Our Strategy
Supported by a refreshed set of organisational values, the Lighthouse Board has endorsed Lighting the Way to 2035, Trinity House’s proactive and action-orientated response to a fast-changing world.
Our vision is for the waters of England, Wales, the Channel Islands and Gibraltar to be the safest to navigate anywhere in the world.
Supported by a refreshed set of organisational values, the Lighthouse Board has endorsed Lighting the Way to 2035, Trinity House’s proactive and action-orientated response to a fast-changing world.
In 2035 UK’s prosperity and security will continue to depend upon the sea. The need for aids to navigation will endure. Noting that over 95% of UK’s trade is, and will continue to be, transported in ships through the major ports of England and Wales and that those ships are kept safe by the aids to navigation maintained by Trinity House it follows that our purpose is
for:
Trinity House’s highly skilled and committed people to help safeguard our island nation’s prosperity and security, protect our marine environment and save lives. At all times and in all conditions.
Lighting The Way to 2035 is a proactive response to the changing strategic context outlined in the Tri- GLA Strategy, Navigating Towards 2040, designed to ensure Trinity House continues to discharge its mission to:
Deliver a reliable, efficient and cost-effective aids to navigation service for the benefit and safety of all mariners.
The strategic challenges are well documented: geo-political instability and changing traffic patterns; a worsening climate; the blue economy and renewable energy driving a shared, more congested, sea space; the more unpredictable economic environment; the changing nature of the future mariner; the shifting regulatory requirement; the difficulties in attracting and retaining a skilled workforce; and, the impact of rapidly changing technology including autonomous shipping, data and digital.
Benefits
The benefits of Lighting the Way to 2035 need to be clear for all to see and feel and are to:
- Provide clear organisational purpose and direction;
- Operate safely, maintaining standards of excellence and strengthening our resilience;
- Attract, develop and retain great people;
- Achieve a modernised operational estate, adapted for climate change;
- Ensure environmental sustainability; reducing our carbon footprint and reducing waste;
- Ensure financial stability through effective governance, increased efficiency and growth in commercial income;
- Embed digitally enabled ways of working; streamlined systems and processes;
- Improve interoperability; and
- Increase collaboration and a greater influence in maritime affairs.
Our approach
Our approach will be values-led, and one of continuous improvement. Evolution not revolution, but evolution with ambition.
Our new WAVE values are:
Working together to Achieve excellence.
Valuing each other to Evolve with ambition.
Where we are today and where we want to be tomorrow
Today, through our valued and dedicated employees, we meet our statutory requirements, we set and achieve high standards; however;
- We operate aging, unreliable, carbon intensive ships operating from depots not adapted for the climate;
- The cost of maintaining an aging-estate is increasing;
- Whilst we are enroute to digitising our data we are not yet digitalised;
- In some critical roles we suffer unsustainable employee turnover with an over reliance on agency workers;
- There is unrealised potential to grow commercial income;
- There is unrealised potential to shape policy and regulation.
By 2035, we will be:
- A values-led, well-led, match fit organisation with people who want to join us, grow with us & advocate for us;
- An influential, authoritative, expert voice within the maritime sector;
- Operating an innovative, sustainable mix of physical & virtual AtoN ashore & afloat;
- Optimised for digital;
- Operating reliable efficient ships;
- An organisation with a reduced impact on the environment in accordance with Government regulations;
- Operating facilities scaled for our future needs and adapted to a changing climate;
- Achieving sustainable growth in commercial income.