Sharing opportunities with offline volunteers just got easier!

We've added a 'Print' button to all opportunities, and if you click it you'll be given the same set of printing options you'd see if printing a webpage (including 'Save as PDF' if enabled on your device), with the opportunity details cleanly and plainly formatted for easy reading.

The printable opportunity also includes the contact details provided in the opportunity, so volunteers can easily get in touch even if they're offline and unable to apply through Be Collective.

We've listened to feedback from volunteer managers and updated our opportunity builder, making it easier to write compelling opportunity descriptions for your volunteers!

If you're a volunteer manager, you now have helpful hints and examples to support you in writing your opportunity description. We've also made things easier by providing a list builder for specific tasks and responsibilities, which are shown on the social CVs of all approved volunteers.

Any  opportunities you've posted before this update will contain the overview you've already provided, and you can edit the opportunity to add tasks and responsibilities.

For more guidance on how to post an opportunity on Be Collective, please take a look at our Help Centre article here.

Good news for volunteer resource centres, and other organisations – our Opportunities CSV export has been improved to include more data on opportunities you've endorsed.

We've also improved reporting on tagged opportunities. This make it easier to report on opportunities tagged under our recent Covid–19 campaign.

The following new fields have added to this export:

• External organiser – the group providing the opportunity
• External organiser location – the location of the group providing the opportunity
• External organiser postcode – the location of the group providing the opportunity (if provided)
• Campaigns – any campaigns attached as tags to the opportunity
• Opportunity postcode – the postcode of the location where the opportunity is based (if provided)

Our application forms for groups and opportunities have undergone a makeover! The new forms make applications quicker for volunteers, and setting up application forms easier for volunteer managers.

As part of this update, basic details provided by a volunteer as part of their Be Collective profile – such as name, age and contact details – will be included automatically on all application forms. This saves the volunteer time they'd have previously spent entering these details again, and ensures volunteer managers receive the information they need.

If you have any existing opportunities listed, we advise you to review your existing application forms to ensure fields haven't been duplicated.

For more information on how to customise your application forms, please see our Help Centre article here.

Following some feedback from our volunteer managers, we've made some improvements to the partnerships panel in group management mode.

Now, volunteer managers can see not only the groups they're partnered with; they can also see contact details for each partner group, the number of opportunities the group has and the number of opportunities they've endorsed for you.

You can also toggle on or off automatic opportunity endorsement for each partner from the partnerships panel, without visiting the profile for each partner group.

Please note, the public view of your partnerships in your group profile remains unchanged - the view above is shown only to group managers, in group management mode.

Great news for volunteers - testimonials from volunteer managers are now included on your social record. Now, anyone you share your social CV with can now see the glowing reviews you earn for your volunteering!

All you need to do is select the opportunities you'd like to include on your social record when you export it from the social record tab of your profile, and any testimonials attached to these opportunities will automatically be included.

'Work from anywhere' opportunities, including virtual & online opportunities which you can do from your computer at home, are now much easier to find on Be Collective!

All you need to do is click on 'Find an opportunity' in the menu, then check the 'Work from anywhere' box under the Location field before you search.

Improved invitation forms

For volunteer managers, we've expanded the forms we provide for entering new volunteers' details when you're invite them to join Be Collective. In addition to name and email address, you can now enter phone numbers, dates of birth, emergency contact details, notes and more.

We'd love to hear your feedback! Please feel free to contact us at help@becollective.com.

Some of our users have requested a 'country of birth' field as part of the application form builder, and we've delivered! This can be found on the 'commonly used fields' section of our form builder.

We'd love to hear from you if you have any feedback - please feel free to get in touch at help@becollective.com.