#50 Scaling a tech platform helping small businesses to give, Danny Witter founder of Work for Good

Danny Witter joined Purposely Podcast to share his co-founder story with Work for Good Danny spent 25 years in the City of London, including 17 years at Deutsche Bank where he worked with a range of FTSE100 corporate clients, to being the Chair of the UK Corporate Citizenship Committee to his non-executive directorships including Shakespeare’s Globe, The Microloan Foundation, Shape History and Ivy House Learning. Danny’s philanthropic work has led him to co-found Work for Good and is now on mission to change the face of business giving. Work for Good’s mission is to help charities raise funds from purpose driven small businesses. They enable small businesses to give to good causes at the same time including their giving into their brand story. It can seem overwhelming for businesses researching how to work with a charity and that is where Work For Good comes in, not only do they do the matching they also take care of the legal stuff and facilitate the giving transactions. Danny explain’s how Work for Good is actually the brainchild of Danny’s Co-founder Rupert Pick, who was inspired to give back to the amazing hospital staff who care for his daughter Ottie. Ottie was born 10 weeks premature, weighing less than 3lbs and with two rare genetic conditions that affect both her bones and her heart. When Rupert decided to donate the fees from his next workshop to the Evelina London Children’s Hospital, it made him wonder about all the wonderful things that could happen if only more businesses chose to give through their work. Work for Good was then formed to help businesses give and Danny joined offering seed funding as well as his time and expertise to get the platform built. 5 years on they have engaged thousands of businesses and good causes and on their way to creating a sustainable businesses doing good. https://workforgood.co.uk/