GoVo one year on: Thousands of charities and opportunities to explore
One year since its launch, GoVo, the digital volunteering platform from Royal Voluntary Service, is celebrating a milestone of over 10,000 volunteering opportunities available for people across the UK to discover.
Launched in October 2025 thanks to £5million in funding raised by Postcode Lottery players, GoVo was created to make volunteering simpler and more accessible, helping people find opportunities that suit their interests and availability.
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The platform has attracted over one million website visits in its first year, and 2,000 charities and community groups have joined GoVo to share a range of diverse volunteering opportunities spanning 14 different cause areas.
From volunteering in sport, helping animals, protecting the environment or inspiring young people and more, GoVo can help people to click and connect to causes they care about.
Volunteers have signed up with charities of all shapes and sizes, including St John Ambulance, From Me to You, The Salvation Army, Schoolreaders, Suffolk Prickles and Wheels for All.
For Wheels for All, a charity dedicated to making cycling accessible to people of all ages and abilities, GoVo has helped attract new volunteers, meaning the charity can extend their support to more people.
"GoVo has been an excellent platform for promoting our volunteer opportunities to a wide and diverse audience. It has helped us attract volunteers who are representative of the communities we support and has broadened our reach beyond our existing networks. GoVo helped us recruit volunteers for our brand-new inclusive cycling hub on Dovercourt seafront, helping us extend our impact across Essex."
Rhys Phillips, National Volunteer and Impact Manager at Wheels for All
"One year on, GoVo is helping people and businesses connect with the causes they care about in their local communities. Thanks to the £5 million in Postcode Lottery player funding, 2,000 charities and community groups have joined the platform, unlocking thousands of opportunities across the UK. It is great to see GoVo making volunteering more accessible for people who want to get involved with good causes in their community, and we're so pleased funding from our players is making this possible."
Laura Chow, Head of Charities at Postcode Lottery
GoVo has also inspired people to volunteer through a series of national campaigns.
Its launch was marked by the Role of a Lifetime campaign, developed with ITV, which showcased the breadth of rewarding experiences volunteering can offer.
"After hearing about GoVo on the radio ads I was just being nosey to see what was on GoVo locally, when I came across Suffolk Prickles. Seeing as I live in the middle of nowhere, I wasn’t expecting to see any volunteering options, but I found Suffolk Prickles which is right up my street as I love animals, nature and wildlife, so I signed up. Using GoVo and discovering Suffolk Prickles showed me how flexible volunteering could be."
Eleanor Goldberg Mitchell connected with hedgehog rescue charity, Suffolk Prickles, after hearing the Role of a Lifetime campaign adverts
The platform was also the official volunteering partner for this year's Big Help Out and has supported the National Year of Reading, helping people find opportunities to share their love of books and reading with others.
"Volunteers are not only mission-critical to much of the work of charities, but their support helps to build stronger, kinder and more connected communities – outcomes that society can’t afford to miss out on. Royal Voluntary Service's ambition is Volunteering for All. Whether people are simply inspired by GoVo or find their role through GoVo, we will have realised our vision if more people from all walks of life end up benefitting their community and themselves by volunteering."
Catherine Johnstone CBE, Chief Executive of Royal Voluntary Service
GoVo is also helping businesses give back to their communities through GoVo for Business, which connects organisations with meaningful volunteering opportunities for employees and teams.
With thousands of opportunities available across the UK, GoVo is encouraging more people to discover how volunteering can benefit both the causes they care about, and themselves.
To explore volunteering opportunities and find a role that fits into any lifestyle, visit GoVo.org.
