# Charities offered free business advice matching service

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2013/03/06/charities-offered-free-business-advice-matching-service/
- Published: 2013-03-06T12:16:42+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Business coaching consultants Tinder-Box are inviting charities and social enterprises
to be matched with businesses that will work with them for free to share skills 
and solve problems.

Tinder-Box's Enterprise programme is available to not-for-profit organisations that
have a specific business challenge that they need help with. There is no charge 
to the charities and social enterprises selected. It is designed to bring business
leaders and third sector organisations together to share skills and experience and
solve real issues.

Carole Miller, founding partner at Tinder-Box said: "We have partnered various social
enterprises and charities in the past from Health in Mind and Sandwell Women’s Aid
to The Comedy School so we know how they work and we know what an inspiration they
can be for businesses – from major corporates to SMEs. Our clients who have taken
part in our Enterprise programme include several teams from Lloyds Banking Group."

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## How it works

Once Tinder-Box has worked with a selected social enterprise or charity to identify
its specific business objective, it matches it with the client who "has the most
appropriate skills, objectives and passions to achieve the best fit".

The Tinder-Box team then creates a bespoke programme for its client and the enterprise
partner. This typically involves both organisations doing some initial exploration
of the challenge together and culminates in a two day event where they work together
to come up with potential solutions.

Carole Miller commented that the experience can lead to future partnerships: "There
is no obligation to extend the relationship beyond the programme. However, in the
past we have found that clients have volunteered to sit on the boards of the social
enterprises or have become mentors on an on-going basis."

www.tinder-box.co.uk

 

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