How do I work with volunteers on this platform?
You can start by searching for all the volunteers who have registered on the platform to see if there are any you'd like to approach.
You can also add a volunteering opportunity to promote the role you are looking to fill. Interested volunteers will get in touch with you on the platform or via an external application form (if you use one).
Once you have volunteers working with you, we recommend that you:
- Connect with all your volunteers.
- Message all your volunteers to arrange when and where they will be volunteering.
- (If enabled) Set up a team space to assign tasks, share documents and chat with your volunteers.
Make sure you 'log hours' too so that the user's social impact page will be updated!
Log hours:
- Navigate to the manage activities section.
- Find the volunteer activity you wish to manage, then use the 'actions' drop-down to open the 'manage volunteers' page.
- Scroll down to the 'accepted' volunteers tab.
- Add the number of hours completed.
- Write a thank you message and mark that they did this.
Complete a volunteer pledge:
If a volunteer has finished working with your organisation and you want to move them from the 'accepted' stage to 'completed', you need to close off their request.
- Navigate to the manage activities section.
- Find the volunteer activity you wish to manage, then use the 'actions' drop-down to open the 'manage volunteers' page.
- Complete a volunteering pledge by opening the arrow drop down in the corner and choosing 'close this request (without assigning any hours).