Octopus Giving is the charitable foundation of Octopus Group. We are Octopus’s way of giving back to the communities that we work in and supporting charities that make the world a better place. Our vision is to be a catalyst and enabler for increasing charitable impact and the main way we do this is through our charitable partnerships.
Following a fantastic 3 years our partnership with GoodGym has recently come to a close. We can’t thank the team at GoodGym enough for such a wonderful partnership! Together our aim was to build a true and equal partnership and working with GoodGym over the past 3 years has been a privilege. It is through GoodGym that our people have found a phenomenal pathway to connecting directly with our local communities in a truly meaningful way that has added so much value. We cannot thank the team at GoodGym enough for all of their commitment to the partnership over the past 3 years.
Making a difference on your doorstep is important to so many Octopus people but we found sometimes people don’t know where to start. GoodGym’s platform connected our people to their local community initiatives in a way that was incredibly accessible while also fostering truly helpful impact at grassroots level. Over the 3 years Octopus people have rolled up their sleeves giving 1770 hours of volunteering to communities across London all because of GoodGym.
Alongside giving their time to local communities, Octopus People have passionately got behind the people powering GoodGym, sharing their skills and knowledge. We have collaborated to utilise and get creative with all of Octopus’s resources to uplift and enable the GoodGym team to reach new heights. Our people have offered their time mentoring the GoodGym team. GoodGym joined us in our in-house training sessions, and we have invited GoodGym to share our office space so that their core team can work and collaborate through the partnership and onwards.
Collaboration has been at the heart of the partnership, with both sides learning from the other. We asked GoodGym’s CEO and Founder, Ivo, to look back on the partnership and share with us their experience:
“The Octopus partnership has continued to be the most productive partner GoodGym has had, with its impact seen across the entire organisation. It has been a supportive and collaborative partnership, where you don’t feel that what you do as a charity is somehow lesser than what Octopus is doing. You feel like you are on a par, and they’re there to help you if you need it. Working with Octopus has given us a blueprint for how we work with partners in the future.”
GoodGym is a charity that every Octopus person has strongly connected to throughout the partnership. On behalf of everyone at Octopus, we extend a heartfelt thank you and express our gratitude for the opportunity to partner with GoodGym.
