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Who we work with: organisations

A wide variety of different organisations use Reach to recruit trustees and skills-based volunteers. Our figures show an sharp increase in the number of smaller organisations over the last five years.

In this section

About Reach
> Recruiting trustees
> Building capacity
> Growing participation
Our vision and values
Our impact
Our equity, diversity and inclusion journey
Our response to the climate crisis
Meet the team
Our trustees

The interactive charts below have been compiled from data collected about the organisations we worked with in 2024. (Updated charts based on 2025 data coming soon.)

See data about our volunteers.

Size and scope of organisiations
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Growth of volunteer run groups
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Roles posted by organisation turnover
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Hear from some of the organisations we work with

A smiling woman with long dark hair support two young children to greet a black horse with a white spot on its nose

Volunteers help get Devon Healing Horsemanship off to a great start

Volunteers, found through Reach, bring the skills and passion Devon Healing Horsemanship needed to get established.

Make more staff engage children in STEM subjects

Making volunteers the backbone of our community CIC

Make More have recruited volunteers from Reach across marketing, research, fundraising and education to grow their CIC, bringing exciting STEM projects to schools and community across the Midlands.

"My advice to other organisations considering using volunteers for the first time is to go for it"

Blue Magpie Foundation - a volunteer-lead organisation that supports young people in Harrow - used Reach to find volunteers that have had a transformative impact on the organisation.

News and comment from Reach

Volunteering is thriving - Just not where you’ve been looking

If volunteering is really in crisis, why are so many volunteer-led organisations flourishing?

Graph showing increase in volunteer numbers on Reach

Motivations for volunteering: Exploring the rise in volunteering at Reach

Here at Reach we’ve seen a sustained rise in volunteering numbers over recent years – in fact it’s grown nearly four fold since the pandemic. At the same time, the number of people taking up...

Graph showing increase in small organisations on Reach

In these turbulent times, what gives you hope?

Like many people, I am apt to doomscroll through the overwhelming flood of horrifying and scary news. But I am fortunate that my day job, leading Reach Volunteering, keeps me in daily contact with a...