Payback Exchange Lichfield: Charities, Care & Education Meet Local Business

A free morning connecting Lichfield’s charities, care and education organisations with local businesses keen to give time, skills or money. The Payback Exchange is coming to Lichfield Our fourth Payback Exchange is at the Garrick’s brand new Creative Hub on Wade Street. It’s a space built for community and creativity, so it felt like the right home for this one. A big thank you to Matt Clay and the team at the Garrick for having us. What to expect • Every charity, care provider, school and community organisation gets one minute to share what they do and what help they need right now • Businesses get a minute too: who you are and how you’d like to support local organisations (and if you’re not sure yet, that’s fine, coming along to find out is the point) • Time afterwards to talk, swap details and follow up on anything that caught your ear This isn’t a room for selling to charities. The businesses come to give, whether that’s time, skills, expertise or money. Does it work? Yes. At our first event, Hobb IT met Caudwell Children. They’ve since volunteered with them and hosted their 30th anniversary charity silent auction in support of the charity. At Rugeley, Zephi met the founder of For A Child’s Heart and went on to build them a brand new website. Neither of those started with a cheque. They started with a conversation. Our last event at Staffordshire Chambers of Commerce had 37 people in the room. Let’s make Lichfield bigger. Who should come • Charities, care providers, schools and community groups looking for support • Local businesses wanting to do more for their community, whether that’s charity of the year, volunteering, skills or donations The details 📅 Thursday 10 December 2026, 9.30am – 12.30pm 📍 Garrick Creative Hub, Wade Street, Lichfield 🚗 No parking on site, but there are various public car parks within a short walk of Wade Street Pass it on Please share this with anyone who could benefit, whether that’s an organisation that needs a hand or a business that wants to give something back. The more of both we get in the room, the more good comes out of it. Hosted by Matt Small, T150 Energy and the Payback Scheme.