# Workwithus launches online marketplace for voluntary organisations

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/02/19/workwithus-launches-online-marketplace-voluntary-organisations/
- Published: 2004-02-19T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Scottish voluntary sector portal workwithus has launched 3rdforcebuying.com, a
procurement resource to help match voluntary organisations with suppliers of relevant
products and services.**

3rdForceBuying.com is “a selling and buying marketplace designed especially for 
charities and voluntary organisations to find a range of suitable products and services
to buy.” Currently it lists suppliers in the categories of design & publishing, 
events management, training, business services, office & IT, utilities & telecoms,
and miscellaneous.

The online directory is designed to help Scotland’s 50,000 voluntary organisations
locate and access the services of relevant commercial suppliers. Workwithus, published
by the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVo), is encouraging companies
to advertise their services and products to the “£2 billion [Scottish] Voluntary
Sector.” They charge £100 a year, but will halve this in return for a link from 
the company’s site to the Workwithus site.

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Business to business sites have a tremendous potential to help reduce costs for 
charities, many of whose buying expertise is still not as developed as it could 
be. Currently, however, 3rdforcebuying.com is simply a directory with no e-commerce
element involved. Although the individual category listings are actually part of
the workwithus.org site, they are not otherwise linked in to related content, as
on UK Fundraising, on the wortwithus.org portal.

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