The charity sector is huge. In total income, it’s twice the size of the advertising, fashion and restaurant industries, combined. But it’s also extremely underserved by tech platforms to support the work they do.
That’s what we’re solving. An AI platform for all charities, particularly the smaller, local organisations. That saves them from millions of hours of bureaucracy, helps more people access their services, and supports them to get more funding.
We’re not a simple point solution. It’s a comprehensive platform, solving everything from safeguarding information, writing funding applications, taking bookings for venues/activities, giving grants and statutory reporting on Government contracts.
It becomes the system of record for the organisations we work with. On top of this record, we’re building tools to allow charities to deeply understand their impact (with mapping, visualisation and analysis) and to use this information to get more funding — through generating impact reports and funding applications with AI.
As a result of this, one day you could be working on changes to our grant management system for large grant makers or the next you could be figuring out how to improve the onboarding flow for small charities wanting to run events. It’s a broad product with plenty of room for you to define what you’d like to work on.
We’re a team of 15 and growing fast. We have over 1,500 charities and 45 foundations using the platform, and we’re working with funders powering £55 million worth of charitable funding annually, which is growing 4x every year.
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Charities come first. While they don’t pay us, they are the people we need to be focusing on: supporting them to work towards their own missions more effectively. Being trusted by them is the most important thing.
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Childish enthusiasm is better than professional cynicism.
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Open and transparent. Better to be appear dumb than pretend you understand.
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Never the delay. Things move slowly in our sector, but we’re not going to be responsible for it. We need to be unreasonably fast.
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Driven by the mission. We’re going to work hard, because getting this right could be massive.
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There are no ninjas, there is no door. We need to figure out how to solve the tricky problems ourselves, because no one else is going to.