LocalGov Drupal Week

In a week of virtual sessions and an in-person contribution day, our unique community will share ideas and collaborate to further enhance our digital products.

It’s an excellent opportunity to learn from other digital professionals and solve problems with colleagues from other councils and their suppliers.

Call for sessions

There’s a simple form to fill out to submit your session idea. Please review all the information below before you submit (it should only take 5 minutes).

Submit a session proposal now >

The deadline for submissions is Friday 30th October at 5pm.

Sessions are short (45 minutes) and should be interactive where possible to combat Zoom fatigue.

They take place around lunchtime or at the end of the working day to accommodate as many people as possible.

Please keep these things in mind when thinking about your proposal.

Sessions are free to attend. 

Sessions are advertised to subscribers, contributors, and others outside of our community, via Luma and our other comms channels.

Focus Areas

Below is a list of ideas of areas your session could focus on:

• Content design
• User Experience, Accessibility, & Design
• Development & Coding
• Product strategy
• Community

Timeline

1st October - Call for content opens
23rd October - Call for content closes
26th October  - Accepted presenters and facilitators notified 
29th October - Facilitator and presenter acceptance deadline
2nd November  - Full schedule published - each session will be on Luma for sign ups.
November 30th - December 4th - online sessions
December 4th - in-person contribution day (London)

Program Details

Sessions will be presented virtually from Monday, November 30th to Thursday, December 4th  in 3 slots each day:

• 12pm - 1pm
• 1pm - 2pm 
• 4pm - 5pm

On Friday, 4th December, we will also meet in London at a contribution day to collaborate on our digital products.

Submission Guidelines

• Sessions should share knowledge and enhance the community—rather than sell products or services.
• Preference will be given to sessions that aren’t already available online.
• We encourage longtime contributors to lift as they climb by partnering with other community members- new faces are especially welcome!
• To create well-rounded presentations with varied perspectives, we encourage session partnerships between service providers and recommend that session facilitators and presenters represent different organisations.
• The number of facilitators and presenters per session is limited. See the information in the session types section below.
• Manels (men-only panels) will not be accepted.
• Facilitators and presenters may submit up to two session proposals.
• Accepted facilitators and presenters may participate in a maximum of two sessions, only one of which can be a solo session.
• Facilitators and presenters are required to read and adhere to the community code of conduct. 

Submitters may edit their submission until the deadline, 30th October at 5.00pm.

Making LocalGov Drupal Week Diverse & Inclusive

With only 4% of contributors who are women or non-binary and 16% who are members of ethnic or national minorities in the country where they currently live, it’s clear that open source has a diversity problem. This imbalance is also present in the LocalGov Drupal community.

Creating more diverse and inclusive LocalGov Drupal events is a step towards addressing the diversity disparity in the Drupal community and beyond. 

We strongly encourage submissions from facilitators and presenters who have been marginalised due to racism, misogyny, transphobia, and other forms of discrimination.

Sponsorship pack

We’re looking for sponsors for LocalGov Drupal Week 2026

It’s an excellent opportunity to reach, network and solve problems with digital professionals from councils across the UK and beyond.

Our series of events will enable sponsors to engage directly with a community of hundreds of digital professionals who manage millions of pounds of budget for their authorities' digital estates.

About LocalGov Drupal

LocalGov Drupal is the publishing platform created by councils for councils.

But we are so much more than just a free CMS.

We are a growing community of developers, content designers and digital leaders from over across the UK and Ireland who share code, user research and ideas to help each other build incredible, best-practice websites and other digital products.

As part of LocalGov Drupal, councils deliver a much better digital experience for their users while saving money.

LocalGov Drupal community in numbers

• 54 subscribers - 33 councils and 21 suppliers
• +950 email newsletters list (with open rates of +35%)
• +600 active Slack users
• +1500 social media followers
• +800 attendees at LocalGov Drupal Week 2025

The sponsorship offer

This event gives sponsors highly targeted access to council representatives from the UK and beyond.

By sponsoring the event, you’ll position yourself as a digital innovator in the local authority sector.

This is a unique opportunity to feature alongside the most talked-about and successful digital project in local government of recent years.

2x Gold sponsorship opportunities at £3,000 

Pre-event

• Newsletter, social media and Slack mentions
• Placement on our event webpage
• Placement on our event listings channel (Lu.ma)
• A dedicated session
• Promotion of your dedicated session
• A dedicated guest blog on our site related to the topic of your session

During the week

• A dedicated, branded session (in line with session guidelines)
• Mention on all pre-session splash screens
• Mention as a thank you at the end of all LGD sessions (some sessions will be hosted by other community members and will run independently).

Post-event

• Mentions/thank yous in social media posts, Slack posts and the newsletter
• A recording of your session hosted on our YouTube channel

3x Silver sponsorship opportunities at £1,000 

Pre-event

• Newsletter, social media and Slack mentions
• Placement on our event webpage
• Placement on our event listings channel (Lu.ma)

During the week

• Mention on all pre-session splash screens
• Mention as a thank you at the end of all LGD sessions (some sessions will be hosted by other community members and will run independently)

Post-event

• Mentions/thank yous in social media posts, Slack posts and the newsletter

5x Bronze sponsorship opportunities at £500 

Pre-event

• Newsletter, social media and Slack mentions
• Placement on our event webpage

During the week

• Mention on all pre-session splash screens

Post-event

• Mentions/thank yous in social media posts, Slack posts and the newsletter

For more information or to book your slot, please email Tim at hello@localgovdrupal.org