…for missing January’s newsletter. No excuses – it’s been such a busy time at work and at home that we had to let this slide.
Hopefully some of you out there will empathise with us here at the Social Value Exchange! The boss has had two kids at home, which has hampered his productivity, and we’ve seen partners come down with Covid.
New product
At the same time, the office is buzzing as we’re just about to ship a brand new product. We are a product business after all and it’s been great to see the development team get its teeth into something new. And to see just how productive they’ve been, especially in these unusual circumstances. Props!
It fits really well into our product portfolio and we’ll be shipping this in mid March, so definitely more to share with you in the next newsletter.
Carbon emissions project
We’re working with Balfour Beatty, Network Rail, Brent Council, Orbit and Ecotricity (the team behind this AMAZING thing) on a really interesting research project (funded by our friends at the Paul Hamlyn Foundation) that’s looking at how to reduce Scope 3 emissions (in the supply chain). Worth a look at this report to see why this is so important.
On the delivery side
We’re getting going with Sovereign Housing Association – we will have some big procurements going through the Social Value Exchange in the next couple of quarters.
We’re also getting going with Hackney Council, working closely with Jake Ferguson’s team Hackney CVS. Really excited by this – a really interesting place, great people, lots of challenges.
The team is also back in Birmingham, working on a secret project for the City Council – it’s been great working with the stakeholders up there and looking forward to sharing more next month #MatchMyProject.
Tackling digital exclusion
We’re talking to the London Office for Technology and Innovation and Nominet – exploring how we can use the Social Value Exchange to tackle the important and genuinely solvable problem of the ‘digital divide’. More on this next month.
Thanks for reading. It’s good to be back. We’d love to hear from you…
Get in touch with the team.
Email: hello@socialvalueexchange.org
Telephone: 020 3488 6223