The entire premise and success of Do-it lies with its strength in partnerships.

Without charities large and small there would be no opportunities to provide. Without Volunteer Centres across the UK the opportunities would not get to the Do-it user, and without organisations such a Volunteering England, Do-it would not be able to offer opportunities from Tyneside to Totnes.

Ongoing funding partnerships are also intrinsic to the progression of Do-it.

Without vital funding from the Office of the Third Sector and Oracle, YouthNet would not have been able to develop the unique V-Base software that has helped create the national volunteering database. It would not have been able to provide Volunteer Centres across the UK with essential hardware to enable them to upload the volunteering opportunities into the database to reach the users of Do-it.

Cabinet Office

YouthNet is a strategic partner of the Office for Civil Society, based at the Cabinet Office, and recieves funding for Do-it.

In addition, the Office for Civil Society is supporting a partnership project between YouthNet and Volunteering England working on volunteering legacy from the 2012 Olympic and Paralymic Games.  Further details below.

Oracle Corporation

Oracle Corporation is one of our Founder Funders. Organisations of all sizes, in all industries and geographies, meet and exceed their business goals with the help of Oracle technological products, services solutions, and partners.

Volunteering England

Volunteering England works to support and increase the quality, quantity, impact and accessibility of volunteering throughout England.

As well as supporting our partnerships with the Volunteer Centre network, YouthNet and Volunteering England are working together on a project supporting volunteering legacy from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. For further details, see the Volunteering England website.

BAA

In 2005, BAA Communities Trust committed a total of £75,000 over three years to support Do-it, to support the work YouthNet lead in giving people access to volunteering opportunities.

We worked in partnership to maximise the success of BAA's employee volunteering programme, i-volunteer, which aims to make it as easy as possible for BAA employees to give their time to community projects in their area. As well as developing ideas on how best to promote i-volunteer across all BAA offices and airports, YouthNet's volunteering experts ensured that the team at BAA were always up-to-speed with developments in the volunteering world as and when they happened.

In May 2008, The BAA Communities Trust committed £55,000 to support the London part of theDo-it tour 2008/9. The Do-it tour will train volunteer involving organisations (Volunteer Centres, local and national charities) on how to successfully upload their volunteering opportunities onto the database, using the newest generation of Do-itsoftware.

Some 240 volunteer-involving organisations from London and the South East will be trained by YouthNet on how to use the new software.

The BAA Communities Trust says:

"The donation is a reflection of our company's commitment to giving something back to our local communities. The service YouthNet provides is key to the way that we inspire our staff - located at airports around the UK - to volunteer. We encourage our employees to access Do-it through the BAA intranet and by doing so they make a tangible difference to the communities where they live and work.

"Through our partnership we also aim to help many organisations local to our airports build on their capacity to attract the extra support they need by inspiring more people to volunteer their time and skills." Caroline Nicholls, Director BAA Communities Trust

Caroline Nicholls, Director, BAA Communities Trust

The BAA Communities Trust

The BAA Communities Trust was established in 1996 and has donated more than £4 million in grants in its first ten years. The Trust focuses its giving in three main areas:

Supporting local community activity around BAA's airports - with a key focus on projects that support education and youth development, skills development and initiatives to help the local environment.

Initiatives proposed by BAA staff, such as fundraising and volunteering activities.

Schemes that create opportunities for young people from the UK to develop their potential through overseas community and volunteering projects, in partnership with the charities VSO Global Xchange and Fulcrum Challenge.

Volunteering Hub

The Volunteering Hub has helped fund the development of some content on Do-it, including the blogging section.

The Volunteering Hub is working to achieve the ChangeUp high level objective that by 2014 there will be a leaner, effectively marketed and high quality volunteering infrastructure reaching, recruiting and placing a greater number and diversity of individuals coupled with improved volunteer management.

Big Lottery Fund

The Big Lottery Fund (BIG) is responsible for giving out half the money for good causes raised by the National Lottery. They are committed to bringing real improvements to communities and the lives of people most in need. BIG is supporting YouthNet by contributing towards the delivery of a five-year strategic project that will support a step-change in volunteering and ensure the sustainability of the infrastructure.

Google

YouthNet is a recipient of a Google Grant award.

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