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Trusted Partners

Through our Trusted Partners scheme, Volunteer Scotland promotes best practice and fosters collaboration by actively identifying organisations, groups, and individuals who provide a product or service that supports volunteer development.

To promote their resources and services, our Trusted Partners have demonstrated that they support our mission, deliver great customer service, and provide products or services that are safe and of good quality.  

We aim to grow the scheme to include national and local charities & intermediaries, accreditation providers, suppliers of volunteer management systems, trainers, professional services, health & wellbeing providers, consultants, coaches & mentors, membership organisations, suppliers of PPE & operational equipment, award providers, event managers and fundraising experts. 

Volunteer Scotland facilitates Trusted Partnerships through a formal application and evaluation process. Although we promote these thirdparty products and services, Volunteer Scotland does not control or guarantee these, and is not responsible for any actions, omissions, quality issues, or outcomes arising from their use. Users of Trusted Partner products and services should carry out their own due diligence before engaging with any thirdparty provider.  

Please explore the categories below to find the product or service you are looking for.  

Interested in becoming a Trusted Partner?

Download our sales brochure and find out how to become a Trusted Partner and the benefits to you or your organisation.
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Trusted Partner Categories

Consultancy, coaching, mentoring & fundraising
Training, development, awards and accreditation
Volunteer management systems

We are actively seeking Trusted Partners across the following categories

If you are interested in becoming a Trusted Partner, please contact us.

  • Design & Marketing Services
  • Event management and venues
  • Membership organisations
  • Suppliers of PPE & operational equipment
  • Governance Services (legal, audit, accountancy, insurance, HR)
  • Health and Wellbeing services
  • Other

Consultancy, coaching, mentoring & fundraising

Royal Voluntary Service

At Royal Voluntary Service (RVS) , our mission is to mobilise volunteers for a better Britain. We provide a range of Health & Community services to support people, communities, the NHS and Social Care. We partner with companies, charities, and the NHS to expand support where it’s needed most.

The launch of GoVo platform provides charities with a free-to-access means of recruiting and matching volunteers to roles, and supports Corporate Volunteering (also known as Employer Supported Volunteering or ESV).

RVS is able proudly able to provide:

  • Commissioned Solutions. Tailored programmes that empower individuals, communities, and NHS teams.
  • Retail Solutions. Bringing bespoke cafés, shops and trolley services to hospitals and community spaces.
  • WRVS Services Welfare. Confidential welfare support for single and unaccompanied service personnel.
  • Business Services. Our Volunteering Marketplace will help create a volunteering programme for your company.
  • GoVo for Charities. Boost your volunteer recruitment with GoVo, the free to use digital platform.
  • We also specialise in: Training, development, awards and accreditation // Governance services // Event management and venues // Health and Wellbeing
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Rob Jackson Consulting Ltd

Rob Jackson Consulting Ltd delivers expert support that is passionate about the potential of people.
We are all about engaging and inspiring people to bring about change.

We have a passion for volunteering and we want to help you get even better at engaging, leading and managing volunteers.
We will challenge, support, inspire and motivate you to think differently about volunteering in order to meet the challenges of the modern age.

We provide consulting, learning and mentoring support to organisations across the UK and around the globe.
Our services are aimed at helping you give people a great experience, make the most of the valuable time they give you and, above all, achieve your goals.

Since 2011 we have supported hundreds of organisations, from large household name charities, to small volunteer-led community groups.

We are excited to become a Volunteer Scotland Knowledge Gateway Trusted Partner because we hope to help and support more organisations to grow and develop volunteering across Scotland. We look forward to playing an active role in strengthen the health of volunteering across the country.

Our founder and director, Rob Jackson, has over 30 years experience working in the voluntary and community sector, holding a variety of strategic development and senior management roles that have focused on leading and engaging volunteers. A world renowned expert and thought leader, Rob is co-author of The Complete Volunteer Management Handbook (DSC, 2012 and 2019) and From The Top Down – UK Edition (Energize Inc., 2015).

Rob Jackson Consulting Ltd’s values are: Honesty; Passion; Fun; Integrity; Value; and Effectiveness.

  • We also specialise in: Training, development, awards and accreditation // Consultancy, coaching, mentoring and fundraising
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Time for Impact

Time for Impact is a specialist consultancy dedicated to the volunteering sector. Through expert guidance, targeted training, innovative products, and our industry-leading podcast, we help mission-driven organisations:

Prove the Impact: We reveal the hidden ROI of your volunteer programme. Using our Volunteering Impact Toolkit, we help you turn anecdotal success into undeniable, measurable value.

Unlock the Potential: We help you transform passive goodwill into active participation. With our comparative volunteer experience surveys, you can benchmark your performance against the wider sector, identify areas for growth, and rapidly build a thriving community of supporters.

Shape the Future: We lead the charge in sector innovation, helping you design modern, forward-thinking volunteering strategies.

From big-picture strategic thinking to practical, data-driven tools, we partner with you to ensure volunteer engagement thrives at the heart of your cause.

  • We also specialise in: Training, development, awards and accreditation // Event management and venues
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Training, development, awards and accreditation

Volunteer Glasgow

Our “Smarter Volunteer Manager” training programme has been developed and refined over the last 22 years, providing a framework for any volunteer manager to take a holistic approach to their volunteering opportunities. It is delivered in small-groups (usually online), as a bespoke action-learning set, enabling peer-learning, and using a ‘Dynamic Model’ of volunteer management best practice that can be applied to any opportunity, anywhere. The 18-hour programme, plus Workbook, online resources, and post-programme support, costs £250. If you have a volunteer management role as part of a third sector (not-for-profit) group or organisation, and the group’s annual income is less than £20k, you can apply for a free place.
 
The Smarter Volunteer Manager programme is a very effective introduction to best practice. But it also enables more experienced organisers and decision-makers to review their approaches in the context of external pressures, challenges and development opportunities.
 
As a ‘volunteer centre’ and as a partner in Glasgow’s Third Sector Interface, everything we do is built on effective working relationships.  We collaborate with colleagues across every sector that involves people volunteering: helping you find the volunteers you need, sharing best practice, learning from each other, continually improving and refining the Smarter Volunteer Manager programme.  We are a Qualifications Scotland (SQA) Approved Centre, delivering employability, customer service and business admin accredited awards. We also provide community-based Young Persons Befriending and Mentoring Services and hold an ‘Excellence’-rated Quality in Befriending Award from Befriending Networks UK; helping the city to, “get it right for every child”.
  • We also specialise in: Consultancy, coaching, mentoring and fundraising // Volunteer Management Systems

Council for Certification in Volunteer Administration (CCVA)

We are part of the Knowledge Gateway to promote the Council for Certification in Volunteer Administration credentials and professional ethics in volunteer administration to volunteer engagement practitioners in Scotland. We would also like to promote the Is Everyone Welcome? toolkit. This is a free online toolkit for practitioners who want to apply a lens of equity to their work in partnering with volunteers and community.

Our values are Citizenship, Respect, Accountability, Fairness and Trust.

Our Strategic Direction:

  • ADVOCATE – Champion the CVA credential, current certificants, and the profession to ensure quality, credibility and sustainability.
  • UNIFY – Strengthen the field of volunteer engagement by promoting a universal framework for excellence in professional practice.
  • INSTILL – Inspire and encourage practitioners to apply an ethical lens to their work with volunteers.
  • REACH – Elevate global professionalism in volunteer administration by sharing the Body of Knowledge
    and being responsive to emerging interests in certification.
  • MANAGE – Govern and manage CCVA to ensure operational efficiency and effectiveness

We conduct a job analysis every ten years to confirm that our Body of Knowledge and Competencies are relevant, reliable and valid.

  • We also specialise in: Consultancy, coaching, mentoring and fundraising
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Volunteer Management Systems

TeamKinetic

TeamKinetic: Connect with great value volunteer management software

TeamKinetic is an independent, socially focused technology company dedicated to making volunteering easier for everyone. Guided by our core “Volunteer First” mantra, we believe in the power of connected communities and are committed to leaving the voluntary sector in a better state than we found it. As part of this commitment, we reinvest our profits back into the sector through advocacy, skill-sharing, and time banking.

Our cloud-based Volunteer Management System (VMS) empowers organisations and volunteer managers to seamlessly mobilise, manage, measure, and motivate their volunteer workforce. Delivered as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), the platform features a modern, mobile-first design and includes dedicated iOS and Android apps for volunteers on the go. We uniquely offer unlimited volunteer accounts, enabling our partners to scale their impact without restrictive per-user pricing tiers.

The TeamKinetic VMS centralises and automates the entire volunteer lifecycle.

  • Mobilise & Manage: The platform streamlines recruitment and onboarding with customisable workflows. It reduces administrative burdens through integrated digital background checks, automated communications, reference tracking, and robust shift scheduling.
  • Measure: To help organisations demonstrate their social value, the system offers powerful, real-time reporting, analytics, and custom data fields.
  • Motivate: We boost retention through built-in recognition tools, including digital achievement badges and seamless integrations with external reward schemes like Tempo Time Credits and Tickets for Good.

Our Reach and Community: We are a trusted partner to over 500 organisations across the UK, spanning local government, universities, charities, NHS trusts, and National Governing Bodies of sport. To date, our platform supports over 500,000 registered volunteers who have logged millions of dedicated hours.

Beyond software, TeamKinetic acts as a capacity-building partner. We proudly host the Digital in Volunteering Community of Practice

  • We also specialise in: Training, development, awards and accreditation // Consultancy, coaching, mentoring and fundraising
  • Discount offer: Organisation who sign up to the VMS for a year get 2 months free
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