# Share your mobile volunteering ideas with Orange - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2010/08/10/share-your-mobile-volunteering-ideas-orange/ - Published: 2010-08-10T11:21:51+01:00 - Author: Howard Lake ![](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/files/images/news/orange_mobilevolunteering_201008. jpg) ![](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/files/images/news/orange_mobilevolunteering_201008_0. jpg) Mobile operator Orange UK is inviting charities and developers to share practical ideas for using mobile technology “to transform volunteering in the UK”. It is seeking ideas that will “make minutes matter by introducing convenient, snack-size volunteering, so consumers can volunteer anywhere, anytime.” It is currently “crowd-sourcing” new ideas via an online community. Ideas can be submitted, rated, and discussed by charities, developers, entrepreneurs or anyone with an interest in mobile volunteering. The top 10 micro-volunteering actions that can be completed on the mobile will then be developed and funded by Orange UK, which has 17.3 million customers. ## Advertisement Later in the year Orange will open the online community to the wider public, to take part in suggesting new mobile volunteering actions and submit existing or new apps for good that they think are good. It will then choose 10 ideas for the Orange app and 10 new apps as well. Orange say that they are not looking for any fundraising-related actions in the Orange app that they are producing. However, apps with a fundraising element can still be submitted to the topic ‘Apps doing good on the go’. Stuart Jackson, Brand Communications Director for Orange at Everything Everywhere( which runs Orange UK and T-Mobile UK), said: “We’re taking responsibility as a company for maximising the true potential of the mobile phone – to see how it can be used to empower consumers to do acts-of-good whilst on the move”. www.mobilevolunteering.co.uk * **[Apps for Good in competition for funding](https://fundraising.co.uk/2010/11/04/apps-good-competition-funding/)**( 4 November 2010) * **[Sony develops +U mobile volunteering app](https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/01/05/sony-develops-u-mobile-volunteering-app/)**( 5 January 2012) * **[Fundraising app for Maggie's designed to boost team motivation](https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/03/07/fundraising-app-maggie039s-designed-boost-team-motivation/)**( 7 March 2012) ## Comments ### By: admin - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2010/08/10/share-your-mobile-volunteering-ideas-orange/#comment-2110 - Published: 2010-08-10T11:29:02+01:00 I’ve already submitted my idea to Orange: [http://www.mobilevolunteering.co.uk/topics/volunteer/mobile\_ideas/28](http://www.mobilevolunteering.co.uk/topics/volunteer/mobile_ideas/28) In fact, it’s taken from a practice that was common over 10 years ago. Indeed, I covered it 10 years ago this month on UK Fundraising in [Donate CPU time as well as money?](https://fundraising.co.uk/node/155524#comment-2110). Remember SETI@home and other tools that let you donate your PC’s spare processing capacity? I thought, why not adapt that to mobile phones for when they aren’t in use? So, do comment on and vote for my idea if you think it is any good, explore the other ideas, and share your own.