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

Volunteero - 改善社会孤立和孤独者的生活

• 批准号: 65088
• 金额: $ 8.03万
• 依托单位: VOLUNTEERO LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Feasibility Studies
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=65088
• 关键词: Volunteero; Improving; lives; those; who

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"

Questero是一个让志愿服务像点击按钮一样简单的平台。任何一个试图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。为什么会这样？创业并不容易，以下是一些最常见的不这么做的原因：* 找不到合适的组织 * 注册和培训过程缓慢而低效 * 创业机会往往不灵活 * 人们害怕做出长期承诺如果这些对任何阅读良好的人来说都是真的，我们正在改变这一切。Questero是一款应用程序，允许您：* 查找您热衷的社会事业的组织 * 注册并完成应用程序本身所需的培训 * 查找可以单独完成的单个任务，最适合您的能力和时间表的任务 * 完成任务并记录您的经验无论您完成1项任务还是1000项任务，您都能够产生真实的影响！我们认为，任何想要志愿服务的人都不应该有正当的理由不这样做。我们的目标是提高全球志愿服务的比例，同时确保每个志愿者都能获得他们最关心和最适合的机会。Quebero由欧洲不同国家的3位朋友建立，他们都是志愿者，都有让世界变得更美好的真诚愿望。更多信息请点击此处--Impact资金的扩展将帮助我们进一步开发平台，并使更多的组织可以使用它，从而为那些需要帮助的人提供更多的帮助。与我们的初始合作伙伴Age UK Gateshead合作，并与100多个其他慈善机构进行了对话，使我们能够更好地了解慈善机构的需求。系统分散是慈善机构的一个主要关切，首先是因为预算压力增加，但也因为双重处理给工作人员造成的额外压力，培训等。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Questero。我们的影响力资金扩展的重点将是支持基本上所有可能的志愿者在任何慈善机构进行的任务。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，并添加所需的任何功能，以支持，例如，电话，审批工作流，位置服务，文件上传等，这将意味着Questero可以出售给基本上任何168，000个志愿者组织，并将允许我们与感兴趣但要求使用此新功能的慈善机构合作。成功的我们已经建立到目前为止在支持电话交友，下面我包括从我们的案例研究与年龄英国盖茨黑德的亮点.志愿者工作效率提高280%-每个工作人员每月节省一周时间-活跃志愿者人数增加70% Julie Latimer，英国Gateshead的业务发展主管，对该平台有这样的评价。“Questero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工作。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多的朋友。我们现在知道志愿者在任何时候都在做什么，我们能够立即得到任何健康问题或我们要采取的行动的通知。团队对我们的反馈反应迅速，已经提供了我们要求的很多东西。