Neighbourly is a community impact and giving platform based in Bristol, UK. The platform hosts pages for upwards of 18,000 small charities and community organisations across the UK and Ireland, connecting them with businesses offering surplus food and products, volunteer time and financial donations.
For example, supermarket chains including
Aldi
Aldi (stylised as ALDI) is the common company brand name of two German multinational family-owned discount supermarket chains operating over 10,000 stores in 20 countries. The chain was founded by brothers Karl and Theo Albrecht in 1946, when ...
,
Lidl
Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG (; ) is a German international discount retailer chain that operates over 11,000 stores across Europe and the United States. Headquartered in Neckarsulm, Baden-Württemberg, the company belongs to the Schwarz Group, whi ...
,
Marks and Spencer and
Sainsbury's
J Sainsbury plc, trading as Sainsbury's, is the second largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom, with a 14.6% share of UK supermarket sales.
Founded in 1869 by John James Sainsbury with a shop in Drury Lane, London, the company ...
have partnered with Neighbourly to redistribute surplus food to food banks and community groups.
Neighbourly has also partnered with
Penguin,
Danone
Danone S.A. () is a French multinational food-products corporation based in Paris. It was founded in Barcelona, Spain. It is listed on Euronext Paris where it is a component of the CAC 40 stock market index. Some of the company's products are ...
,
Coca-Cola EP,
Heineken
Heineken Lager Beer ( nl, Heineken Pilsener), or simply Heineken () is a pale lager beer with 5% alcohol by volume produced by the Dutch brewing company Heineken N.V. Heineken beer is sold in a green bottle with a red star.
History
On 15 Feb ...
,
Southern Co-op and
Starbucks to manage and deliver their corporate impact programmes - such as employee volunteering and charitable grant distribution.
Neighbourly was founded in 2013 by Nick Davies, who appointed Zoe Colosimo as COO. In 2016, Steve Butterworth took over the company as chief executive officer. The company is one of the UK’s founding
B Corps and is accredited by the Good Business Charter.
In March 2021, Neighbourly raised £3M in Series A investment from Guinness Asset Management to expand their senior leadership team and accelerate the growth of the business.
Neighbourly Foundation
In 2020, Neighbourly set up a charitable arm - the Neighbourly Foundation - which works to funnel donations and grant money from its donors and partners directly to charities and community groups that are registered on the platform.
Awards
In 2020 Neighbourly was ranked in the RWRC Discovery 50 - a list comprising the top 50 retail tech start-ups operating globally. The company was also voted the People's Choice at the Digital Agenda Impact Awards 2020 and won the Tech Company of the Year (for revenues under £5M) and Sustainable Tech Awards at the Tech South West Awards 2020.
In 2021 Neighbourly won the Sustainability Initiative of the Year award at Food Matters Live, Best Community Initiative at the CorpComms Awards and the Social Value award at the National Recycling Awards. They were also shortlisted for an award at the Edie Sustainability Leaders Awards
[{{Cite web, title=2022 Finalists, url=https://event.edie.net/awards/2022-finalists/, access-date=2021-12-23, website=edie Sustainability Leaders Awards 2022, language=en-GB] which is due to take place in February 2022.
References
Companies of the United Kingdom
B Lab-certified corporations