Tag Archives: Microvolunteering
Bright One Annual Report 2011
Bright One’s latest Annual Report was presented last night at our AGM, which took place in the fantastic offices of Edelman UK. We would like to use this opportunity to send over a big thank you to the Edelman team and the catering staff who treated us with a great space and some delicious nibbles [...]
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 [...]
Happy New Year – Bring on 2012!
It is January, it is 2012, and we would like to wish all our volunteers, charities, supporters and friends a Happy New Year. Bright One has had a great year in 2011 but we are very excited about 2012 as it’s looking to be even better! Some of our highlights from last year would be [...]
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 One and Bright Works – First Impressions
This is a guest post from one of our new Bright Workers, Jessica. Want to join her? Head over to Bright Works now! If it wasn’t for Twitter I wouldn’t have discovered Bright One. In my follow-happy early days as a novice tweeter, I scoured Twitter for any organisation that consolidated my two main [...]
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 [...]
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