CHARITIES of all sizes in Dumfriesshire are being encouraged to sign up to a new volunteering platform, to help recruit more volunteers to support their invaluable work.
The Royal Voluntary Service has created a digital volunteering platform, thanks to support from players of Peoples Postcode Lottery, to help charities across the region to connect with would-be volunteers in their communities.
The platform will launch to the public in the autumn when potential volunteers will be able to browse, search, filter, click and connect with causes and charities they care about. Charities across the region are able to sign up to the platform now completely free of charge and will be invited to upload roles to test the platform from June onwards, ahead of the full launch.
Catherine Johnstone CBE, chief executive of Royal Voluntary Service, said: “We have shaped this exciting new platform in partnership with charities big and small across the region, to make sure its valuable for all causes of all sizes. Together we can make volunteering more accessible and empower more people to give their time to support the host of invaluable charities and causes they care about, across Scotland. The platform addresses what we know to be barriers for would-be volunteers and makes fitting volunteering in to modern life easier than ever.”
