Volunteering platform Do-it relaunches

12 Dec 2014 News

Online volunteering platform Do-it has been relaunched today by its new owner, the Do-it Trust, with more emphasis on on sharing volunteering opportunities via social media.

Online volunteering platform Do-it has been relaunched today by its new owner, the Do-it Trust, with more emphasis on sharing volunteering opportunities via social media.

Do-it was started by YouthNet in 2001 and was sold to a partnership involving volunteering bodies ivo.org, Believe.In, Blue Dot, Prospectus and Vivo.

The partnership is further supported by others including Tinder Foundation and its network of UK Online centres. The platform has 250,000 vistors each month and helps more than 50,000 organisations find volunteers.

This year ivo.org rebranded as the Do-it Trust following the acquisition of the platform.

Jamie Ward-Smith, chief executive of the Do-it Trust, said: “It’s a very exciting time to be re-launching Do-it, primarily because of the potential offered by social media. We used to be very British about doing good and kept it to ourselves but one of the joys of social media is that attitude is getting chipped away and people are sharing their good deeds and inspiring others to follow suit.

“We believe the new Do-it can harness and amplify that social sharing, increasing the number of people volunteering for organisations and inspiring more people to organise their own ways to do good with others.”

Ahead of the relaunch the charity commissioned some research which found that 21 per cent of respondents said they would share information about recent volunteering activities on social media.