HelpMyStreet has partnered with Yoti, a leading provider of ID checking.
Every volunteer is ID-checked to confirm they are who they say they are. This is important because vulnerable people use HelpMyStreet to ask for help.
Yoti is quick and easy to use – you just need a smartphone and a valid driving licence or passport.
Click to watch our introductory video
HelpMyStreet has an integrated task management module that matches requests for help with suitable helpers (matching by request type and proximity).
Volunteers will be alerted when relevant requests for help come in, and helpers can accept as many or as few requests as they’d like. There’s no ongoing commitment – helpers are simply encouraged to help out when they have the time.
Finally, we collect feedback from everyone involved to ensure it was a positive experience.
Click to watch our introductory video
We helped Age UK in Lincoln and South Lincolnshire launch their Vitals For Veterans campaign; a program to deliver 1,800 care packages to elderly veterans.
Every week the Age UK team find veterans who would benefit from a bit of a boost (including one gentleman who is 103 and received a parcel on his wife’s 97th birthday - quite a couple!).
They enter them into the system and then amazing volunteers sign in to HelpMyStreet, grab tasks that are close to them, pick up the parcels from a few central locations and then drop them off with the veterans.
Often they have a bit of a chat with the veteran – which is probably as important as the care package itself.
Using HelpMyStreet enables us to recruit volunteers and support older people in communities that are sometimes harder to reach. It’s a valuable tool in a rural county.
Nicki Lee, Senior Volunteer Coordinator at Age UK LSL
Working with the team from Factor 50 on the HelpMyStreet initiative has been a fantastic experience. We have developed a wonderful partnership which has genuinely helped us to reach so many more older people and willing volunteers alike for our Vitals for Veterans project. They are so flexible and engaged with us that we are now also looking at other ways that we can work with them on different services and projects we have.
Michele Jolly, CEO at Age UK LSL
For The Love Of Scrubs is an incredible collaboration of 70,000 sewers across the country (with one central facebook page and 130+ local ones) who have made 500,000+ sets of scrubs and other pieces of vital equipment for frontline NHS and care workers.
Now, they have partnered with HelpMyStreet to spearhead our Face Coverings campaign.
Big 'Thank you from the Barkantine Practice', was lovely to receive these masks today and give them to the staff. So good to see a range of colours and sizes and materials and also catering for the boys, we are truly grateful. Thanks for all the work you are doing, absolute community spirit at its best.
Sasha is a GP in Tower Hamlets who requested face coverings to help staff commute on public transport
All of the staff here at the Nottinghamshire YMCA would like to say a huge thank you for the homemade face coverings provided by volunteers from HelpMyStreet. They're well-made and all different which makes them much more interesting than normal disposable masks! We're a charity and requested 100 face coverings as a donation to help our staff and residents stay safe during this pandemic.
Gillian from Nottingham asked for help
Ruddington is a village in South Nottinghamshire, where the community wanted a platform to match volunteers with people who needed help and where they are well backed by their Parish Council.
HelpMyStreet built a dedicated landing page for them, with images of their local shops and pictures of their organisers and volunteers to make it all feel personal and relevant.
The community can access the full suite of HelpMyStreet functions; including ID checking and task management.
I am proud and pleased to help with the Covid-19 group in my village. There was an obvious need for our services and we came together as a community in a brilliant way. Lots of people volunteered to assist without hesitation which just shows what a caring bunch we are.
Pam from Ruddington provided help
When I heard that Ruddington was in need of volunteers to assist with the Covid response I was really keen to get involved. I have children at both local schools and it was great to be able to deliver schoolwork out to their classmates who were stuck at home. Although they knew what it meant when they saw me walking towards the door, most of the kids were excited to be getting a delivery from school and to see what fresh challenges had been set by their teachers.
Harvey from Ruddington provided help
If you organise a community please get in touch using the form to see whether HelpMyStreet can make your life easier and help you reach more people in need.
Please sign up or log in to help people in your community
If you think our organisations can work together to help each other, please get in touch using the form
Please contact media@helpmystreet.org.
Please contact partners@helpmystreet.org.
We’re always looking for people with great product, tech, marketing and communications skills to help us make HelpMyStreet.org better. Please complete the form to get in touch.
