Tag: The Big Help Out

How to Utilise The Big Help Out as a Sporting Organisation

We all know the value of The Big Help Out at this point. It was a huge event last year, with an estimated 7.2 million people taking part. Organisations offering all types of opportunities will be involved this year, but we want to focus on sport in this blog. With Volunteers’ Week and The Big Help Out around the corner, it’s natural to want to get involved. Sport volunteering at The Big Help Out might seem like a good fit, but there are a few factors that might make it tricky.

Want to advertise sport volunteering at The Big Help Out?

Picture this. You’re a grassroots club with a dedicated cohort of volunteers. You want to get involved with The Big Help Out, but where do you start? The campaign is all about getting new people involved in volunteering in easy, short-term ways. But your club needs stability and you can’t just throw someone new into the volunteer roles you have.

So where do you start?

One method could be to host some kind of event that is separate to the core activity of your club. For example, a community day can give volunteers a great entry point into your club. Putting on fun activities for people in your local community to get to know what you’re all about can also open the door for short-term easy volunteering opportunities.

sport volunteering at The Big Help Out with a community sports day

Once they have that entry point, they’ll be more likely to want to jump through the hoops you need them to jump through in order to become a long-term volunteer. Whether this is completing training, undergoing a DBS check, or getting references from past roles, these barriers often stand in the way of short-term volunteering.

Ultimately, it’s about creating opportunities that are adjacent to something you want a volunteer to do in the long term. And it’s important to establish these before The Big Help Out. You don’t want to attract a load of new volunteers who are hungry to help, only to have nothing to offer them afterwards.

So for example, if you’re hosting a community sports day, you could ask volunteers to set up the activities and explain the rules. While this is a small task, it could be a gateway to a coaching position.
Alternatively, you could invite someone to come and take pictures of your community sports day, this could be a great entry point to becoming the club photographer when the season starts back up again.

sport volunteering at The Big Help Out through photography

How do we turn sport volunteering at The Big Help Out into something sustainable?

Sport volunteering at The Big Help Out is all about creating short-term tasters that can become sustainable long-term opportunities. It’s important to have a plan in place that outlines what opportunities you plan to make available at The Big Help Out and how these develop into longer-term opportunities for new volunteers to get involved with.


Find out more about The Big Help Out

The Big Help Out is taking place across the weekend of 7th – 9th of June. This coincides with Volunteers Week and The Great Get Together. Find out everything you need to know about The Big Help Out over on their website.

TeamKinetic will also be providing our users with DoIt integration. This means any TeamKinetic users can share their TK opportunities directly to the DoIt platform. Check out the full process below or read our blog here.


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New TeamKinetic Integration for the Big Help Out 2024

We are very excited (and exhausted) to bring you the new TeamKinetic integration for The Big Help Out with DoIt, the platform supporting the 2024 campaign.

We have a video which will take you through the steps and explain the process and you can read a little more about how to register with DoIt and finding your API key with this little piece from DoIt.

The Process

It starts from your super admin menu; find the SETUP page and then the API & Integrations section. You’ll find a section titled DoIt (The Big Help Out).


Here you will find the registration link. This link will allow you to register with DoIt and also join the Big Help Out application. If you already have a DoIt account you should still follow this link as it will check to make sure you already have the Big Help Out app and if not ask you for permission to add it.


Once you have completed the registration process you’ll end up at your DoIt dashboard. On the left hand side hit the Org Settings menu and then look for the Integrations section. In that section you’ll find the API key bit you need.


Hit the generate new key and a new key will be created and displayed on the screen. There is a COPY KEY button you can use to copy the key to your clipboard. Once you have it copied return to your TeamKinetic app and paste the API key into the box ‘Your API Key’ and hit SAVE.


TeamKinetic will scurry off and check that we can connect to your DoIt account and confirm this by displaying your current list of DoIt apps as above. If you see an error message check your key and try again.

That’s it for the setup, from now on when you create an opportunity, on the Promoting and Sharing tab, you ‘ll be asked if you want to share to DoIt and to select the app you want to share to (The Big Help Out in this case).


When managing the opportunity you’ll see in the sharing tab that the oop is shared along with a link to view the opportunity on DoIt and also a button to remove the opportunity from DoIt.


When potential volunteers find your opportunities on The Big Help Out, there is an external apply link that they follow which leads them back to your TeamKinetic website where they can register and join your opportunity. Even if they have a DoIt account they will still get returned to your website.


Providers can also link their own DoIt account in the same way, and share their opportunities to their own DoIt account. This is preferable if you can encourage your providers to do this as it keeps everything nice and tidy and aligned without the potential for duplicating opportunities between one of your partners and yourself. Providers can enter their API key from the Account > Details & Setup page on the integrations tab.


It doesn’t matter whether the opportunity has been uploaded to your DoIt account, or directly to a provider’s DoIt account, the resulting opportunity on DoIt will be the same and the potential volunteer will end up back at your website.

Once you’ve managed to create your account and paste in your DoIt API key it’s super simple from that point on and you’ll soon be sharing your opps to The Big Help Out 2024!


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TeamKinetic will be helping you with the Big Help Out and DoIt

A new partnership between TeamKinetic and DoIt promises to help you share your opportunities during The Big Help Out.

The Big Help Out is going ahead again in 2024 and here at TeamKinetic, we’ve got you covered to make sure your opportunities can be included.

We have partnered up again with DoIt to prepare a way for you to share your opportunities with DoIt so they can be included in the Big Help Out and beyond.

When active, providers will be able to link their existing DoIt account to the TeamKinetic platform and elect to share individual opportunities with DoIt. They will appear as new activities on the DoIt platform with a link back to the providers’ opportunity on TeamKinetic.

Linking is a simple matter of sharing the secret API key that you can find on your DoIt dashboard. Just cut and paste the key and that’s it.

We are also exploring the possibility of giving admin users the option of sharing opportunities with DoIt. This would be under their own DoIt account, where the provider is unable or unwilling to create a DoIt account or to share the API key with us. This means the shared opportunities will appear under your persona on DoIt, but otherwise will operate in the same way.

If you are interested, get in touch through the usual channels so we can start to prepare your TeamKinetic application to be ready for the Big Help Out.

When is The Big Help Out?

The Big Help Out will take place between the 6th and 9th of June, at the end of Volunteers’ Week (3rd – 9th).

The objective of The Big Help Out is to raise awareness of volunteering throughout the UK and provide opportunities for people to experience volunteering and make a difference in their communities.

About Us, The Big Help Out

Together with DoIt, we’re hoping to make a big difference, making it easier for people to get involved and help out in their communities.


The link between TeamKinetic and DoIt is not active yet. We are hoping to have it ready in good time before The Big Help Out 2024. But if you have any questions about this collaboration in the meantime, please reach out.

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