GLA Group and family

The GLA Group is made up of the GLA and its functional bodies. In all, this includes:

  • Greater London Authority (GLA)
  • Transport for London (TfL)
  • The Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC)
  • London Fire Commissioner
  • London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC)
  • Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC)

All are dedicated to serving London, and Londoners, in one way or another.

The GLA family includes the organisations above, plus delivery partners:

  • Metropolitan Police
  • London Fire Brigade (LFB)
  • London and Partners
  • London Ambulance Service (LAS)

Collaboration portfolio and team

Collaboration is a key priority for the Mayor of London.

The Collaboration portfolio, facilitated by the Collaboration team, brings together collaborative projects and activity taking place across the GLA family.

The mission of the portfolio and team articulates what we want to achieve and how we work. It is:

Working as one, delivering maximum benefit to Londoners

We collaborate across the GLA family on work areas that make us more effective and efficient. We aspire to build a culture where everyone thinks “I’m part of a group; not just one organisation in isolation.”

Our aim is to remove operational and cultural barriers to joint working, enabling all our organisations to be willing and able to work together as effectively and efficiently as if they were one.

The projects we work on bring a range of economical, efficiency and effectiveness benefits, as well as supporting key mayoral priorities.

We’re always on the lookout for new opportunities to collaborate. Our new online Collaboration Hub is being prepared for launch in autumn 2024, but if you’d like to find out more in the meantime – or have a great new idea for how we could collaborate across the GLA family – please get in touch.

The Talent Portal is just one initiative that we’ve helped come to life recently. Alongside this, we’ve already completed projects which have made improvements in the areas detailed below.

  • GLA Group mentoring hub – to enable matching of mentors / mentees across the GLA family of organisations.
  • HR shared services – TfL now provide HR services to GLA and OPDC.
  • Public health – a Group-wide shared service of specialist public health expertise and support.
  • Planning and spatial development – bringing together the GLA Planning and Regeneration team and the TfL Spatial Planning team. Providing a structure and operating model designed to reduce duplication and save costs.
  • Collaborative procurement – a Group-wide approach to procurement.

And over the coming months we – alongside colleagues across the GLA family – will be working on a range of projects. Some examples include:

  • IT shared services – TfL will provide IT services to GLA, OPDC, MOPAC and LLDC.
  • An accommodation strategy to collaborate on office re-locations and shared hubs across the GLA family estate.
  • Electric vehicle infrastructure delivery – to provide a large number of electric vehicle charge points across the GLA family estate.
  • Energy procurement – leveraging TfL’s significant energy purchasing power to bring benefits for the whole GLA family through long term power purchase agreements.
  • Treasury collaboration – collaboration between GLA and TfL on treasury services.
  • Pay gap reporting – to ensure pay gap reports are consistent and timely.

Our Collaborative Professional Communities (CPCs) are central to how we work and get things done. They are a set of professional forums, made up of members from across the GLA family, which build strong professional communities that attract and retain world class talent, and identify opportunities to work together. They work by driving forward collaborative actions, sharing knowledge and approaches to new ways of working, as well as providing peer to peer support.

For more information about the collaborative work taking place across the GLA family, contact the GLA Group Collaboration team.