Exciting New Features for 2025: Driving Societal Good in Technology

As we step into 2025, we’re thrilled to share updates and enhancements designed to make volunteering more accessible and impactful.

Key Features Coming in 2025

• Logged-Out Search: Visitors will soon be able to browse and explore opportunities without creating an account, driving greater visibility and traffic.
• Reoccurring events - For events happening weekly or monthly making it easier to upload!
• Volunteer Search Enhancements: Improved filters, distance parameters, and smarter recommendations for better volunteer discovery.
• Open API for Integrations: We’re enhancing integrations (e.g., with Assemble) as we have had a few requests to turn off automated emails to both the user and admin and how the opportunity looks (e.g. PDF´s included / Quotes / Text Editor) and expanding our open API for organisations to access opportunities and our organisation wallet beta. Interested? Let us know!
• Find Volunteers & Charities by Location: A new tool enabling organisations to find and connect with volunteers based on skills, location, availability, and profiles alongside any open projects either offered or wanted.

Skilled Volunteering Matching

We’re excited to share that we are already in beta mode with our partner and 800 corporate partners, making significant strides in connecting the market. We’ve successfully rolled out team events, and in Q2, we will be launching skills-based volunteering projects to further enhance opportunities for collaboration between charities and businesses. And we would like this to benefit the sector so if anyone else is interested in powering the technology on their platform, please enquire about access.

From our survey, we found that 72% of charities already offer corporate volunteering or are open to doing so upon request. The most in-demand opportunities include:

✅ 76% – Skilled volunteers for admin, fundraising, marketing, and ongoing projects
✅ 62% – Team volunteering for events and community projects
✅ 53% – Task-based roles, such as befriending or shop assistance

By providing a platform that unites charities and businesses, we’re ensuring charities can publish opportunities in one place with verified ID and effective matching, making it easier than ever for skilled volunteers and corporate teams to connect with meaningful projects.

Corporate and Charity updates

• Logging of Volunteer Hours improvements & QR codes: Corporate users can easily log and track charity work on the go and we are making enhancements so each corporate can tailor their own logging of hours and improvements to the reporting section
• Charity Partnership Updates: Enhanced team booking flows administration and resources for partner-hosted events & reporting
• Corporate Mobile app: Enabling employees to securely log in and access a native application tailored to their roles and needs
• New apps: With our digital rails model enabling any charity or organisation to build an app with AI first technology and embed on their own customer journeys, some exciting new ones to come in Q2 and Q4, watch this space! 

Introducing the Life Pass Concept

Over the years, we've received thousands of inquiries from our users about work experience opportunities, job centre referrals, care roles, housing & finance help, student internships, and mental health support. Inspired by these needs, we've developed a platform to help address them: Lifepass.We're excited to introduce the new Lifepass referral platform to our charity users. Designed with safety, inclusivity and personalised AI driven wellbeing outcomes at its core, this tool streamlines referrals and can be customised to integrate seamlessly into your systems. And as a key partner you can drive your members to it or get your content included as a source of trusted knowledge.

If you'd like to explore how Life Pass can support you and your members, we're happy to provide a demo, password access, or further insights into its capabilities—just let us know!

Stay tuned for a full roadmap in the coming months, and thank you for being part of this journey. Here's to an incredible 2025!