Do you know any teachers that are losing sleep over how their students can work online at home? If so, please share this blog from our founder with them.

Yesterday I received a letter from the headteacher of our daughter’s primary school. In it, he set out how the school would allocate digital devices to support homeschooling. 

It’s an issue I’ve been aware of, but this was jarring. Some of our daughter’s friends won’t be able to keep up because they don’t have a laptop at home. It shouldn’t become more of an issue because of its proximity, but it struck a chord. 

Over the Summer 2020, the use of our platform – the Social Value Exchange – by our customers resulted in a number of laptops being shared with under-served households in east London. How does it work? We use an eAuction to leverage procurement spend – to incentivise suppliers to put something back in the local community. In this case – laptops. 

By our maths, for every £100k of procurement spend, we can generate 15 laptops. 

For the duration of the national lockdown, the use of our product will be free for all primary and secondary schools in the UK. 

Please get in touch with me dan@socialvalueexchange.org or the team at hello@socialvalueexchange.org.