GIVING PLATFORM NEIGHBOURLY EXPANDS CAPABILITY TO SUPPORT MID-SIZED BUSINESSES

Neighbourly, the Bristol-based giving platform that matches businesses with local good causes, is doing more to help medium-sized enterprises increase their local social and environmental impact.

New features have been built into the platform specifically to help mid-tier organisations find and support local charities and causes their sta and customers care about, across Bristol and beyond through employee volunteering, surplus product redistribution and financial donations.

The features not only create transparency around what’s needed locally but also enable companies to measure the positive e ect of their giving programmes through real-time impact dashboards which provide social and environmental metrics for ESG and sustainability reporting.

To date, the Neighbourly platform has worked exclusively with enterprise-sized businesses and facilitated the donation of more than 120,000 volunteer hours, £23 million in funding, and more than 125 million meals worth of surplus food. This equates to a total financial impact of more than £255 million and a C02 saving of 198k tonnes, the organisations says.

Neighbourly has supported numerous international businesses global brands including M&S, WSP, Aldi, Gallagher, Lidl, Samsung, B&Q and Virgin Media O2 to deliver UK-wide but locally driven giving programmes.

Now the focus is on engaging the midmarket business community through a city-led activation strategy – starting with Bristol – with a call for leading businesses from across the area to sign up and be part of the movement to create £1bn in impact by 2025.

Neighbourly’s network includes more than 25,000 vetted charities and local community groups – in the Bristol region alone there are more than 800 good causes on the platform, including schools, community centres, parks and homelessness charities seeking help.

Neighbourly CEO Steve Butterworth said, “Our home city was an obvious choice to kick o our mid-tier launch plan. Bristol has an abundance of successful businesses that operate in the heart of their local communities. Using the Neighbourly platform will enable businesses to help build happy, healthy, and more resilient neighbourhoods and to measure their positive impact, which is truly unique to Neighbourly.”

Neighbourly says it is currently the only platform which enables businesses to manage all their local giving in one place, helping companies to put their communities at the heart of responsible business.

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