The matchmaking marketplace for social value partnerships

EY has set an ambitious global target to positively impact one billion lives by 2030 through our Global Corporate Responsibility Programme, EY Ripples. By working with whatimpact, we hope our people across the UK will be able to use their professional skills to help more charities and social enterprises overcome some of the business challenges they face, enabling them to have an even greater impact on the people and communities they work with.

We’ve found the team at whatimpact.com, in particular Grace and Eugenia, to be fantastically helpful in familiarising us with the platform, and making it work well both for us and the charities we engage with. Using the platform has helped us consolidate the various strands of our social value activities. We’ve been able to focus on making our actions more tangible and measurable, and therefore more meaningful and easier to share with our staff and clients. The process of finding partners to work with has been quick and easy. In fact it has been really hard to select just one or two partners, as all applicants for our offers have been highly suitable and doing great work.

We have been trialling whatimpact as a way of gathering causes in need of our help. 90% of our application shortlist were via applicants applying directly through the platform. The application makes connecting with charitable partners easy and gives us handy reports to help standardise the process of evidencing our social value work.

One of the reasons we decided to work with whatimpact was that all the leg work is done for you, the website allows people to filter their searches for support by Area, “Key Words” and type of support needed and then the website will send an email directly to me notifying that we have a potential partner interested in support. It’s a great time saver and also a fantastic way to ensure that as many charities and community groups are accessing our social value fund as possible.

Novus has made a real difference to our building, repainted it with great care and attention to detail. Difference it made to the space is truly astonishing, it looks inviting, warm and clean. Our members absolutely love the new look and feel of the space. This much needed refurbishment wouldn’t have been possible without generosity of Novus and their team.

Huge thank you to Impactara Ltd who spent the day with us on Monday, helping us to fully understand our social business model and maximise our social impact goals using various innovative tools. Feeling very inspired!