Due to the impact of the CoVID-19 pandemic, original plans for a face-to-face kick-off meeting in Birmingham had to be changed and instead, a virtual event was held on the 18th of March on ZOOM. The focus of this first meeting was to refine the research and implementation plans of the individual work packages, and to integrated those plans across the key work programmes around the design and implementation of the data infrastructure, the development of the the priority science objectives and establishing evaluation and quality assurance & control processes.