You are the heroes.
We just build your tools.
Every volunteer who gives an afternoon. Every coordinator who keeps a food bank open. Every teacher who notices the student nobody else noticed. You make the change. Our job is to keep the software out of your way, and to make sure what you did is never lost.
Vinspired is a volunteering platform run by two people in London and the software we build. It began life inside a national charity in 2006. It is a small company now, on purpose.
Closed in 2018. Still here in 2026. Here is how, and why there is now a price.
The charity that built this platform helped 1.4 million young people volunteer, then ran out of money. People who could not let it go kept the platform alive. We rebuilt it from scratch in 2023 and kept it free while we did. Read the whole story, the reason we now ask some organisations to pay, and the promises that will not change.
Read our journeyWhat we believe
Volunteering is life capital.
Proof, not promises
An hour given to a community should count the way a qualification counts: recorded, confirmed by someone accountable, and yours for life. If it cannot be verified, we do not call it verified.
Free for the person, always
Volunteers and young people never pay. The record belongs to the person who earned it.
Built to outlive us
The first Vinspired closed and the record of what young people had done nearly went with it. We build records you can export any day and, in time, check without needing our servers at all.
The people
Two people, ten years with this platform, and a family behind them.
Eser Poyraz
Founder and engineer
Eser joined vInspired as a lead engineer in 2016 and has kept vinspired.com running through every owner since: the charity, the former staff who rescued it, Speakers for Schools, and now his own company. A volunteer himself for years, he believes the people who run non-profits are the real change makers. He still writes most of the code, and he pays for the company by doing other engineering work.
Demet Parlak
Head of Schools
Demet holds a PhD and taught at universities before she joined Vinspired in 2025, as a volunteer, to lead our work with schools. She runs our conversations with schools, the demos and much of the support inbox. If you write to us, there is a good chance Demet is the one who answers.
And our family, who have given more evenings and weekends to this than they signed up for.
The money, plainly
Free for people.
Paid for by the institutions it serves.
Since 2023 Vinspired has earned nothing and paid no salaries. That was fine while we rebuilt, and it is not a plan. The first Vinspired depended on one funder and closed when that funder changed its mind. We will not build the second one the same way. So some organisations will start to pay: a flat annual amount when they run their own programme on Vinspired, while the record level stays free for everyone. No price per volunteer, per pupil or per hour. Nobody loses what they already have.
Two lives, one mission
Twenty years of young people showing up.
The first life, 2006 to 2018
1.4 million
Young people
Helped to volunteer
8,000+
Charities
Supported
Civil Society, June 2019.
The second life, today
491
Organisations
938
Live roles
678
Stories published
Live figures.
The road ahead
Where we're headed.
- Find and apply for roles
- Log hours, get them approved, or verified by a referee
- Certificates and badges
- Groups, events and sign up sheets
- Impact reports and CSV exports
- A mobile app
- The schools partnership: rosters, registers and a termly evidence export
- A Programme level for organisations that run events and sign up sheets
- Records that can be checked without our servers
- A young person's record that stays useful beyond one school or programme
- Schools and trusts using Vinspired across the whole year
- A small company that pays its people and stays independent
- "Verified on Vinspired" meaning something to an admissions tutor or an employer
Where to go next
Vinspired, for you.
Vinspired for Volunteers
Find opportunities, track your hours, earn verified certificates, and build a portfolio of impact.
ExploreVinspired for Non-profits
Manage volunteers, post opportunities, and measure your social impact with tools built for the sector.
Learn moreVinspired for Schools
Empower students with volunteering that counts. Track participation and issue verified certificates.
Learn moreVinspired for Companies
Run employee volunteering days and keep an honest record of the hours.
Learn more
Ready to make
your mark?
Whether you're looking to volunteer, manage volunteers, or partner with us, there's a place for you at Vinspired.