Toggle Learning announces the formal closure of its vocational qualification centre in March 2026, marking a strategic shift towards international consultancy — including its work on Project CETAP in Sarajevo.
A milestone moment
After decades of helping candidates gain valuable qualifications and advance their careers, Toggle Learning will formally close its vocational qualification centre in March 2026. This decision follows careful reflection on how best to deliver long-term impact in the fields of sustainability, waste and resource management. While it marks the end of one important chapter, it also continues an already exciting journey — a future fully focused on international consultancy and child education.
Why we’re evolving
The global challenges surrounding waste, climate resilience and sustainable growth have always created an unequal dynamic within Toggle and its predecessors – SC Waste Management Limited and ICERMS Limited . They have been demanding more strategic collaboration, evidence-based design and policy-level intervention.
These elements have been core components of the plethora of technical assistance projects undertaken by the Toggle team and they are now at a level that they demand a level of focus that Toggle would not be able to provide without sacrificing one of our existing areas of business. Economic logic dictates that our vocational centre is the area to be sacrificed. It has never been our core business and as a small family run enterprise we face significant challenges in this field as compared to larger formal Centres.
It has been a wonderful experience providing a bespoke learning experience or our candidates past and present but it has also been a difficult area of work with such a low number of Assessors and Internal Quality Assurers.
We are very pleased to have made a significant contribution to vocational learning, particularly in the healthcare sector. It has been an immense privilege to work at an European level on three Vocational Qualification Projects and then to work with the NHS England Healthcare Waste Managers to develop new qualifications in the healthcare sector.
It was a really challenging, but ultimately rewarding, experience working through the qualification development process with a multitude of EU partner organisations and then going through the same process here in the UK with the CIWM and the wonderful professionals at the NHS NPAG.
We now look forward to finalising the process of qualifications attainment for our existing candidates as we work through our Centre exit strategy.
By moving towards child learning and international consultancy, Toggle is embracing the opportunity to apply our Scottish, UK and EU experience to global contexts — continuing to work directly with governments, NGOs and development agencies to help them build capacity, design frameworks and deliver measurable results.
We have a pedigree in this field since the late 1990’s and the opportunities in the sector are increasing year on year. It is strange to think that this international consulting journey started with a totally random phone call from a civil servant at the Department of Trade and Industry one Friday evening back in 1998.
We have also been working hard to develop child educational resources and also to try and become more engage with the ISO management systems and their auditing.
These two areas of work have been particularly rewarding and we look forward to exploring new opportunities within these markets.
Our mission remains the same: empowering people and organisations to turn sustainability goals into operational success.
Our new direction:
Project CETAP in Bosnia & Herzegovina
A clear example of our future focus is Project CETAP — the Circular Economy Transition & Awareness Programme in Bosnia & Herzegovina. A 32 Month technical assistance project funded by the EU in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Through the CETAP project, Toggle is part of a team of international consulting companies, supporting BiH as they transition from a linear to a circular economy. It is an excellent project team of around 30 local and international experts. The project promotes resource recovery, recycling, and public engagement to reduce waste and foster a more sustainable future.
Our team contributes to strategy design, public-awareness planning, and stakeholder training — helping to embed practical circular-economy thinking into real-world systems. It’s a natural evolution of our ethos: turning learning into lasting change.
Southannan Estate and ENVA
Another example of our work in Scotland this time is as a strategic partner to both the Southannan Estate and ENVA in their End of Waste collaboration at Biglees Quarry in North Ayrshire.
Toggle have been working with both parties providing compliance support to the Estate and managing a transfer of Planning consents from an old ENVA partnership to the new collaboration with the Estate. Toggle will continue to work with both parties to facilitate progress on this exciting new project.
The project has significant potential and it has been a real pleasure working with Mile Montgomerie and Kenny Burns from the Estate side and Scott Newport at ENVA.
What this Change means for learners and partners
The decision to close our qualification centre does not mean we are stepping back from education — far from it. Our work will continue to include capacity-building, upskilling and knowledge transfer, but through integrated consultancy projects rather than accredited qualifications.
We will work with our External Quality Assurer Mr John Birch and the whole CIWM Team to ensure that our exit strategy is implemented in line with their collective expectations and those of our existing learners.
Here’s what you can expect:
• Current learners will be fully supported through to completion before March 2026.
• Partners and employers will continue to engage with our team — the same trusted professionals who helped deliver vocational excellence in Scotland.
• Clients and collaborators will gain access to expanded services in strategic consultancy, policy support, circular-economy planning, and international development.
In short, we are transforming from a qualification provider into a global partner for sustainability transition.
Reflecting with gratitude
Since our founding, we initially worked as part of the North of Scotland WAMITAB Centre back in the early 1990’s before becoming an independent WAMITAB centre, hundreds of learners have passed through the centre — earning recognised qualifications, building careers, managing waste safely and contributing to a greener, more resource-conscious economy.
We are deeply grateful for your trust and collaboration. The vocational centre has been a cornerstone of our identity, but we believe this evolution honours its legacy — taking everything we have learned and continue to apply it on a global stage.
Looking ahead
As we approach 2026, our focus is on international impact. The global circular-economy movement is accelerating, and Toggle is proud to be at the forefront of that shift — combining practical know-how, data-driven insight and human-centred design to deliver meaningful progress.
We look forward to continuing our work across Bosnia & Herzegovina, exploring partnerships in other World regions, and expanding our role in helping cities, institutions and communities embed circular principles in their operations.
Our vocational centre may be closing, but the Toggle pedigree in the sector is only growing stronger — broader, deeper and more global than ever.
Join us on the next step
To our learners, partners and friends — thank you for being part of our story so far.
We invite you to stay connected as we move into this exciting new phase. Together, we will continue to shape a circular future. We are a small business striving to make best practice the common practice.
