TeamKinetic and The Student Room work to make student life better
TeamKinetic becomes the new supplier to The Student Room
The Student Room (TSR) is the UK’s largest online student community. It exists to provide every student from GCSE to the world of work with peer-led online support. The Student Room community allows students to support each other, as they fully believe that the people best placed to offer support are those who are going through or have recently come out the other side of the student experience.
Mhairi Underwood, Head of Community at The Student Room, has been working with TeamKinetic over the last year. Testing the TeamKinetic volunteer management application, to see if a digital platform would improve the support of volunteers in the organisation, and improve workflows for staff.
Since February 2019, TeamKinetic has been supplying its volunteer management application to TSR as part of a pilot, to explore how a digital volunteer management application might provide added value to TSR’s volunteers and staff. TSR has a dedicated team of volunteers across the UK and around the world, providing peer-based support via its online forums. We are proud to announce that based on the success of this pilot project, TeamKinetic will be continuing to work with TSR, developing their volunteer workforce and supporting their development as a student-first organisation.
Mhairi said “We’ve found that by adopting TeamKinetic as our in-house volunteer management platform, we’re able to completely streamline our volunteer administration in a way that provides both us and the volunteers with control and trust. Once it was embedded, we were able to focus much more fully on the things that really made a difference for our volunteers and our community, knowing the administration was taken care of.”
Chris Martin, Director of TeamKinetic, said “The Student Room is a unique organisation, which provides a wealth of services to young people, they know their audience and the importance of digital in engaging that audience and we love that! Working with them during the initial pilot stage to enhance their volunteer program and support the amazing work they do has been a real pleasure. I look forward to seeing how the offer develops over the next 12 months.”
TeamKinetic hopes to continue to build better volunteering communities throughout many different organisations, no matter how big or small.
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For more information, please contact TeamKinetic on 0161 914 5757. Or email chris@teamkinetic.co.uk