Community Platform

Empowering communities of change

Leverage helps community organisations run food markets, support guests, and coordinate teams — all in one place.

Built for the people who serve people

Leverage is an app platform designed for community organisations running food markets and support services. It helps staff manage guest access, track wellbeing, coordinate check-ins and checkouts, and keep the whole team informed — so they can focus on what matters most: the community.

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Market management

Guest check-in, checkout, access tracking and visit history.

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Guest profiles

Contact details, wellbeing assessments, notes and mood tracking.

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Admin insights

Attendance, statistics and activity reporting for coordinators.

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Role-based access

Granular permissions so every team member sees what they need.

Leverage in action

Leverage is currently running for C3 Impact — a community food market serving families across Cambridge.

The problems we're addressing

Building community

Breaking down the us-and-them between guests and volunteers. Everyone has something to offer and something to gain — by working together we tackle loneliness and share love.

Scaling beyond key people

C3 Impact has many stories of lives changed, but reach is limited by the capacity of a few core volunteers. We need processes and shared information that spread the knowledge and responsibility.

Efficiency without losing the personal

Hold records securely while giving the right people the right access — so guests feel known instead of asked their name every week, and new people can find their way in.

What we're working towards

By doing the small things consistently, Leverage helps unlock bigger outcomes for the community.

Diagram showing Leverage mobile apps, messaging, public portal, admin dashboard and reports all connected to a shared database and filestore
A suite of mobile apps and web tools sharing one database — so every part of the work joins up.
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More engagement

Deeper participation across programmes.

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Stronger relationships

More connections inside the Impact community.

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More opportunity

Wider possibilities for individuals to benefit.

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More volunteers

Easier paths in for new helpers.

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Sustained donations

Increased and reliable food supply.

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Less reporting burden

Accurate data ready when it's needed.

What we believe

Three principles shape every tool we build.

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Community

  • Encourages relationships, not transactions.
  • Respects every individual's situation — no forcing people into linear processes.
  • Doesn't depend on one person to be the hub.
  • Gives agency and respect, not a faceless system.

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Visibility

  • Creates journeys, not pipelines — signposts the next step.
  • Profiles celebrate who someone is, not just what they need.
  • Shares real-time needs (food, donations, volunteers) so the community can respond.
  • Clear separation between public profile, personal history, and admin notes.

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Simplicity

  • Focused apps for specific actions — approachable without training.
  • Modular — new features ship when they're ready.
  • Flexible and sustainable — not brittle when needs change.
  • Simplicity is hard, so it's a core principle.

Could you use some Leverage?

We'd love to hear from other organisations running community programmes — food markets, support services, volunteer teams — who think Leverage could help. We're keen to share what we've built and learn from how you work.

C3 Impact community market trolleys lined up ready for a Wednesday market