Reach Skilled Volunteering
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Reach is the skilled volunteering charity.
The majority of Reach’s funding (68%) comes from charitable trusts and corporate donations.
They use these skills for the benefit of voluntary organisations. They also enjoy personal benefits from volunteering such as broadening their CV, sector experience, re entering the work place after a career break, keeping their CV current during periods of unemployment as well as the satisfaction of making a difference to a voluntary organisation.
and Oxfam
through to small local and community organisations. Reach helps organisations across all sectors of the industry from the arts, children, environment, health, refugees and animals and well as many ‘second tier’ organisations.
Reach is a volunteer involving organisation itself and the majority of its service is personally delivered by skilled Reach volunteers.
TrusteeWorks aims to help trustees and Boards through the trustee journey, helping to recruit trustees with the right skills and experience and provide support and resources. Its website TrusteeWorks provides separate resource sections for those volunteering
and the charitable organisations they are assisting, aiming to meet all their information and support needs in one place.
About the Charity
Reach aims to boost the resources of the voluntary sector by providing volunteers with the right skills and experience. It was set up in 1979 to provide the voluntary sector with skilled volunteers who have a professional, business or managerial background. Reach places over 1000 skilled volunteers each year into a variety of organisations across the UK, with around 5,000 organisations using a Reach volunteer at any one time. It is estimated that over 45,000 end users benefit from Reach volunteers each year.The majority of Reach’s funding (68%) comes from charitable trusts and corporate donations.
Reach’s volunteers
Reach’s volunteers come with a wide range of skills in areas such as finance, IT, training, social media and marketing, HR, strategic planning, the law and project management. They have at least three years work experience, with the majority having much more. Reach volunteers are varied, they can be in full or part time work, on a career break, or retired.They use these skills for the benefit of voluntary organisations. They also enjoy personal benefits from volunteering such as broadening their CV, sector experience, re entering the work place after a career break, keeping their CV current during periods of unemployment as well as the satisfaction of making a difference to a voluntary organisation.
Reach’s organisations
Reach supports a wide range of voluntary organisations from the very biggest such as The Prince's TrustThe Prince's Trust
The Prince's Trust is a charity in the United Kingdom founded in 1976 by Charles, Prince of Wales to help young people. They run a range of training programmes, provide mentoring support and offer financial grants to build the confidence and motivation of disadvantaged young people...
and Oxfam
Oxfam
Oxfam is an international confederation of 15 organizations working in 98 countries worldwide to find lasting solutions to poverty and related injustice around the world. In all Oxfam’s actions, the ultimate goal is to enable people to exercise their rights and manage their own lives...
through to small local and community organisations. Reach helps organisations across all sectors of the industry from the arts, children, environment, health, refugees and animals and well as many ‘second tier’ organisations.
The Reach service
Reach offers voluntary organisations a personal service to help define the role that they wish to fill and promote it to volunteers. When the role has been defined Reach searches its register of skilled volunteers and identifies those with the right skills and experience. Reach then contacts the volunteers on behalf of the organisation. If the volunteer is agreeable, their details are then passed to the voluntary organisation and a meeting is arranged between the two parties.Reach is a volunteer involving organisation itself and the majority of its service is personally delivered by skilled Reach volunteers.
TrusteeWorks
Reach has recently launched the new TrusteeWorks service in conjunction with the third sector recruitment specialists ProspectUs.TrusteeWorks aims to help trustees and Boards through the trustee journey, helping to recruit trustees with the right skills and experience and provide support and resources. Its website TrusteeWorks provides separate resource sections for those volunteering
Volunteering
Volunteering is generally considered an altruistic activity, intended to promote good or improve human quality of life, but people also volunteer for their own skill development, to meet others, to make contacts for possible employment, to have fun, and a variety of other reasons that could be...
and the charitable organisations they are assisting, aiming to meet all their information and support needs in one place.