We had a fantastic launch last week in Cambridge.

Thanks to the Cambridge City Council team for getting the project up and running and for the launch itself. 

Cambridge is known as an innovation centre. In the past, Match My Project has been called innovative. But matching up businesses with community projects to deliver Social Value always felt like common sense. 

Businesses need to deliver Social Value, have resources to share, but may not have the local knowledge.

Community organisations deliver Social Value, albeit by another name, they understand where the local challenges are, what the local history is, where the local networks are, but lack the resources.

Put the two together and you have a win-win. 

But the devil is in the detail.

That’s why the launch was such an important to ensure everyone in the room came away feeling they knew how to access all the opportunities to deliver Social Value on the platform.

Or that if they didn’t, they knew how to get help.

We think we achieved that.

It was also a great opportunity the Match My Project team to get in front of Cambridge’s networks of community and business organisations so they could see we’re all about and put faces to names. 

We’re really proud of how good our team is at helping the people that use our tools.

And it’s really important for you to give us the feedback…

Yes, Match My Project is an organisation that helps to deliver Social Value, but we’re also very much a product business. 

Hearing from the people that use our tools on a regular basis is gold for our team, who can use that feedback to continuously improve the tools, which hopefully means you use them even more.

Finally and most importantly, it is worth emphasising that, for all the hard work the Match My Project team puts into building Match My Project, we don’t deliver Social Value. 

Authorities, their suppliers and community organisations – like those at the Cambridge launch – do. We make it easier for these organisations to collaborate, but it’s people in those organisations that make it happen.

That’s really important.

Delivering Social Value is really important. 

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