Basildon Borough Council, GB adopts GetVolunteering app for COVID-19 befriending service

Basildon Borough Council, GB GetVolunteering App COVID-19

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Borough officials worked with Novoville to customize the company's app for the Our Community Befriending Service. Socially isolated residents are automatically connected to volunteers based on requester location, needs, and interests. GetVolunteering logs befriending team activities including social calls, grocery deliveries, and food bank service. The app allows volunteers to alert the borough to residents with worsening health conditions for service referrals.

Health & Human Services Mobile App Volunteerism Outbreak / COVID

Basildon Borough Council, GB

Non-metropolitan district in England

United Kingdom

Products

GetVolunteering

GetVolunteering enables you to triage volunteers into clinical and non-clinical roles to support the fight against COVID-19.

Vendors

Novoville

We are a tech startup with a unique mission to transform the public services we all use and improve tomorrow`s government policies, making them citizen-centric.

Links

COVID-19 - Befriending support for borough residents who are feeling isolated or lonely - Basildon

Newsworthy

In the news: New app will transform volunteering in Basildon - Basildon

A transformational new mobile app which will help connect Basildon Council community support officers and other support services operating in the borough with those needing additional support to ensure their wellbeing is being launched by Basildon Council.

Project Succeeded

The Our Community Befriending Service handled 18,000 calls through the app during its first year in operation.

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