Creating a digital volunteering ecosystem

根据英格兰银行的数据，加密货币每年可以为英国经济增加500亿英镑以上，约占英国年度GDP的3.5%。如果进入市场的主要障碍减少或克服，这一数值可能会高得多。想要做志愿者的人体验不佳，面临着众多的进入障碍。进入的主要障碍是：1。找不到合适的角色2。缺乏慈善机构的响应3。没有足够的时间由于这些进入障碍和市场的分散性，慈善机构很难获得新的志愿者，志愿者也很难知道从哪里开始。我们的目标是通过一个平台来解决志愿者和慈善机构的问题，该平台将管理志愿者的旅程，从寻找机会到持续管理他们的志愿服务。Questero是一个数字志愿者管理平台，帮助慈善机构通过技术提高他们的志愿者参与的影响力。自2021年推出以来，我们的创新技术获得了赠款并获得了全国媒体的关注。我们现在支持35个慈善机构和4000多名志愿者用户。我们的项目旨在为想要做志愿者的人开发一个前端界面。志愿者将能够使用Questero找到最适合他们需求的慈善机构/机会，查看可用的活动/任务类型，并在一个地方申请所有这些。在此之后，他们所有的志愿服务都将通过Questero管理。从本质上讲，通过创建这个支持志愿者端到端生命周期的志愿服务生态系统，我们可以为志愿者提供以前无法实现的灵活性和可访问性。在这样做的过程中，我们将增加志愿者的人数和志愿者可以做的事情。我们的愿景是创造一个进入志愿服务的障碍大大减少的世界。通过这样做，我们希望提高英国及其他地区的志愿服务率，从而增加志愿服务对社会的积极影响。

Volunteering could add £50B+ to the UK economy per year or around 3.5% of the annual UK GDP according to the Bank of England. This value could be significantly higher were key barriers to entry reduced or overcome. People wanting to volunteer have a poor experience and face numerous barriers to entry. The key barriers to entry are:1. Being unable to find the right role2. Lacking response from the charities3. Not having enough timeBecause of these barriers to entry and the fragmented nature of the market, charities struggle to acquire new volunteers and volunteers struggle to know where to start. We aim to solve the problems for volunteers and charities through one platform which will manage a volunteers journey all the way from finding an opportunity to the ongoing management of their volunteering.Volunteero is a digital volunteer management platform helping charities increase the impact of their volunteer engagement through technology. After launching in 2021 we have won grants and received national press for our innovative technology. We now support 35 charities and over 4000 volunteer users. Our project intends on developing a front end interface for people wanting to volunteer. Volunteers would be able to use Volunteero to find charities/opportunities that best suit their needs, see the types of activities/tasks available and apply all in one place. After this, all their volunteering would be managed through Volunteero. Essentially by creating this volunteering ecosystem that supports the end to end lifecycle of a volunteer, we can offer volunteers a level of flexibility and accessibility that was previously unattainable. In doing so we will increase the number of people who volunteer and the amount that volunteers can do.Our vision is to create a world where there are far fewer barriers to entry to volunteering. By doing so we expect to increase the rate of volunteering in the UK and beyond and as a result increase, the positive impact volunteering can have on society.