Volunteer Anywhere

Bite Sized Microvolunteering

for

SchoolsEmployee Volunteering

Community Organisations Civic Engagement Schemes

Are people too busy to volunteer?

we spend 700 billion minutes on Facebook, every month!

we send over 90 million Tweets every day!

we watch 2 billion videos on YouTube, not in a year or month, but every single day!

What if you could capture some of that time on Facebook, YouTube etc and

reduce volunteering down to bite sized chunks of time that are:

easy

involve little or no commitment

take less than 30 minutes to complete

convenient to suit your lifestyle

Welcome to the world of microvolunteering

• on the go

• on demand

• on your own terms

'Volunteer Anywhere' will provide an environment that:

engages the participant in a socially interactive Facebook-esque format

provides a fun, friendly competitive element to volunteering

has real time quantifiable impact reporting facilities

contains over 800 plus pre-loaded microvolunteering actions

Microvolunteering opens up a whole new world within:

• an employee volunteering scheme• a responsible citizenship course / lesson• a meaningful activity programme• civic engagement projects

Microvolunteering can bring in an income stream via quantifiable

social impact reporting!

Key Benefits to Businesses employees and uniquely customers, can participate at the same time allowing greater transparency, accountability and reputation

employees can volunteer on an ad hoc basis, thus earning potential CSR 'brownie points' during unproductive slack periods

employees can volunteer on an individual, team or branch basis without leaving the office

Key Benefits to Schools

free microvolunteering Teachers Resource Pack available, enabling pupils to volunteer in actual lesson time

fun, friendly competitive environment between individuals, classes or even schools

contributes to a pupils moral development, gives them a sense of self worth as well as encouraging a sense of responsible citizenship

Key Benefits to Civic Engagement Projects

microvolunteering can be included as part of a meaningful activity programme

• potential to engage citizens to create and collateinformation for local authority monitoring / datacollection schemes

engages communities that stimulate group spirit and cohesion

The following slides show a few extracts from a wireframe template of the proposed

'Volunteer Anywhere' website.

The full template is available on request, using the contact details at the end of this

slideshow.

Facebook-esque feed of actions

Leaderboard + action activity

Recommended actions

Comment box + media upload

Action details + impact info

Colleague action details

Impact Reporting

• Time quantified

• Actions completed

• Causes supported

• Community feedback

• Motivation analysis

• Pics + vids evidence

• Indvidual/team stats

• Exportable reports

We're looking to develop this idea in collaboration with interested parties.

We're looking to obtain grants / funding / sponsorship to turn this idea into a social

enterprise business.

Contact Mike Bright to find out morechallenge@helpfromhome.orgMobile: +44 (0) 7815 159748