Tag: Royal Voluntary Service

Call for charities to join pioneering new platform to supercharge volunteer recruitment

Stuart Mitchell

Royal Voluntary Service is issuing a call for charities of all sizes to supercharge their volunteer recruitment by signing up to join its new platform.  Following the March announcement of the production of a digital volunteering platform to streamline volunteer recruitment, thanks to support from players of People’s Postcode Lottery, Royal Voluntary Service is inviting charities to register to join the platform.  The platform has been shaped by Royal Voluntary Service, incorporating ongoing feedback from numerous charities, both large and small, following workshops and user testing including, Highlands health and…

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10 UK charities unite to launch online event, The Massive Get Together, in a bid to raise over £500,000

Stuart Mitchell

For the first time, 10 of the nation’s cherished charities are uniting to respond against the impact that COVID-19 is having on the charity sector by staging The Massive Get Together – an online charity event comprising of celebrity entertainment, performance, prize draws and lots of laughs, in a bid to raise £500,000. This special collaborative, relaxed, and fun variety event, the brainchild of one of the UK’s leading charities Volunteering Matters, will be hosted live from London by TV and radio presenters Gaby Roslin and Amanda Byram. “This year…

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We Are Undefeatable: a major new campaign to support people with long-term health conditions to be active

Stuart Mitchell

An inspiring new campaign – We Are Undefeatable – is being launched to support the one in four (15 million) people in England who live with one or more long-term health conditions, such as diabetes, cancer, arthritis and Parkinson’s. By recognising the unique barriers people with health conditions face, the campaign aims to help people build physical activity into their lives, by hearing from others who have become more active through the ups and downs of living with their condition. Individuals living with a long-term health condition are twice as likely to…

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