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The record is free on Vinspired for everyone. Some programme features are paid for by the organisations that use them, so that the platform never again depends on one funder. Here is why, in plain words.

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Everything Vinspired does

Built so that no good intention gets lost.

Someone offers an evening a week. A student stays behind to set out chairs. A small charity finds one more pair of hands for Saturday morning. Offers like these are fragile. They get lost in an application nobody answers, an hour nobody records, a thank you nobody sends, a report nobody can pull together when the funder asks. Each capability below exists to close one of those gaps.

We work this way because volunteering runs on goodwill, and goodwill is the one thing the sector cannot afford to waste. When helping is easy to offer, honestly recorded and properly recognised, people help again, and the organisations they help can show what that help built. Read why we built Vinspired

26 capabilities. Which level each belongs to, and what state it is in.

A capability is live, shipping, or on the roadmap with no date. Nothing here is described with an adjective we cannot evidence.

This page is generated from the same files the product and the pricing pages read, so it cannot claim something the code does not do. See the plans and prices

The whole picture

One loop, two sides, verification in the middle

Vinspired is a loop between two sides. Organisations recruit volunteers, run the work, record what happened, recognise the people who showed up, report the impact, and communicate all the way through, administering everything in one place.

Every approved hour becomes part of a volunteer's verified record: a profile, certificates and badges they keep. That record is why volunteers come and why they stay, and volunteers who stay are why organisations end up with programmes worth reporting.

Verification sits in the middle of the loop. It is free on every level, and price never buys a way round it.

Recruit

3 capabilities

Say what you need doing, and let the right people find it. Listings reach volunteers browsing Vinspired and the search engines behind it, applications arrive in one place, and you can ask the questions you actually need answered before someone turns up.

  • Volunteering Opportunities

    Live

    Post and manage volunteering opportunities

    Free on every level

  • Volunteer Management

    Live

    Track and manage volunteer applications

    Free on every level

  • Custom Questions

    Live

    Ask volunteers extra questions when they claim a role or apply to an opportunity

    Programme, Partnership, Managed pilot

Run

7 capabilities

The week itself. Sessions with a register, events with attendance, sign-up sheets people claim themselves. The point of this area is that nobody rebuilds a spreadsheet on a Sunday night to find out who is coming.

  • Clubs & Sessions

    Live

    Create recurring enrichment clubs with session tracking and attendance

    Partnership, Managed pilot

  • Events

    Live

    Create fixtures, trips, and events with attendance tracking

    Free on every level

  • Public Events

    Live

    Share events with a public link, list them on your profile, and take RSVPs

    Programme

  • Public Sign-Ups

    Live

    Share a sign-up sheet by link or list it on your profile, and let volunteers claim slots themselves

    Programme

  • Guest Sign-Ups

    Live

    Let people claim a place without a Vinspired account (name and email)

    Paid levels

  • Sign-Up Controls

    Live

    Access codes, quantity limits, group restrictions, date locks and custom confirmation copy on sign-up sheets

    Programme

  • Tasks

    Live

    Reusable named pieces of work with default hours, recorded against members through the Experience Log

    Paid levels

Record

3 capabilities

What happened, written down once and kept. Staff can log an afternoon across thirty students in one submit, upload a roster of people who have no account, and separate enrichment from volunteering so neither number quietly absorbs the other.

  • Enrichment Tracking

    Live

    Classify activities as enrichment or mixed and track enrichment participation

    Paid levels

  • Roster Uploads

    Live

    Bulk upload accountless member rosters for admin tracking, attendance, and reporting without creating user accounts

    Partnership

  • Experience Log

    Live

    Staff-recorded bulk volunteering across many students in a single submit, for the after-the-fact use case

    Partnership

Recognise

3 capabilities

Hours become something a young person keeps. Badges mark a skill or an impact area, certificates mark a threshold of verified hours, and both belong to the volunteer rather than to the organisation that issued them.

  • Badges

    Live

    Create and award digital badges to volunteers

    Free on every level

  • Certificates

    Live

    Create and award certificates to volunteers

    Free on every level

  • Custom Branding

    On the roadmap

    Customise your organisation branding

    Programme, Partnership, Enterprise

Report

3 capabilities

The evidence you are asked for, ready before you are asked. Participation and hours by group and by period, equity analysis across the tags you chose, and exports that go into a bid or a governors' pack without being retyped.

  • Analytics

    Live

    Access to analytics dashboard

    Free on every level

  • Context Tags

    Live

    Classify and segment your members with contextual tags

    Partnership

  • Equity Dashboard

    Live

    Demographic equity analysis across context tag groups

    Paid levels

Communicate

3 capabilities

Reaching your people and telling the story afterwards. Messages, channels, posts on your public profile, and templates for the images that go with them. What you can reach depends on how far you have got through verification, never on what you have paid.

  • Posts

    Live

    Publish posts and updates

    Free on every level

  • Channels

    Live

    Create and manage communication channels

    Free on every level

  • Storytelling Studio

    Live

    Upload your own images, use the full template set, and save reusable templates in the Storytelling Studio

    Programme

Administer

4 capabilities

The plumbing. Members, groups, your public profile, and the settings that decide how the rest of it behaves. This area exists so that the other six take less of your week.

  • Organisation Profile

    Live

    Public profile page for your organisation

    Free on every level

  • Groups

    Live

    Create and manage volunteer groups

    Free on every level

  • Memberships

    Live

    Manage organisation memberships

    Free on every level

  • Category Sets

    Live

    Choose which category sets members use to tag volunteering and experiences

    Paid levels

Trust and verification

5 checks

Young people use Vinspired, so we check who an organisation is before it can reach one. Every row here is free on every level, and price never buys a way round any of it.

  • Approval by a person

    Live

    Every organisation is read and approved by a person, with a named safeguarding contact, before it can contact anyone

    Free on every level

  • Register number at application

    Live

    School URN, Charity Commission number or Companies House number, captured and format checked when you apply

    Free on every level

  • Register checks

    On the roadmap

    The number checked against GIAS, the Charity Commission and Companies House rather than read

    Free on every level

  • Verified mark on profiles

    On the roadmap

    The completed register check shown on your public organisation profile

    Free on every level

  • Hour approval

    Live

    Every hour credited to a volunteer record is approved by the organisation, or confirmed by an external referee over email

    Free on every level

The other side

What volunteers carry away

Volunteers never pay to use Vinspired, and nothing on this side of the loop is on a level. The record is the product.

  • A profile that is theirs

    Hours, activities and awards in one place, with a public page they can send to anyone.

    See more

  • Hours somebody stood behind

    Approved by the organisation, or confirmed by an external referee over email. Never self-declared and called verified.

    See more

  • Badges and certificates they keep

    Badges for a skill or an impact area, certificates for a threshold of hours. Both survive leaving the organisation.

    See more

  • A record that outlasts the school

    A young person who moves school, or finishes one, keeps everything they earned here.

    See more

What this page does not say

It does not promise a date for anything on the roadmap, because we would rather say nothing than say a month we have not committed to. It does not claim a framework alignment of any kind. It does not describe a capability we are still building as though it were live.

If something you need is missing, tell us and we will say honestly whether it is coming. Ask us

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