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One Opportunity, Unlimited Locations

If you manage a regional program, you’ve felt the pain: creating thirty different opportunities for thirty different community centres or postcodes. It’s repetitive, it’s messy, and it’s hard to track.

We’re changing that. Our new Multiple Locations update allows you to attach unlimited locations to a single opportunity.

  • Live Capacity Tracking for Admins: Map pins are colour-coded based on volunteer spots
  • Green: Full capacity, great news.
  • Orange: Partially full.
  • Red: Empty =(
  • Interactive: See every site on a live map, track occupancy at a glance, and manage slots without breaking a sweat.
  • The Volunteer Experience: Volunteers see a beautiful, searchable map. They can find the site closest to them and join multiple locations with just a few clicks.

Scale your impact without scaling your workload.


You can try the new features for yourself on our Beta site.

Log in using your regular admin details at: https://beta.teamkinetic.co.uk/vk/admin

Please send us any feedback you have or any bugs you encounter via Support Ticket from your own system, thank you!

Meet ‘Flows’ – Onboarding, automated

For a while now, Roles have been the backbone of your onboarding for opportunities. It offers a quick and easy way to record the various steps you need to check off before a volunteer was ready. But you need faster, you need more integration, and you need more automation!

Meet Flows

Flows are a flexible, automated way to gather information and onboard volunteers. Instead of jumping between screens, you can now build a custom path for your volunteers to help move them from interested to engaged in the shortest path possible.

Flows include steps for:

  • Automatic ID Uploads & Checks
  • Integrated Meeting Scheduling
  • Reference Gathering
  • Custom question completion
  • Profile images

Once a Flow is complete, the system does the heavy lifting for you. It can automatically add the volunteer to a group, grant them system access, create a ToDo task for yourself or a colleague, or send HTML emails with attachments the volunteer or your team.

The very best bit? Admins can manage every single step from one interface. No more chasing. No more friction. Just a smooth flow from sign-up to participation.

We’ve calculated that a well-built Flow can save up to 25 manual steps per volunteer. That’s more time for you to focus on the people, and less on the paperwork.


You can try the new features for yourself on our Beta site.

Log in using your regular admin details at: https://beta.teamkinetic.co.uk/vk/admin

Please send us any feedback you have or any bugs you encounter via Support Ticket from your own system, thank you!

Is a volunteer onboarding bottleneck slowing down your impact?

Why your current roles and volunteer onboarding might be hitting a ceiling.

We are all familiar with the onboarding dance.

A volunteer signs up, then you email them for an ID.

Then you wait.

Then you realise you forgot to send the link for the induction meeting.

Then you have to manually move them into the verified column in your spreadsheet or update their status in your CRM once they finally send that photo.

It’s disconnected, manual, frustrating and prone to error and missed opportunities. Just as importantly, it’s one more time barrier to engage with your volunteers; they get bored, they change their minds, and you lose them and their potential!

It’s a lot of chasing, and frankly, a lot of friction.

We’ve been listening to our power users, and it’s clear: the way we manage the journey from “Interested” to “Active” needs to evolve. We’re working on something that turns that zig-zag process into a straight line.

No more disconnected processes, no more time-consuming checks, just straightforward, integrated actions that take your volunteer journeys from step 1 to completion in one place.

Keep an eye on this space. “Roles” as you know them are about to get a lot more… fluid.


If you’re not a TeamKinetic user but you’d like to be kept up to date with TeamKinetic updates, email alex@teamkinetic.co.uk and we’ll get you on our mailing list!

TeamKinetic 2.5.1 Minor Release

The TeamKinetic 2.5.1 Minor Release is complete and some of you will have already spotted the new stuff!

Reporting Page Speed Improvements

The reporting page is grabbing ever more data for more reports over longer periods. We’d already noticed some slowdowns and some customers had opened support tickets to report load time of 10 plus seconds. We needed to fix that!

  • We have rewritten some of the queries that fetch the data to make them snappier
  • Delayed the fetching of some data until you open the relevant section
  • Fetched the all time and date limited stats after the page has loaded so it won’t block you looking at other reports

It looks like this when you first load the page and the stats will drop in shortly.


The page will load in less than 4 seconds now for even our largest data customers.

New Help and Info for the Custom App

For our admins that have got their own branded app in the Play and iOS stores, we have added a few areas to help them manage the new app.

In the Super Admin > Setup > Custom App section you’ll find all the information you need to explore and communicate to your users about your new all. It contains QR codes, links to the app and a large version of your app icon.

If you want to find out how many people are using the app, registering via the app and joining sessions via the app we’ve got you covered with a new section in the reporting page.

The little tooltips will let you know how each stat is calculated and what it means and the figures are limited to the dates you choose on the reporting page.

Mobile App Download Prompts

We’ve now reinstigated the screen overlay prompts for volunteers who access their dashboard on a small screen to download the mobile app.

If you have switched up to the custom branded app, then the links and QR Codes adjust accordingly.

There is also a permanent notification in the footer, reminding users they can use the native mobile app.

Improved Volunteer Password Reset

After working through the process with the Wildlife Trust (thanks Jake) that had lot of volunteers to import and on-board, we spotted a few places where the process wasn’t as clear and simple as it could be, so we’ve made these changes

  • A clear message if the reset token (from an old email) a volunteer is trying to use is expired or bad. This appears before they try to reset their password; it used to appear afterwards and so some volunteers missed it and thought they had reset their password successfully.
  • Suppose a volunteer resets multiple times in a short period and the existing token is still valid. In that case, the token is not reset and a new email is sent with the same token as included in previous emails. This stops that reset loop of doom where a volunteer uses the reset link and an email is sent, but they don’t receive the email quickly enough, or hit the reset link again by accident. This would result in multiple emails with different reset tokens only the latest of which would work.
  • If a reset token is not valid the volunteer has only the option of sending the reset email again, so if they miss the fail message they can’t try to login, which would be frustrating as it wouldn’t work yet
  • Changed the wording of some of the messaging to make it clearer

All the changes together lead to a more intuitive process and we’ve been logging the outcomes for a while and we are getting far fewer issues.

Email Notification of Deleted Volunteer

Volunteers can remove themselves from your database, an important ability to fulfil your GDPR responsibilities. Previously, although the hours were anonymised and retained, the admins would have no idea that a volunteer had removed themselves.

We’ve added an email notification to the main admin which will tell them which volunteer and email address has been removed.

This clears the path to a future update that will allow admins to pick the level of detail they wish to retain when a volunteer is removed. Keep an eye out for that update.

Volunteer Registration Form Improvements

We’ve added some new messaging and prompts to aid volunteers in completing the location section, which has been an issue for some.

Volunteers cannot proceed when entering a UK postcode until they have hit the search button and selected an address from those available.

This will help those volunteers who find they cannot proceed but don’t know why.

Session Number Filter

Added a session number filter to the volunteer search so you can filter your volunteers by the number of sessions they have joined in addition to the existing filters for number of opportunities and hours logged.

Length of Service Added to Volunteer Search

Just a little something that might help, next to the registration date for volunteers is a year and months since registration figure so you can quickly see how long they have been volunteering.

New Volunteer Search Filters

You can now filter by;

  • volunteers that have never logged in (imported but not logged in)
  • volunteers awaiting parental consent (remember you can resend the parental consent email and update the parental email from the volunteer management page)
  • Expiry date of qualifications
  • Date a volunteer last applied for an opportunity

We add filters to this area regularly so it is always worth a quick scan down the filter list occassionally.


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Enhancing Access to Liverpool City Region Volunteering

Here at TeamKinetic, we’re thrilled to announce a new partnership with Volunteer Centres across the Liverpool City Region (LCR) to revolutionise volunteering accessibility. We’re providing organisations across the LCR our volunteer management tools that can work in collaboration with one another. With each organisation using TeamKinetic, we’re able to establish a unified and dynamic platform that boosts Liverpool City Region volunteering efforts.

The Liverpool City Region Volunteering Orbit is a central place to showcase voluntary opportunities across the LCR, managed by the Volunteer Centres across Halton & St Helens, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton and Wirral.

The roots of this project can be traced back to 2016 when TeamKinetic first introduced its digital volunteer management tools to Halton & St Helens Voluntary and Community Action. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the award-winning ‘I Can Help’ community task app was developed. Building on these successes, a comprehensive report was commissioned to explore the integration of TeamKinetic’s platform with other digital volunteer services in the LCR, ultimately enhancing the sector’s response to future challenges.

The project received support from Liverpool CVS, Community Action Wirral, Halton & St Helens VCA, Sefton CVS and Volunteer Centre Sefton, One Knowsley, Voluntary Sector North West, and the VS6 Partnership.

Through TeamKinetic, organisations across the LCR can collaborate, share volunteers, and promote various volunteering opportunities, significantly amplifying the region’s community impact. Currently encompassing six volunteer boroughs and five volunteer centres, the model aims to expand by involving additional voluntary organisations and major events within the region.

Local organisations within the LCR can now sign up for free and utilise a single account to showcase their volunteering opportunities across the entire region.

A Provider profile page on TeamKinetic

On the other hand, volunteers benefit from a seamless experience by easily accessing and joining opportunities, logging their hours, and tracking their volunteering journey across the LCR from a single login.

A volunteer’s dashboard on TeamKinetic

The Liverpool City Region Volunteering Portal secured funding from the Liverpool
City Region Combined Authority after the successful deployment of a TeamKinetic approach to community-based volunteering programmes through the Covid-19 pandemic. Bringing
volunteering opportunities and a one-stop space for volunteers to find them is part of a City
Wide Solution to better partnership working and responding to events; activities and
emergencies across the patch.

Claire Redford-Kerr
Volunteering Lead, Halton & St Helens VCA

At TeamKinetic, our ambition has always been to make volunteering easier. This project is a
testament to that commitment for the people of the Liverpool City Region, made possible by
the fantastic and forward-thinking teams at each of the local infrastructure organisations.

Chris Martin
director, TeamKinetic

The partnership is live now at https://volunteeringlcr.org/ marking a significant milestone in enhancing access to volunteering opportunities throughout the Liverpool City Region.


About TeamKinetic:

TeamKinetic is a leading provider of volunteer management solutions, dedicated to streamlining and enhancing the volunteering experience for organisations and individuals. With innovative technology and a passion for community engagement, TeamKinetic aims to transform the way volunteering is managed and accessed, making it easier for people to contribute to their communities and create a positive impact.

About Volunteering LCR:

The Volunteering LCR partnership consists of Halton & St Helens VCA, Liverpool CVS, One Knowsley and Sefton CVS working with the 8,600 voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise (VCFSE) groups operating across the Liverpool City Region.


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The launch of Kindocoin SBRI project and TeamKinetic’s involvement.

The Kindocoin SBRI project is officially launching Phase 2. TeamKinetic is honoured to be one of two companies spending the next 12 months developing and evaluating our prototype solution in a real-world setting. You can read a description of the product we’ll be working on here, along with more information from Health Innovation South East Scotland. 

The Wellbeing Hub is a volunteer-powered community care web solution. It enables volunteer managers to safely direct support and care to discharged patients. The Hub intends to reduce delayed discharge and readmissions by increasing people’s ability to self-manage or manage with volunteer support. 

The Hub integrates technologies in an innovative way, with safe data sharing that facilitates the partnering of volunteers and volunteer-led services. This allows patients to build a trusted and sustainable network of support.

Phase 1 demonstrated the administrative burden placed on volunteer managers, we know it is difficult for volunteer-led services to be responsive and to provide a scalable service. The Hub reduces that burden by managing complicated and sensitive data sharing, and facilitating patient support via safer volunteer management practices. 

We intend to link patients to third sector providers using our OpenReferral enabled service aggregator. Our data sharing features ensure front-line staff can find suitable services and have confidence that only appropriate information is shared.

Enabling volunteers to develop relationships with patients and providing pathways to community-based activity, will lead to lower planned care needs and should reduce future unplanned hospital visits. Integrating volunteers by ‘passporting’ and developing an ongoing pathway to community-based activity supported by volunteers, will produce a more flexible and sustainable volunteering network.

Patient safety is paramount; volunteers must meet the very highest levels of safeguarding certification. Volunteers who undergo such checks can move more freely between service providers through the use of digitally verified ID, online vetting and barring checks.

Patient outcomes linked to voluntary service intervention have been difficult to quantify. Using advanced data science, we will provide a new dimension of insight into the impact volunteers have on patients and their long-term outcomes. The Hub will provide new clinical insight and develop the case for community-based, volunteer-supported care.

Once again, we’d like to say how proud we are to be involved in a project like this. We’re excited to see what we can do, and how we can help! 


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TeamKinetic is officially the first partner of the Association of Volunteer Managers.

TeamKinetic are excited to announce that they will be the first official corporate partner of the Association of Volunteer Managers (AVM.) Since discovering their work 5 years ago, they have been a passionate advocate for the importance of the AVM. TeamKinetic welcomes this formal partnership. 

Both organisations share the same passion and desire to progress the professionalism of those who involve volunteers. AVM’s goal as an independent membership body is one that supports, represents and champions people in volunteer management in the UK regardless of field, discipline or sector. As an organisation primarily run by volunteers TeamKinetic is proud to be able to directly support their work as a partner as they offer training, campaign on key issues and provide peer to peer support to volunteer managers. 

The partnership is hoping to offer the membership added value and over the next few months will be looking to announce a number of special offers only available to AVM members and supporters. TeamKinetic have spent the last 13 years on the edge of customer-led innovation surrounding digital volunteering and will be continuing to support the campaigns undertaken by AVM. They are looking forward to sharing their experience and knowledge with the AVM members. 

Sales Director, Chris Martin has expressed his gratitude towards Jo Gibney and Ruth Leonard “for all their hard work in helping to make this a reality and I sincerely hope we can continue to support the wonderful work and development of AVM for a long time to come.” 

Chair of AVM, Ruth Leonard says “this is a really exciting next step for the organisation and will enable us to think about how we can offer more to volunteer managers. AVM is proud of our heritage of being run by and for our members and want to be able to remain relevant into the future. TeamKinetic’s enthusiasm and support for AVM has been clear throughout our shared working and I’m looking forward to develop this further.”  

For any organisations or individuals who work with Volunteers, that are not already aware of the AVM and their work, you can visit their site to learn more on becoming a member. 

Get in Touch…

If you’d like to know more about AVM, you can access their website here. 

You can contact the team here at TeamKinetic through our website, or call on 0161 914 5757. 

TeamKinetic 2 Release Notes

The 2021 Q2 major release for TeamKinetic is now approaching our beta test phase where we invite and encourage all our users to have a poke around!

It’s a full jump to Version 2 as we have totally updated the volunteer application with the latest .NET platform (admin and provider to come), have introduced some new features and done some major work to align the design and feel across the whole application. We’ve also got some brand new native apps for android and iOS that will be out a few weeks after the desktop release.

Here are some of the highlights for this major release milestone.

Volunteer Roles

Many of our larger customers, and those with greater governance requirements will get alot from this new feature. It’s a bit like super charged APPLY FIRST feature!

A role is a set of steps that must be completed before a volunteer is approved on an opportunity.  Super admins define the role, which is organised around four steps, each with as many (or no) tasks as you require. Each role has its own name, description, and a spot to add some information that is emailed to the volunteer when they first apply for a role.

Roles are applied to one or more opportunities, and once a volunteer has completed all steps on a role they can join any opportunity which requires that matching role, once they have satisfied any other pre-requisites to joining.

For example; if a volunteer joins a litter picking opportunity which has a role called ‘basic role’ then they will be required to jump through a number of onboarding steps as defined by the ROLE.  But once they have done this they can go onto join any other opportunity which is also linked to the ‘basic role steps’ and it will not require them to go through the steps again (as they have already completed those role steps).

Each task can be flagged as actionable by the volunteer or administrator, they can complete that task from their dashboard when they have satisfied the requirements.

Administrators are alerted when a volunteer joins an opportunity requiring a ROLE, they are alerted via the actions tab on their main landing page. 

The administrator can then monitor and record the volunteers progress through each of the steps within the ROLE, through to completion. 

Each role task can be started by an admin, then completed and a full history log is maintained and visible at all times.

An application can be approved once all the tasks have been completed, but there is no enforced order to task completion.

When a volunteer is approved on the ROLE they are emailed (custom emails available of course) and shown a list of corresponding opportunities that they are now eligible to join.

Additionally, if a opportunity has its own APPLY FIRST status and a role requirement, then once the volunteer is approved for the role they are automatically placed in the applicants queue for that opportunity, they wont have to do anything else.

New Scheduling Features

We’ve added a brand new feature for adding volunteers to sessions. You can now select any number of volunteers and add or remove them from any number of sessions in one hit!

You can select from the current joined volunteer list, or search for new volunteers.

It’s super simple but much quicker than moving them individually (still available).

We’ve also re-designed our day schedule report so it’s much easier to see what is going on day by day.

You can still view any period and restrict it to certain opportunities or events, but now you’ll see every day in that period in a calendar like display.

You get the day, all the opps that have sessions on that day, how full the session is (full sessions are highlighted) and can click  through to view a list of volunteers on that session.

You’ll be able to see empty days and poorly subscribed sessions really easily, then click through and start adding volunteers using the new multi-add feature we just introduced!

Re-Designed Applicants Dashboard

Applicants are now clearly divided into new, successful, and denied. You can instantly approve or deny a new applicant and then revert that decision and mark them as newly approved. This was something that proved popular in the roadmap voting.

The on-screen messaging and alerts have been improved and standardised so you’ll always know what’s happening.

Modern Front Page

Although our existing front page allows for a lot of customisation, many of our customers have been asking for a simpler cleaner look to their front page.

So we’ve have added a new modern layout that will be the default for all new customers. It’s got much simpler settings, just a single image and a message box, to worry about, looks great on all screen sizes, and gets right to the point so volunteers can login and register quickly.

Multiple Provider Accounts

This is a useful little feature for when there are multiple individuals at an organisation that all need to login as providers as manage their opportunities, but dont want to share login details.

Providers can now create and manage their own user list without any intervention required from the admins or super admins. Just add a name, email address and password and they can go ahead and login.

Multiple Meetings and New Meeting Features

Previously a volunteer could only have one active meeting at a time, now you can book and manage as many meetings as you like for volunteers.

 

Additionally we have added the ability to specify if the meeting is to be virtual, and if so, to add the link to the virtual meeting, or if not the location of a face to face meeting. You can also add a custom message which gets sent along with the normal custom email for new meetings, so you can let them know any extra information they need.

We’ve also tidied up the induction section of a volunteer manage dashboard and added the meeting details there. From here you get a link back to manage meetings and can also add a new meeting for the volunteer right from their dashboard.

Opportunity Badges

These are linked to opportunities showing that the opportunity is linked to a specific award scheme.

Example:  If logged hours on the opportunity can go towards a volunteers Duke of Edinburgh Award, then they might attach it to the ‘DofE Opportunity Badge’. 

Just add a name, description, and a badge image to create your opportunity badges. These can then be added to your opportunities, filtered on in the search and are displayed to the volunteers.

Great for quickly indicating to your volunteers what sort of opportunity its likely to be.

Gender List Editable in Alt Language

For those of you that take advantage of our alt language feature and translations (and if you don’t..why not?!) you can now view and edit your gender lists in your chosen alt language.

These are instantly reflected on the registration pages..which brings us to…

New Volunteer Registration

Volunteers begin their registration either by providing an email address, or by registering with Google or Facebook.

If they use and email address they will receive an email with a special link to confirm their email address and continue with their registration.

This will cut down drastically the number of bogus registrations and also reduces the initial inertia for registration. This first step of registration is recorded and we’ll be able to get some great insight into what is preventing volunteers from completing their registration.

We have also worked on the registration page itself; made it shorter, improved the location section, and added more on-screen help.

 

We think it’s a definite improvement and will hopefully lead to a higher rate of successful registrations.

New Search Page

The public search page is now more compact and the events have been moved to the right so they don’t obscure the results.

When viewed on smaller screens the layout adjusts accordingly so events are still visible.

Opportunity Images

You might have noticed in the screenshot for the search page that we now support adding images to opportunities!

We know from our experience that this has to be quick and painless or providers just don’t bother. So we’ve put in place a number of features to try to make this easy for providers.

  1. Images are mandatory for opportunities, you cant add your first opportunity without uploading at least one image
  2. You can select from your previous images, so once you have one you don’t have to keep uploading
  3. When creating an opp, it will default to your last used image

 

ABOVE: Admin/Providers view when creating opportunity
ABOVE: Volunteer view of opportunity with image

It really couldn’t be easier! These images are responsive and will adjust in height and width to cope with any sized screen.

Everything Else

  • Multiple groups are selectable from the bulk email screens
  • Can add files to the private notes section
  • Course management improved
  • More admin options available
  • More opportunity sharing data available along with suggestions of other organisations you might want to join forces with
  • Volunteers can see how many slots are available in each session before they join
  • Induction questions are now sortable
  • New report showing the ethnicity breakdown of active volunteers
  • New opportunity search filters
  • The usual 100’s of small fixes and improvements

Press Release: 13/08/2020 Rugby Football League

Rugby Football League Chooses TeamKinetic As Their Official Accreditation System

TeamKinetic creates an accreditation system to allow for access badges at every Rugby League match.

Since October 2019, TeamKinetic has been the supplier of the accreditation software for the Rugby Super league Grand Final. In 2020 TeamKinetic have now become the accreditation supplier for the whole of the Rugby Football League, providing an accreditation software for all matches. 

The Rugby League was put on hold in March 2020 due to the pandemic. For this to return safely the sport needed an accreditation system to allow matches to run again. 

Robbie Stott, Events Coordinator for the Rugby Football League said “We knew the pressure would be on when bringing the Super League games back and trying to safely manage everyone coming through the stadium doors. TeamKinetic have provided excellent support in a short-time frame, by creating a digital solution to allow for Rugby League to go ahead.”

The accreditation system allows for the safe management of personnel on game days, by recording identity and health checks of each person. 

Each person on the premises will have zones they can and cannot enter depending on the health checks they have had. These zones can be printed onto badges for any specific person for ease when going into their zones. 

Chris Martin, Managing Director of TeamKinetic said “We are proud to be providing a working accreditation system which will allow for the Rugby League to resume safely. Myself and everyone at TeamKinetic are excited to be working with the Rugby Football League and continuing to support them in the future.”  

If you are interested in an accreditation system for your organisation, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us at TeamKinetic on the contact details below.

Ends

Contact Details:

For more information, please contact TeamKinetic on 0161 914 5757. 

Or email chris@teamkinetic.co.uk

We Need to Dream of the Perfect World

Take a moment to picture your perfect world, to dream………….Compare that image to what you perceive right now. I suspect it feels different from your perfect world. We wanted to take some time to reflect on what is happening right now, and talk about how what we all can do to make a difference.

This week marks National Volunteers’ Week in the UK, which would usually be a great cause for celebration here at TeamKinetic, as it is a celebration of what can be achieved when people come together. However, this year, this has been overshadowed by the news from America. Yet again, we see the ugly spectre of racism raise its vile head, in the terrible murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police. Graphically captured on video and shared a billion times across social media. This shocking scene has put into motion a series of events that look set to rock the world.

Our challenge is how do we plot a course through these terrible events and come out of the darkness to stand together united and stronger, how do we make our dream of a more fair and equitable society for all people, no matter their colour, race, sexual orientation, come true?

Be the change you want to see in the world!

What does it take to build a healthy community? A community operates on some basic fundamental ideals. You need to share beliefs by which you will all choose to live. To do this there needs to be a level of trust between the members. Individuals respect the rights and beliefs of others even if they are different from their own. Individuals have a responsibility to their community to do what is necessary to ensure the beliefs of that community are upheld.

Communities, like families, support and help one another. They don’t always agree on everything, they sometimes have significant disagreements about how to do things, but with effective leadership, trust and respect they can achieve things which seem quite impossible.

Tribalism, partisan politics, popularism, and a rampant misinformation engine are forces that divide society. So now, more than ever we need to make the impossible, possible. To take this dreadful incident and use it as a driver for positive change. No matter your ethnicity, religious or political beliefs, we’re all members of one community, the human race, and if we are to all live together we must all be willing to accept and respect one another.

Each and every one of us has the ability to make a difference, to be a better member of our community. We must take personal responsibility for our actions, its not enough to do nothing, to stay silent. Community is not passive, you need to proactively work for your beliefs and to make your world the place you want to live. It will not be easy, there will be failure and argument, but if you believe in the dream we started this blog with we must all accept our responsibilities.

Be vocal, be organised, but remember. You can’t solve violence with violence

Real change takes time, it requires many millions of people to generate inertia, to vote for politicians that offer hope not hate, that offer a progressive choice not the status quo. This message is not just a hashtag or a social post. Real change, the kind that lasts for generations must be built on a bedrock of a change in peoples beliefs and values. We must all be more vocal when we see discrimination in any form, we must call it out for what it is, as saying nothing is as good as supporting it. We must look at how we support those who have dedicated their lives to fight discrimination.

Support – Ways You Can Help

Educate – Understanding Racism in America

People are angry. We are seeing violence, born of frustration and fear, but violence can not be the only option, it can’t be the default response, as it will only lead to more fear and more violence. Instead, we need organisation, action and a new community built on the shared beliefs of equality.

Spirit of Volunteering

2020 has been full of lessons about what people are truly capable of, both the good and the bad. We began lockdown by working together and looking after one another, with a pandemic still hanging over all of our heads, we must continue to look after each other through taking responsibility for our own actions. Volunteering has helped massively during this health crisis and is an amazing example of what people are willing to do. I hope we can take similar lessons from the COVID-19 response and use that same energy to make the world a little better for all minority people. Volunteering, getting involved, doing your bit, being an engaged and proactive member within your community, charity, education, sport or health group. It doesn’t matter what it is as long as we continue to unite and work together our dream may one day come true.

We are all one race
The Human Race

TeamKinetic want to live by the same values we have discussed here. We want to support the type of organisations that are trying to make the world a more equitable place to live. That is why we are offering the use of our service for FREE for any community group for 6 months that can demonstrate how their work will help address these inequalities. If you would like to take advantage of this offer please contact the team here 

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