# Royal Voluntary Service opens platform to promote all charity volunteering roles - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2025/06/18/royal-voluntary-service-opens-platform-to-promote-all-charity-volunteering-roles/ - Published: 2025-06-18T07:09:00+01:00 - Author: Howard Lake **Royal Voluntary Service’s new volunteering platform is now open for charities to register to upload their volunteering roles**. All charities across Britain, whether large or small, can now use RVS’ platform to promote their volunteering opportunities. Both platform and its associated identity checking service are entirely free for charities to access. The platform, announced in March, has been made possible by funds raised by the players of People’s Postcode Lottery. ## Advertisement [⌊Posthub advert. You create the campaign. We'll handle the postal journey. Get started at post-hub.co.uk.⌉](https://fundraising.co.uk/ads/posthub-20261007-300x250/) It has been improved and refined by numerous charities, following workshops and user testing. Future developments after launch will include free criminal record checking and integrating with existing volunteer management systems. Charities will begin to be invited to upload roles to test the platform from this month onwards, ahead of the public launch in the autumn, when potential volunteers will be able to browse, search, filter, click and connect with causes and charities they care about. [Royal Voluntary Service](http://royalvoluntaryservice.org.uk) hopes that the sector’s involvement will help make the platform “a hub of flexible, accessible digitally- enabled volunteering”, in order to strengthen civil society at a time when formal volunteering is in decline yet demand is increasing. The platform will also be used to match businesses with suitable employee volunteering opportunities, to optimise their corporate volunteering and social impact activities. This could see the 140 million gifted hours of corporate volunteering that currently go unused, being fulfilled to the advantage of charities, causes and communities across Britain. **Catherine Johnstone CBE**, Chief Executive of Royal Voluntary Service said:  > “I know many in the sector will agree that it’s time we did things a little differently > when it comes to volunteering and volunteer recruitment. It needs to be more accessible > and more inclusive. The new platform will help to address what we know to be barriers > to active citizenship and will enable volunteering to fit readilyinto modern lives > so that we can empower more people to give their time and to click and connect > to the causes they care about. Working with others, we want to create something > to support the public, sector and businesses to transact volunteering. We are > passionate about ensuring as many charities, causes and support organisations > are a part of it as possible”. **Clara Govier**, Managing Director at People’s Postcode Lottery, added: > “It’s inspiring for us to think that our players are supporting something that > could create a step-change in volunteering in Great Britain. We work with a range > of amazing charities and are eager to see how they harness the power of the platform > to recruit and mobilise more volunteers in support of their incredible work.” * **[South Pole fundraisers report on progress via the Web](https://fundraising.co.uk/1997/01/26/south-pole-fundraisers-report-progress-web/)**( 26 January 1997) * **[Charities gain free Web sites in competition](https://fundraising.co.uk/1997/04/07/charities-gain-free-web-sites-competition/)**( 7 April 1997) * **[Animal charity volunteer sets up pet-relief e-mail list](https://fundraising.co.uk/1997/04/18/animal-charity-volunteer-sets-petrelief-email-list/)**( 18 April 1997)