Good for Nothing

Good for Nothing is a platform which supports a community of people who give their time, skills and energy to make a positive impact on charities, social enterprises and other good causes.

Website: www.goodfornothing.com

GFN (Good for Nothing) is about Collaborating for Good.  It's about working with people, ideas and enterprises who are leading the way to what a flourishing, sustainable 21st century society might look like.

Right now Good for Nothing works in two main ways. Firstly, the Good for Nothing community attends creative collaborations / hack / do events over 24 to 48hrs. They work with charities, social enterprises and other good causes to develop their ideas or work on existing problems. They collaborate by giving their time, skills and energy for free and experiment in working in new, faster, fun and better ways.

Secondly, the GFN team is building an online platform to identify positive challenges for the community to work on and to facilitate collaboration beyond the events. Working with 21 UK organisations over the last 14 months the team has built a web community of over 550 people who get involved in to do Good for Nothing.

The Award: Good for Nothing have been awarded £100,000 to build a web platform to enable the giving of time and support before, during and after the GFN events; expand GFN across the UK by rolling out events in new cities like Manchester and Bristol; develop an open source toolkit and training workshop.

Contacts

• Dan Burgess Co-founder; dan.burgess@pipelineideas.com
• Tom Farrand Co-founder; tom.farrand@pipelineideas.com
• Tom Rowley Co-founder: tom.rowley@pipelineideas.com