition does is organised under four themes:

• Connected London
• Delivering Together
• Raising the Bar
• Developing Capability

To read more about what each of these themes means please head to our Themes page

To find out what our work means for London, please read our What’s in it for you? Giving and taking to improve the capital Opens in a new window booklet, and visit our Improvement & Efficiency Strategy for London page

This major work programme over four years is governed by leading members, borough Chief Executives and senior partners, through the London Improvement Board and the Capital Ambition Programme Board. Members, Chief Executives and senior managers also play an active part in each of the supporting programme boards. These ensure a coordinated oversight and challenge, helping to maintain world class service delivery in the capital.

For more information on any aspect of our organisation, please contact:

Suzanne Rose
Head of Business Development and Engagement
suzanne.rose@londoncouncils.gov.uk
020 7934 9968.