We have been successful in the Big Venture Challenge and this is exciting for us as we have such an extraordinary amount of interest in Groop, but need to increase our team and make some new additions to the technology to take on some major contracts and also reflect the sporting sector’s needs. The BVC platform will leverage investment and we are already talking to interested parties. It’s important that I take the time here to explain that it is extremely important to us that we bring on socially minded investors – it truly is the crux of everything we do. We are scrutinising them as much as they scrutinise us.
Lengthy procurement procedures tend to slow things down (patience Sally, patience) but we think we are nearly there with our next three Local Authorities/voluntary bodies. We know we are in for the long haul – we talked to the Cabinet Office about the huge social change we are embarking on – changing the way people who run groups, operate their clubs and moving from ‘the little black book’ to a digital system.
Exciting stuff!
Sally
