Volunteero - Improving the lives of those who are socially isolated and lonely

Volunteero是一个让志愿服务像点击一个按钮一样简单的平台。任何尝试过做志愿者的人都可以告诉你，这是一个布满繁文缛节的雷区。90%的人声称想做志愿者，只有20%的人做了。为什么呢？做志愿者并不容易，以下是一些最常见的不做志愿者的原因：*找不到合适的组织*报名和培训过程缓慢且效率低下*志愿者机会往往不灵活*人们害怕做出长期承诺。如果这些对任何读得好的人来说都是正确的，我们正在改变这一切。自愿者是一个应用程序，允许您：*找到组织，其社会事业是一个你热爱*注册并完成所需的培训都在应用程序本身*找到个人的任务，可以单独完成的任务，最适合你的能力和时间表的任务*完成任务并记录你的经验无论你完成1个任务或1000个，你都能够做出真正的改变！我们认为，任何想做志愿者的人都不应该有正当的借口不去做。我们的目标是提高全球志愿服务的比例，但也要确保每个志愿者都能获得他们最关心和最适合的机会。Volunteero是由来自欧洲不同国家的3位朋友建立的，他们都是志愿者，都真诚地希望让世界变得更美好。影响力扩展基金将帮助我们进一步开发平台，使更多的组织可以使用它，从而为有需要的人提供更多帮助。与我们最初的合作伙伴Age UK Gateshead合作，以及与100多个其他慈善机构的对话，使我们对慈善机构的要求有了更好的了解。系统分裂是慈善机构关注的一个关键问题，首先是因为预算压力增加，还因为双重处理、培训等给工作人员带来了额外的压力。因此，慈善机构要求我们的平台能够满足志愿者可以为他们执行的所有任务，然后才能让他们采用Volunteero。我们扩大影响力基金的重点将是支持志愿者在任何慈善机构开展的所有可能的任务。我们将建立一个灵活的框架，使慈善机构可以创建任务类型，并添加任何功能，需要支持，例如，电话，审批工作流程，位置服务，文件上传等。这意味着Volunteero基本上可以向16.8万个志愿者组织中的任何一个出售产品，并允许我们与有兴趣但要求这项新功能的慈善机构合作。为了证明我们迄今为止在支持电话交友方面所取得的成功，下面我列出了我们与Age UK Gateshead合作的案例研究的亮点。——志愿者的工作效率提高了280%——每个员工每月节省一周时间——活跃志愿者的数量增加了70%，Age UK Gateshead的业务发展主管朱莉·拉蒂默（julie Latimer）是这样评价这个平台的。“志愿服务为我们节省了很多时间，让我们能够专注于以前无法完成的事情。我们的志愿者喜欢它，他们更加活跃，我们在任何时候都有最友好的朋友。我们现在随时知道志愿者在做什么，我们能够得到任何健康问题或我们需要采取的行动的即时通知。团队对我们的反馈反应迅速，并且已经提供了我们所要求的很多东西。”

Volunteero is a platform to make volunteering as easy as clicking a button. As anyone who has tried to volunteer can tell you, it is a minefield laced with red tape. 90% of people claim to want to volunteer, only 20% do. Why is that?Volunteering isn't easy, here are some of the most commonly stated reasons for not doing so:* Cannot find the right organisation* The sign up and training process is slow and inefficient* Volunteering opportunities are often inflexible* People are fearful of making long term commitmentsIf these are true for anyone reading well, we are changing all that. Volunteero is an app that allows you to:* Find the organisation whose social cause is one you are passionate about* Sign up and complete required training all within the app itself* Find individual tasks that can be completed in isolation, tasks that best fit your ability and schedule* Complete tasks and record your experienceWhether you complete 1 task or 1000, you are able to make a real difference!We believe that no one who wants to volunteer should have a valid excuse not to. We have ambitions to improve the global rate of volunteering but also to make sure each volunteer can access the opportunities to which they care most and are best suited.Volunteero is being built by 3 friends all in different countries across Europe, all volunteers themselves and all with a genuine desire to make the world a better place.-- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION HERE --The Extension for Impact funding will help us further develop the platform and make it accessible to more organisations and therefore get more help to those in need as a result.Working with our initial partner Age UK Gateshead and conversations with over 100 other charities has provided us with an improved insight into the requirements of charities. System fragmentation is a key concern for charities, firstly because of increased strain on budgets but also because of the added strain caused to staff due to double handling, training etc. As such the charities require our platform to be able to satisfy ALL tasks volunteers can conduct for them before it is feasible for them to adopt Volunteero.The focus of our extension for impact funding will be to support essentially all possible tasks that volunteers conduct at any charity. We will build a flexible framework whereby charities can create task types and add any functions that are required to support that for example, phone calls, approval workflow, location services, file upload etc. This will mean Volunteero can sell to essentially any of the 168,000 volunteer organisations and will allow us to work with charities that are interested but have asked for this new functionality.To demonstrate the success of what we have built so far in supporting telephone befriending, below I include highlights from our case study with Age UK Gateshead.- 280% increase in volunteer productivity- One week per month saved per staff member- Number of active volunteers increased by 70%Julie Latimer, Head of Business Development at Age UK Gateshead, had this to say about the platform."Volunteero has saved us so much time and allowed us to focus on things we have previously been unable to work on. Our volunteers love it, they are far more active, we have most befriending at all times. We now know what volunteers are doing at all time and we are able to get instant notification of any health concerns or actions for us to take. The team react quickly to our feedback and have already delivered so much of what we have asked for"