For a second consecutive year civil organsiations from the town and the region met with representatives of the business to find mutually beneficiary opportunities for cooperation by offering and looking for goods, materials, services and voluntary work.

Georgi Titukov, Deputy Mayor of Plovdiv supported the organisation and officially opened the marketplace by ringing the gong. He wished the participants that the marketplace becomes a traditional even in Plovdiv.

New organisations joined the marketplace this year after attending a preliminary training for good cooperation with the business.

The marketplace was organised with the participation of many volunteers who had a special role and contributed a lot for the success of the event. These are the journalist Ekaterina Kostova, who contributed for a second year; the notaries Milena Zlatanova, chief inspector at Department of education and development at Plovdiv municipality and Kremena Angelova, chief accountant at Konstantin Velichkov school; the brokers – Petko Chochev, deputy mayor of Maritsa Municipality and Georgi Staikov from Maritsa Association; the photographers Milen Neikov and Stefan Stefanov fro Gender Alternatives foundation and the young volunteers from the National Alliance for Voluntary Action.

As usual the marketplace lasted for about an hour. The results were announced after the final gong - 39 agreements have been signed for a total of 79 650 leva. This is the largest amount for a singe marketplace so far in the country.

Two businesses = ORM.bg and “Pina de” realized hirst number of deals – 5 agreements each. Community club Svetlina was the most active civil organisation and the team left the marketplace with 14 signed agreements.

The marketplace in Plovdiv was realized by Tulip Foundation in cooperation with local civil organisations and with the support of Plovdiv Municipality and the Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe.

Article in EuroPlovdiv.com (in Bulgarian language).