Using digital to recruit and manage your volunteers on a budget

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Whether you manage thousands of volunteers or just a few, using digital to recruit and coordinate them will vastly improve the efficiency of your charity.

Formed immediately prior to the first national lockdown, HEART’s strategy is based entirely on recruiting and matching volunteers to where they are most needed. The organisation uses technology to recruit, manage, and coordinate them all. To do this they created a comprehensive digital management system that automatically logs requests for help, enabling them to match tasks with volunteers nearby. On a small budget, they now manage to coordinate thousands of volunteers throughout their community.

In this session, Alastair Fairley and Liz Johnson from HEART will share their volunteering strategy. Learn the quick and simple ways you can use digital tools to streamline your volunteering system. The session will be covering:

• Digitally recruiting volunteers: how and where
• How to use digital tools to manage your volunteers on a budget
• Creating an online management database
• Matching volunteers with service users with technology
• How you can make digital as user-friendly as possible for your volunteers
• What lessons they learnt along the way