Do you need the power of Do-it?

By partnering with Do-it you can promote more than one million opportunities to volunteer from your own intranet or internet site transforming your employee volunteering programme and helping you hit your volunteering targets.

How it works

Built in partnership with the Volunteer Centre network, Do-it is the UK's leading volunteering website. There are over a million opportunities to volunteer, from major charities such as the National Trust and Oxfam to local voluntary and public sector organisations. Do-it connects people, communities and organisations to inspire positive change.

You can incorporate Do-it's search facility into your intra- or internet site, meaning your colleagues or website visitors can search for volunteering opportunities without leaving your site.

"We take a syndicated feed of Do-it volunteering opportunities and display them on Microsoft's intranet site," says Karina Gibson, Consultant Citizenship Manager at Microsoft. "It provides a great service and puts Microsoft employees in contact with thousands of volunteering opportunities in their local area."

To see an example of how volunteering opportunities from Do-it can feature on another site, visit the DirectGov site.

You can find out more by downloading our leaflet (PDF), read more about how one company uses the Do-it database on their website, or read our employee volunteering comic strip, created by Spike, who volunteered to draw it for us.

Why Do-it?

Incorporating the Do-it syndication feed into your site has several benefits:

• It is a visible demonstration of your corporate support for volunteering and enables you to feature information about your employee volunteering programme alongside the do-it.org.uk search functionality;
• It removes the main barriers to volunteering – not knowing where to find an opportunity, not having enough time to apply, and not finding anything local;
• It provides valuable data for you to report on the level of volunteering activity;
• Charities local to your business have the opportunity to benefit from the skills, expertise and knowledge of your employees.

Importantly, it also ensures that employees can access volunteering opportunities quickly and easily from your company intranet or internet site without visiting the Do-it= website.

Reporting

We are also able to provide reports on volunteering activity on your syndication feed, which can include the following information:  

• Total number of searches;
• Searches by area of interest and type of activity;
• Opportunities viewed by area of interest and type of activity;
• Number of registered volunteers;
• Number of volunteers by age range, disability, ethnicity and gender;
• Number of volunteer applications.

Fees for syndication of Do-it opportunities

Annual fees for a feed of Do-it opportunities are based on the number of employees and are as follows:

This is a superb opportunity for your company to make a direct and demonstrable investment in employee volunteering. Not only are you investing in a powerful tool that can help to transform your employee volunteering programme, you will also be supporting Do-it and the UK's volunteering electronic infrastructure.

To discuss how do-it.org.uk can support your employee volunteering programme, please call the Corporate Development Team on 020 7250 5700 or email info@youthnet.org.