Participation reports by year group and Pupil Premium, ready before the governors ask
Run student volunteering, clubs and groups in one place, and get defensible participation evidence out of it without building another spreadsheet.
For schools, colleges, sixth forms and youth programmes.
Book a conversation
Twenty minutes with the founder, shaped around your term dates. We will look at how you record volunteering now before suggesting anything.
- Start from the spreadsheet you already keep
- Free through the 2026/27 academic year
- Read our Children's Code posture before you decide
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Organisations on the platform
938
Live volunteering roles
678
Published stories
Live counts, read from the platform when this page loaded.
Data protection questions first? Read the Children's Code posture, the data processing terms, or the Gatsby evidence guide.
The Challenge
Student volunteering is often unstructured and hard to prove
Scattered across tools
Volunteering lives in spreadsheets, email chains, and WhatsApp groups with no central record.
Staff time wasted chasing
Teachers and coordinators spend hours chasing attendance, hours, and evidence manually.
Opportunities miss the right students
Without targeting, the right students never see the right roles.
Reporting is manual
For awards, references, and partnerships, proving impact takes too long.
Vinspired turns volunteering into an organised programme with clear participation and measurable impact.
How It Works
Organise, publish, coordinate,
and report
A simple end to end flow for managing student volunteering across your school or college.
Create groups
Clubs, year cohorts, and programmes with controlled visibility and access.
Manage memberships
Only approved students can access private content and opportunities.
Publish opportunities
To a specific group or to the wider platform, with full control.
Message students
Collectively to coordinate volunteers and reduce drop offs.
Track student participation and build your school impact profile
Automatically over time, giving staff, governors, and partners a clear picture of your school's contribution.
Feature Spotlight
Groups let you target the right students
Create groups for any purpose and control who sees what. Opportunities published to a group stay private and are not visible on the wider platform.
Public group or private group
Invite only or open join membership
Role based access for staff admins
Memberships
Membership is the access layer
School membership
Students become members of your school space
Approval flow
Optional approval for joining groups
Track per student
Roles and activity logged individually
Unlocks access
Private opportunities and internal comms
Visibility Control
Publish opportunities with the right visibility
Private opportunities
Only visible to selected groups. Run internal programmes, mentoring cohorts, and school events without public exposure.
Visible only to group members
Public opportunities
Visible on Vinspired for wider discovery. Connect students to community opportunities and external volunteering.
Discoverable across the platform
Run internal programmes while still connecting students to community opportunities.
Comms
Coordinate at scale without chaos
All students selected for an opportunity, in one message.
Updates and reminders to group members.
No more chasing across email, text, and WhatsApp.
Fewer drop offs and less admin time.
School Impact Profile
An impact profile for the school, not just individuals
Total student hours
Volunteering hours across all programmes
Participation over time
Trends by term, year group, or cohort
Skills developed
Across cohorts and programmes
Impact areas
Aligned to school values and community
Highlights by group and programme
Featured stories and achievements from your school community
Use cases
Why Students Care
Students are building something they can show
Every hour volunteered builds a personal record that students can use for applications, references, and personal development.
Personal impact record
Grows with every experience logged
Provable skills
Captured through real volunteering work
Certificates
For portfolios and applications
Badges
Recognition that motivates consistency
Getting Started
Set up in a few steps
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Create your school profile
Set up your school or college in minutes
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Add staff admins
Invite colleagues to manage programmes
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Create groups and invite students
Clubs, cohorts, and programmes
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Publish opportunities
Private to groups or public on the platform
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Message and track
Coordinate students and log participation
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Share your impact profile
With governors, Ofsted, and partners
Or create a school account yourself
We'll send a verification link to get you started
FAQ
Common questions
What does it cost?
Every student keeps their record for free, with no student cap. Schools running a whole programme join an annual partnership, sized by pupils on roll and invoiced once a year against a purchase order. Nothing is priced per pupil. The ladder is on the pricing page for schools and colleges.
Can we keep opportunities private to a group?
Yes. You can publish opportunities to a specific group so only those members can see and apply. This is useful for internal programmes, mentoring cohorts, and club activities.
Can students join groups without approval?
It depends on how you set it up. Groups can be open join or require approval from a staff admin before students are added.
Can we message selected students in bulk?
Yes. You can send messages to all students selected for an opportunity, or to all members of a group, from one place.
Can we track volunteering by year group and club?
Yes. Groups map directly to year groups, clubs, or programmes. You can view participation, hours, and outcomes at the group level and at the school level.
Can we issue certificates for student volunteering?
Yes. Certificates recognise volunteering milestones and are verified digital credentials. Badges are also available for specific skills and achievements. School branded certificate templates are set up by us today, and move into your own hands with the Partnership level.
What does the public school profile actually show?
Total student hours, volunteers accepted, active opportunities, approved awards, impact areas, skills, groups, events and stories. Trend charts by term and cohort breakdowns are not built yet, so for those you export the participation CSV.
Where does our student data sit, and who can see it?
Your school is the data controller and we are the processor. Student profiles default to private, sensitive classifications such as Pupil Premium are encrypted at rest, and students never see their own classification tags. The full terms are in the Trust Centre.
Looking for something else
Start from the spreadsheet you already keep.
Twenty minutes, your term dates, and an honest view of what this would take to run.
Free through the 2026/27 academic year No charge per student