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Alaboo，但你不是订购外卖，而是从帮助老年人购物的机会中选择，提供一个友好的电话，或者为一个足不出户的人跑腿。想象一下，机会是基于您的确切邮政编码，所以事情显示在附近或能够远程完成。想象一下，这一切都是按需的，所以你可以滚动这些机会，选择一个现在，并立即能够去做它。onHand是一个早期的企业志愿服务平台，有100多个企业合作伙伴和超过20,000个应用程序用户。这些用户在2021年在英国各地提供了超过30，000件好事。以上开头的描述是我们迄今为止所做的，但我们还可以做更多的事情。今天，onHand将经过审查的志愿者与需要帮助的老年人和弱势群体相匹配，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，我们都在努力解决一些事情--从把垃圾箱拿出去到简单地换个灯泡。随着年龄的增长，这些任务限制了我们的独立生活。我们能够从服务不足的企业志愿者市场挖掘需求，提供帮助。这使我们能够以当今解决方案的一小部分成本和NHS资源最紧张的情况下帮助解决社会最紧迫的问题之一。onHand的志愿者匹配平台已经成为一个颠覆者，使用技术来简化志愿者和老年人的联系方式。我们的平台得到了多个行业专家的好评，如国家老龄化创新中心，并赢得了多个奖项，包括市长龙奖最佳新冠应对奖和关怀奖最佳移动应用奖。我们的概念在伦敦得到了数千名用户的测试和证明，在过去的18个月里，我们已经在更多的城市开始试点，与独立年龄（英国第二大年龄慈善机构），NHS团队，红十字会和其他人介绍老年人到我们这里寻求帮助。赠款资金将使我们能够投资于我们的技术，确保在英国产生影响，并应用项目学习来达到市场准备。

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.