Guildford Philanthropy’s Corporate Ambassadors can provide not only financial support but are also encouraged to get involved and participate in local initiatives supported by the trust.
Cressive DX is one Corporate Ambassador doing just that. The team from Cressive DX this summer paid a visit to the Matrix Trust to meet Misty Bower, CEO of Matrix, accompanied by Peter Cluff, Chairman of Guildford Philanthropy. The Matrix Trust, a Surrey based charity supporting and encouraging disadvantaged young people, is just one of the social enterprises benefiting from Guildford Philanthropy in the local area.
Misty personally met and toured the team around the Matrix offices, based in the Allen House Gardens in Guildford; an open green space and gentile oasis of calm situated right next to the heart of the bustling town centre, but quieter and underexploited since the decline of the bowling green and its club – perhaps the perfect location for a new social enterprise initiative.
Matrix’s plan is to turn their office space opposite the bowling green into a social enterprise cafe and youth hub. A new cafe to exploit the town centre location and provide opportunities for young people to be directly involved in its running, serving “coffee with a purpose”, along with a new larger learning space for young people in which to meet. Misty is busy now in the planning, assisted by Guildford Philanthropy, ahead of a planned launch of their new guildford cafe in early 2020. She is keen for local businesses to be part of exciting opportunity, assisting hands-on and with sponsorship.
Our Corporate Ambassadors are showing it is not just financial support they can provide, but also connecting personnally with the community initiatives we support. The can bring their teams of employees, with and their skills and time, to the good of local social enterprise causes. Cressive DX has started to provide its digital expertise to support Matrix in planning the website and online promotion aspects of the new cafe, and are hoping to join Misty and her team for lattes and pastries in the beautiful Guildford gardens very soon.
