Powerful employee volunteer programs  

Set up your employee volunteer program

Implement an EVP that maximises your employee volunteering impact with social and sustainability causes. Streamlined company volunteer programs with in-depth tracking and reporting.

Simple
Set-up

Get your employee volunteer program up and running with easy implementation

Volunteering sourced
for you

1000’s of employee volunteering opportunities already sourced and ready for your team

Boost employee engagement

Boost employee volunteerism with gamified hero points & leaderboards

Real-time tracking & reporting

In-depth data reporting on your EVP. See which teams are giving back the most.

Benefits of an employee volunteer program

Employee volunteering is one of the most effective workplace benefits to boost employee wellbeing and build a deeper sense of purpose and belonging with your organisation.

Attract and retain your best talent by showing your company’s commitment to doing good.

Types of employee volunteering

Set up your EVP with OnHand to give your team access to 1000’s of volunteering opportunities available on the OnHand app. Available in the UK and worldwide covering:

  • Local Community Support

  • Homelessness & Poverty Actions

  • Youth & Refugee Support

  • Skilled based volunteering 

  • Sustainability Action

  • Upload existing charities

Engaging employees with your EVP

If you have a corporate volunteering policy but uptake is low, we can help with employee volunteering opportunities are sourced for you!

Take a look at the benchmarks and best practice to engage your employees in volunteering including introducing micro-volunteering to your policies.

Helping charities of all sizes

OnHand was set up by 8 leading charities in the UK to get more people into volunteering.

The OnHand app is designed with people first, to showcase employee volunteering that’s easily accessible, wherever your people may be.

Get involved today and book a call to discuss the full platform features.

Key Product features

  • Employee volunteering opportunities and sustainability actions that relate to the causes that matter the most to your team.

  • Boost engagement and raise your employee volunteering rates with a gamified experience, including hero points, leaderboards, and tree-planting rewards. 

  • Real-time data reporting to see exactly what your teams get up to. Configure to see different departments or regions to see how team perform against each other with in-depth insights into volunteering hours, charities help and much more!

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FAQs

  • Yes! The OnHand app and platform is available in most countries worldwide, allowing all your employees to get involved wherever they may be!

  • To volunteer with vulnerable, elderly or young people in person, a DBS check is required. This is part of your subscription and is completed on the OnHand app.

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  • Mirco-volunteering is a form of volunteering which is generally only 30 minutes to 1 hour at one time.

    This is shown to boost employee engagement with employee volunteer programs and your volunteering policy. Read more about micro-volunteering here.

  • Yes! The OnHand volunteering platform is designed to use location matching so works well for any remote or hybrid teams.

  • As soon as you’ve signed, our team will be in touch to set up your organisation's dashboard and the steps to onboard. We will walk you through the steps to promote to your team and set up your dashboard.

  • We have a range of free team missions to pick from on the OnHand platform. We can also help organise other volunteering charity team days with an add-on fee to your package.

  • Yes! We recommend setting up volunteering teams so you can easily see your corporate volunteering and sustainability champions. This also can be used to encourage employee engagement through competitions.

  • The enhanced DBS check is only needed for those who participate in in-person volunteering missions. These are needed when helping elderly, vulnerable, or young people.

  • Yes, this is covered in your annual subscription.

  • Yes! We have lots of ways to get involved in volunteering both in person and remotely. We encourage your employees to add grassroot charities and other opportunities to the platform so we can get more people doing good.

  • Absolutely! If your workplace has already partnered with a charity we can add this to the platform and ring-fence it for your employees to see. They are also encouraged to add any volunteering that they are already doing to the app.

  • Your team will get rewarded with trees being planted based on the activities they complete. For every member who signs-up we will plant a tree and then also plant additional trees for every 10 actions they take.

What I love about this is it covers so many aspects…it isn’t just the environmental piece, there’s the social responsibility piece, there’s the community piece.

It enables an organisation to say we care about the way we are, the way our communities live.

Deborah Meaden, Dragons' Den

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