About the Network

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About the Network *

The Cambridgeshire With Purpose Network

Join us today and connect with our members!

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Why join the Network?

The With Purpose Network is revolutionising the way Cambridgeshire businesses and registered nonprofits connect, fostering efficient and meaningful collaborations both online and in person.

Our network facilitates seamless connections, allowing businesses to meet their Social Value, CSR and ESG goals while nonprofits gain essential support and investment.

Immerse yourself in our members-only LinkedIn Group, and a members area where we share top tips, provide information, and offer priority access to in-person networking events for members.

Businesses and nonprofits can connect to exchange support, swap skills, receive financial suppport, share updates and news, and acquire the knowledge and resources essential for building powerful and sustainable partnerships that benefit communities and businesses across Cambridgeshire.

Our Valued Sponsors and Partners at the With Purpose Network & Events

10% Discount on Get Synergised Training

Early Priority Access for all events and training

15% Networking Events Discount

Connect: Collaborate: Innovate

Skills & Resources Hub

Non-profits can showcase partnership opportunities and by sharing offers, finances, room space, volunteer roles, and grants, businesses can more easily connect with non-profits.

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Learning & Resources Hub

As a member, you get exclusive access to content that is either free or discounted, aimed at developing your knowledge and providing top tips and tricks for collaborative partnership working.

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News Hub

Members can stay in the loop on activities, events, and developments from our wider partners doing great work in the city, which complements the network when made available.

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Mentoring Hub

Our Business Nonprofit Mentoring Hub enables mentoring between the sectors for professional and personal development. Information can be found within the network on how to join and get involved.

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Working Group Hub

It is important that our network operates purposefully. The WPN group is a forum for sharing updates, feedback, and ideas across sectors, to help shape our planning and development.

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Members Directory Hub

Members' contact information and details will be available in our Members Hub for ease of contacting, following up, and networking, alongside the LinkedIn Members-Only Online Group.

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Events Hub

Throughout the year, we will host events where members get priority access to bookings and discounts. All these will be in one place, ensuring you are the first to hear what's happening and what's coming up.

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Social Impact Hub

Social enterprises and charities can showcase their services, encouraging companies to explore sustainable supply chains by buying from socially minded local organisations.

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Networking Hub

An opportunity to network with like-minded individuals and decision-makers in organisations through the members only website area, exclusive LinkedIn Online Group, and priority access to the in-person Networking with Purpose Events.

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  • “This initiative, created by Rachel Hales of Get Synergised, helps the pressing need and growing desire from the business and charitable sectors to come together more frequently to help solve local and global challenges and to foster more meaningful cross-sector partnerships.”

    Nick Finlayson-Brown - Partner and Head of Office - Mills & Reeve

  • “At PwC we aim to align our purpose with areas which will have a positive impact on the local community. In Cambridge and East of England we are very much focused on how we can support the skilling of young people and improve social mobility. We are really looking forward the events and meeting like minded businesses and organisations.”

    Simon De Young - Senior Partner - PwC

  • “I attend the With Purpose Network in person events because I love making connections with people, you just never know what magic is going to happen when the right people are in the room.”

    Nicky Shepard - CEO - Abbey People

  • “The process of working with Rachel has enabled us to also put into place a strategic plan for our social responsibility aligned to Tees’ heritage and values, as a responsible way to do business but most importantly collaborating with our communities, clients, and employees to help more people to a better future.”

    Sally Powell - Partner & Co-Head - Tees' Corporate & Social Responsibility

  • “As a business, our objective is clearly to be profitable, but our ethos is that our business also has a responsibility to contribute to the wider community. Our aim is to ensure that both the business and our staff are engaged in supporting and making a positive impact. These sorts of networks can only be a good thing for the community as a whole.”

    Kevin Appleton - Head of Business - Group 1 BMW & MINI Cambridge

  • “I attended my first With Purpose Network in-person event one evening in November 2023. In the 'speed dating' session between businesses and community groups, I met Sarah Coates, Partner at Tees, who kindly offered to review, pro bono, the lease documentation for the warehouse venue from our prospective landlord when the time was right. We have now opened 'The Warehouse,' Cambridge's first community indoor skatepark. We are hugely grateful to Tees and the With Purpose Network & Community for the amazing pro bono support with our project!”

    Paul Elbro - Director - Cam Skate

  • “I attend the With Purpose Network in person events because I want to learn how I can work more effectively with businesses to get them involved in our work in a way that is enjoyable for their staff, productive for us, and above all over the long-term.”

    David Brockway - Product Development Manager - Form The Future

  • “Providing translation services for charities pro bono as a socially minded business and With Purpose Network member has been far more impactful than probably any of us in the business could have envisaged. When the whole team has been involved in the projects, and they get a response from the charity saying, ‘WOW, THIS IS AMAZING!!! UTTERLY AMAZING! HUGE, HUGE THANK YOU FOR THESE,’ it gave us all a huge warm fuzzy feeling and has really bonded us as a team”

    Mary Gilbey - Director - Anglia Translations Ltd

  • “Networking events through the With Purpose Network brought the alliance between myself and Hayley Norfolk, CEO at Home Start Cambridgeshire, together. Supporting this charity has been a powerful reminder of the impact wellbeing can have on those who give so much of their time and energy to helping others. The collaboration opportunities forged by the With Purpose Network, between Cambridgeshire nonprofits and local businesses, are absolutely vital for our community, and I’d encourage more to get involved.”

    Pauline Martin Wellbeing