Tag Archives: BrightWorks
Bright Works: Why Microvolunteer?
We’ve seen a jump in new users to Bright Works, Bright One’s microvolunteering platform. With the increased interest, we asked one of the new volunteers about her thoughts on microvolunteering. Hannah is a postgraduate student of social work, and was looking to develop her skills while studying. She claimed a Bright Works task from THOMAS, [...]
New Microvolunteering Tasks Available on Bright Works
It has been a busy two weeks since the last update blog post on Bright Works, with new projects from both new and returning charities. Bright Works is Bright One’s microvolunteering platform that connects causes with skilled volunteers in a simple, effective and easy way. Volunteers work on projects that are broken down in [...]
Volunteering – A Step Towards Employment
This guest post was written by Neelam Shah, a Kingston University student studying Journalism with Media and Cultural Studies. Neelam shares her top tips on volunteering and where to find those opportunities that will give students and young people a chance to help out in the community and meet new people whilst gaining experience [...]
What Makes a Good Microvolunteering Task for Bright Works?
Our microvolunteering platform Bright Works has recently had some great new projects uploaded that we are very excited about and they keep on coming in so there are plenty of tasks to get involved with if you’re interested in volunteering! With new charities and other organisations contacting us about adding tasks to Bright Works we’re getting an [...]
New Year, New Updates to Bright Works!
Happy New Year to you all ;) To kick things off in 2012, we’ve got some new updates to Bright Works, our microvolunteering platform that lets causes connect with skilled volunteers in a simple, effective and easy way. Here’s the run down: Slippy Tank We’ve upgraded the platform so that we can now have [...]
Bright Works Awarded in European Volunteering Competition
We’re delighted that Bright Works, our microvolunteering app, received the award for third place in the Discover E-Volunteering competition, the only competition in Europe which aims to promote the most interesting projects in which volunteers help others via the Internet. Over 80 applications from organisations from 19 European countries were received and were great [...]
Bright Works Update: New Projects, New Features and Competition Finals
Bit of a update on Bright Works for you: New features coming soon – sign up now to keep updated >> Looking to add your project to Bright Works? – get in touch >> Plenty of projects live up at the moment – help them now >> We’re heading to the final of the [...]
Vote for Bright Works in the Discover E-Volunteering Competition
Bright Works, our microvolunteering app, has been shortlisted as one of the best 12 volunteering projects on the Web as part of the Discover Ev-volunteering competition. You can read descriptions of the finalists here and choose the projects that you think are the most valuable and deserve the financial prize to further their development. Here’s a step-by-step on [...]
Bright One Announces the Launch of BrightWorks – a microvolunteering app for charities
We’re delighted to announce the launch of BrightWorks, a microvolunteering app from Bright One. Bright One has achieved great success in the past two years, all through the passion and determination of its volunteers (as we have no paid staff). But teams of volunteers can only achieve so much, and demand overwhelmingly outstrips supply when [...]
Take a look at Bright Works, our micro volunteering app for charity tasks >>
Bright One Annual Report 2011