The Power of Do-it

www.do-it.org.uk

What is Do-it?

Run by online charity YouthNet, Do-it is the UK’s leading volunteeringwebsite.

Do-it hosts more than 1.3 million opportunities to volunteer from 550Volunteer Centres, grassroots organisations and major charities, such as TheNational Trust and Marie Curie Cancer Care.

Using a quick postcode search, alongside articles and case studies to inspirevolunteers, Do-it helps engage people with communities by ensuring voluntarywork is quick and easy to find.

Whether you’re searching for volunteering on your company’s intranet, orat a local Volunteer Centre, Do-it will be the website helping you find yourperfect role.

Opportunities are searchable by postcode, area of interest or type of activity. Do-it enables people across the UK to find the right volunteering opportunity for them at the click of a mouse.

Search results are listed according to proximity, and top-line descriptions are displayed. To see further details, you can click on “More information and contact details”

Partnering with Do-it

The Do-it search function can be syndicated to your own website, meaning thatemployees can search for volunteering opportunities without leaving their intranetsite. The function will appear in your look and feel, ensuring a seamless journey fromsearch to application. You can see some examples of this function on the next page.

By promoting more than 1.3 millionopportunities to volunteer from your ownintranet or internet site, you cantransforming your employee volunteeringand/or community program This will helpyou hit your volunteering targets and proveyour commitment to volunteering withinyour organisation.

The Do-it feed will appear on your website in your own look and feel, so employees and customers experience a seamless journey from search to application.

Examples of Do-it feeds provided to Directgov and The Southern Co-operative

Benefits of using Do-it in your organisation

Visibly demonstrate your corporate support for volunteering and feature informationabout your employee volunteering and community programs alongside the Do-it searchfunctionality.

Remove the main barriers to volunteering, such as not knowing where to find anopportunity, not having enough time to apply, and not finding anything local.

Help charities local to your business, which have the opportunity to use the skills,expertise and knowledge of your employees.

Gather valuable data for you to report on the level of volunteering activity.

Reporting

As part of partnership, we will provide you with monthly reports on search activity on your syndicated Do-it feed. You can use these to monitor the success of your employee volunteering programme and include in the CSR section of your annual reports. Your Do-it reports 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.

Number of UK employees Annual fee*

Up to 1,000 £2,500

1,001 – 10,000 £5,000

10,001 – 25,000 £7,500

25,000 – 50,000 £10,000

50,000 + £15,000

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

*A 10% discount is available for all organisations in Volunteering England’s “Membership Plus” scheme.

Case study: Do-it and Centrica Briana Whitlock, Corporate Responsibility Officer at Centrica tells us how using thepower of Do-it has helped Centrica employees get involved in volunteering….

We believe that by supporting our employees in carrying out volunteering activities,whether during business hours or in their own time, they gain positive feelings aboutthe company and feel more engaged. Volunteering also helps to develop employees’skills that they can then apply at work. This is all in addition, of course, to the benefitsto the communities our employees are reaching out to.”

“Our approach is to enable our employees to supportthe causes they care about through their volunteeringactivities. That’s why we’ve developed the GetInvolved programme – to help employees who want toparticipate in volunteering. Get Involved providestoolkits, a calendar of upcoming opportunities andother resources such as the Do-it syndication feed.

Case study: Do-it and Centrica cont…. “The Do-it syndication feed provides our employees with an easily accessible tool to be able to find activities in their local area that fit with their availability and interests. We have an average of 258 searches each month for opportunities, with 5412 searches in total since we took on the feed in November 2008.

The feed has been a great tool for our employees. The statistics we receive each month inform us of the interest in volunteering throughout the year, which enables us to provide more timely campaigns and relevant opportunities.”

Partnering with Do-it 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.

Interested?

We would be more than happy to come and show you the power of Do-it, or provide further information and answer any questions you may have.

For more information or to set up a meeting, please contact Catherine Skakle at YouthNet:

[email protected]

020 7250 5767