Monday 9 December 2019

Monday 9th December 2019 - How do we protect our project?

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Posted 8:45pm

HMHB is not saying that our desired objectives and outcomes are unique to us - not by a long way. We, along with many organisations around mental health, all are aiming to improve people's lives, boost confidence and self-awareness, and provide tools that people can use both now and in the future.

But HMHB does have quite a unique approach and delivery - and we know that as we have all gone through issues ourselves, and nobody has provided intervention in the way that we do. It's one of our USPs (Unique Selling Points).

However, without seed funding at the moment, and needing to provide evidence of our worth, our outcomes, and our professionalism, all means we have to demonstrate our structure and delivery to other organisations. The danger then comes in that they will just copy us.

Now, an idea is just one per cent of the overall product. The main thing is in the preparation, the concept, the foundations, and all the effort and work that goes into producing and creating an incredible intervention.

So far, Lazza has comes across five different organisations who have either taken our idea amd tried to do it themselves, or have adjusted their own intervention to include bits of our own. From the evidence he has received, all these bigger organisations have failed to replicate the success and feedback that HMHB has gained with its Ajani.  But without money, we cannot fully accomplish our potential.

It's like a vicious circle. We are asked to prove ourselves, but with no, or little, funds, and larger companies then take our idea, spend their money, and do not provide the same project!!!

All we want is a reasonable chance. An opportunity. It is more important than ever we do well between January and March in Camden and Islington.

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