Uber for volunteering

想象一下，在你的手机上滚动寻找提供帮助的机会。就像Deliveroo一样，但你不是订购外卖，而是从帮助老人取货、给朋友打电话或为在家的人跑跑腿的机会中选择。想象一下，这些机会是基于你确切的邮政编码的，所以事情会在附近出现，或者可以远程完成。想象一下，这一切都是按需的，所以你可以滚动这些机会，现在选择一个，并立即能够去做。onHand是一个早期的企业志愿者平台，拥有100多家企业合作伙伴和超过2万的应用用户。2021年，这些用户在英国各地做了3万多件好事。上述开头的描述是我们迄今为止所建立的，但我们可以做的还有很多。如今，onHand将经过审查的志愿者与老年人和弱势群体配对，这些人需要帮助完成简单的任务，如购物、取药/送药、紧急差事和其他必需品。随着年龄的增长，我们都会为一些事情而挣扎——从倒垃圾桶到简单地换一个灯泡。随着年龄的增长，这些任务共同限制了我们的独立生活。我们已经能够利用服务不足的企业志愿者市场的需求来提供帮助。这使我们能够帮助解决社会最紧迫的问题之一，在今天的解决方案的成本的一小部分，当NHS资源最紧张。onHand的志愿者配对平台已经成为一个颠覆者，它利用科技简化了志愿者和老年人的联系方式。对我们平台的响应得到了国家老龄化创新中心等多个行业专家的赞扬，并获得了多个奖项，包括市长龙奖最佳应对奖和护理奖最佳志愿应用。我们的理念已经在伦敦得到了数千名用户的测试和验证，在过去的18个月里，我们开始在其他城市进行试点，包括独立年龄（英国第二大年龄慈善机构）、NHS团队、红十字会和其他向我们推荐老年人寻求帮助的机构。拨款将使我们能够投资于我们的技术，确保在英国各地产生影响，并将项目学习应用于市场准备。

Imagine scrolling on your phone to find opportunities to give help. Just like Deliveroo, but instead of ordering a take-away you're selecting from opportunities to help an elderly person pick up their shopping, provide a befriending call or run a small errand for someone who is housebound. Imagine the opportunities are based on your exact postcode, so things show up close-by or are able to be done remotely. Imagine that it's all on-demand, so you can scroll those opportunities, select one right now and instantly be able to go and do it.onHand is an early stage corporate volunteering platform, with 100+ corporate partners and over 20,000 app users. Those users delivered over 30,000 good deeds across the UK in 2021\. The above opening description is what we have built to date, but there is so much more we can do.Today, onHand matches vetted volunteers with older adults and vulnerable people who need help with simple tasks such as shopping, medicine collection/drop offs, urgent errands and other essentials. Things we all struggle with as we age - from taking the bins out to simply changing a light bulb. Collectively these tasks restrict us living independently as we age.We have been able to tap into demand to help from the under-served corporate volunteer market. This enables us to help address one of society's most pressing issues at a fraction of the cost of today's solutions and when NHS resources are most strained.onHand's volunteer matching platform has established itself as a disruptor, using tech to simplify the way volunteers and older adults connect. The response to our platform has been applauded by various industry experts such as the National Innovation Centre for Ageing and with multiple award wins including the Lord Mayor's Dragon Awards for Best Covid Response and Best Volunteering App at the Care Awards.Our concept has been tested and proven in London by thousands of users and in last 18 months we have began pilots in further cities, with Independent Age (the UK's second largest age charity), NHS teams, the Red Cross and others referring elderly adults to us for help across the country. Grant funding would allow us to invest in our technology, ensure impact delivery across the UK and apply project learnings to reach market readiness.