Who we work with: volunteers
People who volunteer their skills through Reach have a wide variety of different skills, experience, ages, genders and backgrounds.
The interactive charts below have been compiled based on the volunteers we worked with in 2024. (Updated charts based on 2025 data coming soon.)
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Hear from some of the volunteers we work with
Creating a digital team from scratch
Product designer Yara DaSilva was already doing a mentoring role she found on Reach but she wanted a more practical and hands-on way to contribute her skills. Now she's leading a team of talented...
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"I have found it so rewarding"
Digital expert Rob responded to a call from Move Mates for a volunteer to help them scope their database project. Originally a short-term commitment, he connected with the organisation and the cause...
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Discovering your path through skills-based volunteering
Caroline Harris tells how she used volunteering to help in her career transition from banking to sustainability and how recruiting volunteers through Reach is helping volunteer-led organisation...
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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...
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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...
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