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Lockdown 3! How did we get here? <\/p>\n

Flashback to 10 months ago…<\/p>\n

March 23rd 2020, Boris Johnson addressed the nation to declare the first Lockdown in the UK. At this moment many people, myself included, believed this lockdown would only last a few weeks and we would be back to normal before we know it. Little did we know, 10 months later we would be 3 weeks into our 3rd Lockdown. <\/p>\n

The Evolution of Lockdowns<\/h2>\n

Let’s start from the beginning. Lockdown 1 begins on the 23rd March. People are told not to go to work and others are told to start shielding. Here begins the volunteering boom! The vulnerable are having to shield to protect themselves from the virus but are unable to go shopping, collect prescriptions or get any other essentials. This is where the efforts of locals began to show, people took charge creating mutual aid groups to protect and help the shielding. Irene Cree from Glasgow Life agreed that ”Mutual aid groups reacted really quickly, in many respects much quicker than the public sector did.” <\/em>They reacted so quick in fact that according to the report Communities Vs Coronavirus: The Rise of Mutual Aid, <\/a>in July it was recorded 4,000 of these groups were formed since the beginning of the pandemic, with as many as three million participants.<\/p>\n

The solidarity of our country showed the support we had for one another, but when another lockdown hit us in the midst of winter, there were the initial signs of burnout to be seen!<\/p>\n

Lockdown 2 was hard, a month of rain and cold in the lead up to the busiest time of the year. This lockdown I know for myself was a struggle and like many, the urge to volunteer was decreasing. Mutual aid groups were still doing their thing, but with limited support from stake holders like local authorities, their efforts were struggling.  It cetrianly felt harder to protect those they had up to this point.<\/p>\n

Technology has played a signifcant role and for some mutual said groups has been a main ingredient to their success in the pandemic, however many mutual aid groups were trapped in a non-digital hell hole trying to manage all of their volunteers and tasks from spreadsheets and whats app. <\/p>\n

Fast forward to today and we are 3 weeks into lockdown 3. Fatigue is very real and obvious and we can only image how hard it must be for mutual aid groups this time round.<\/p>\n

Technology still offers real opportunity for many mutual aid groups. Many have survived through the strength of will and chacter of their main participants but to keep on going they will need to use technology to ensure the organisational resliance and data security are in place to enable them to carry on. They also need lots of support from their local stakeholders in health, local government and the community if they are  to keep this community solidarity going. <\/p>\n

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Can you Help Mutual Aid Groups?<\/h2>\n

So, how can you help? Back in August 2020 we spoke with Nivvi Morales, a member of COVID-19 Kenilworth Support<\/a>, about their time using TeamKinetic to manage their volunteers. Their need for “a volunteer management system where we could communicate efficiently, assign tasks, track tasks, and keep our data safe.”<\/em> was met, as we were able to provide the support and security they required. <\/p>\n

But for many they do not have the experiance, skill set or knowledge to adopt a digital system to keep their data secure and volunteers enagaged.  ‘Local authorities can help make mutual aid a positive legacy of COVID-19<\/a>‘ offers some useful advice:<\/p>\n

“Mutual aid groups are based on volunteers acting on their own free will. Local authorities must encourage and promote mutual aid groups for what they are \u2013 the social capital of a neighbourhood. A strategy that promotes mutual aid should be light touch, work with existing community partners, and focus on facilitating rather than directing activity. Mutual aid groups should always retain the ability to decide what they do and how they work.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Being able to support these groups is crucial and a way to do this is through technical guidance. Helping them find a secure and manageable system will keep them in control of their volunteers and opportunityies and tasks whilst ensuring individuals feel safe, valued and enaged.<\/p>\n

TeamKinetic<\/h2>\n

Improves communication, creates easy reports automatically, keeps sensitive data secure, options for DBS checks and provides more opportunities to recognise volunteers\u2019 efforts. Sound like the ideal features these groups need? Well, we have you covered. TeamKinetic allows for all of these and can provide impeccable support as seen with COVID-19 Kenilworth support “the ability to raise a ticket if they had an issue with the system, which would then be supported straight away.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Our community task function was specifically designed with mutual aid groups in mind. These allow for volunteers to pick up tasks such as, picking up shopping, collecting prescriptions and delivering these to the shielding person. Claire Redford-Kerr from St Helens and Halton VCA has spoke about how they have used the the community tasks dashboard and how “our volunteers [can] very quickly pick up tasks on there [and] they can chat to one another on there. So being able to text them or email them as a group or a specific cohort of volunteers, it\u2019s really important for us and helps us to manage the way, when and who gets involved.”<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

If you would like more information about our system please visit our website<\/a> or call on 0161 914 5757. You can also set up a 30 day free trial to test out all of our features!<\/p>\n

Stay Safe!<\/p>\n

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