Jump This Week – Going UP!

I suspect many of you a familiar with the Sunday Star*Times regular column about what’s going up and what’s going down.

From time to time we get “Going Up” feedback from Jump partners and I felt that one we received this week was worth sharing.

This came from a community partner in a rural town that prepares a Skinny Jump Accountability Report for their trustees; this summarised barriers they faced and their achievements.

Not surprisingly, amongst the barriers they identified:

1. limited supplies of modems, delaying the delivery of Jump;
2. cell tower capacity, limiting the availability of Jump;
3. customers with old mobile phones that didn’t support the Jump app;
4. incorrect email addresses and forgotten passwords when registering for Jump.

But despite these barriers they reported a stunning achievement:

Completing 529 Jump registrations since March 2020, reaching over 16% of all households in the district!

Overall they summed up their experience with Jump as:

1. Skinny Jump has played and will continue to play a vital role in the community.
2. With the advancement IT and recently AI, by today’s standards, the ability to have connectivity is inevitable.
3. We continue to get positive feedback from the community for they appreciate the time and effort taken during the registering process.

I know other partners provide regular updates to their managers and governance groups. Please keep doing this. One wise manager that I used to work with decades ago encouraged me to budget for ‘promotion’ as part of the project: “What’s the point of good works if no-one knows about it,” he said.