We’re quickly closing in on the end of the year and approaching 2024, so what better time than now to take you all on a walk down memory lane with our TeamKinetic 2023 Roundup?

January – March

At the start of the year, we created some new user guides to support everyone on TeamKinetic. This included a new volunteer guide and a new provider guide.

We also published a new episode of TeamTalk with Richard Evans and Danielle Hogan from England Netball. Chris, Imo, Richard and Danielle had a great discussion about how organisations can improve their accessibility and inclusion for everyone, including volunteers. Listen below.

April – June

AI was dominating the conversation early on in the year, so we started to discuss how tools like ChatGPT can help volunteer managers.

We had our first minor release of the year with version 2.3.0. This brought new search filtering options, the volunteer action log, printable opportunity PDFs, and more.

We closed out season 2 of our TeamTalk podcast with a thought-provoking episode with Piers Martin. Piers is Head of Leadership and Academy Workforce Development at the Premier League and the Chair at UK Deaf Sport. Chris, Imo, and Piers discussed a variety of aspects of the current state of volunteering and beyond, including accessibility and the importance of having representation at the board level. Listen below.


In May, we were treated to a home Eurovision. Taking place in Liverpool, we were honoured to be a part of the event as we provided our tools for the Eurovision team to manage their volunteers.

In June, we celebrated Volunteers’ Week. Every year we acknowledge the contribution volunteers make to society. But of course, we should remember to thank volunteers every day, not just one week a year!

We also released another TK update. In our 2.3.1 Minor Release, we made reporting on volunteers easier, more search filters, and more.

July – September

We kicked off Season Three of our TeamTalk podcast with a visit from Rob Jackson. They spoke about Rob’s career in the sector and how volunteer management and engagement are changing due to the influence of external factors such as the cost of living crisis and new advancements in technology.


In late July through to the end of August, Alex (that’s me!) jetted off to Australia to watch the Women’s World Cup. It was an incredible event led by thousands of volunteers – over 5000 to be precise. They even got a shoutout before kickoff at every game!

England made it to the final, but it wasn’t to be as Spain emerged as the champions of the world. Even so, it was an amazing experience.

In September, we hosted the 2023 TeamKinetic Conference. This year, we brought together voices from across the sector to discuss the changing world and its potential impact on volunteering. Once again, thank you to everyone who attended, spoke, and contributed to discussions. It was a fantastic event and we hope to see you all again next year.

October – December

In October we attended the Why Sports conference in London. The conference highlighted some great work being done to improve health and increase activity amongst the general public.
Chris also hosted a panel debate titled: We Can’t Keep Doing the Same Things and Expect a Different Result! How volunteers hold the key to a sustainable revolution in how we deliver for our communities.
This panel brought together Bryony Hudson, Lee Malkin, and Leila Bendrimia to discuss what volunteering means to their organisations. Read more on this here.

Next, we put our longstanding plans of developing a Digital Toolkit for volunteer managers into practice with an online roundtable discussion with volunteer managers from across the sector. The discussion was hosted by Gethyn Williams, facilitated by AVM, and brought up some great points to think about as we start to put together the toolkit. We hope to have more information for you on this in early 2024.

So what’s next?

We have a few exciting developments in the works, you’ll all be pleased to hear that we expect the new and improved TeamKinetic app to be ready for early January. We’ll be in touch with more information when we properly come back to the office in 2024. We also have some exciting new integrations with Tempo and First Advantage that we will bring you as soon as possible.

In the meantime, we hope you have an amazing break over the holidays and a very happy new year!

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