UNITED BY VOLUNTEERS

EVENT, YOUTH &
SKILLED VOLUNTEERS

Event volunteering, youth volunteering, skilled volunteering – we do it all!

Keeping the pride alive with
our partners & supporters

UNITED BY 2022 EVENT & VOLUNTEER SERVICES

UNITED BY VOLUNTEERING

With over 2,500 legacy Games volunteers, partnerships with local businesses offering skilled volunteers, and an award-winning youth volunteering programme under our belt, volunteering, in all its shapes and sizes, is our bread and butter. 

We offer 3 different types of volunteering: 

The stand-out stars of any event!

Whether it’s a major sporting event, or a community festival, our place-based volunteers are always the icing on the cake! Don’t take out word for it, we asked a few of our volunteers what they love about it:

UB22 Event Volunteering & Services

Event Volunteers

Our Volunteer Collective is a 2,500 strong, place-based volunteer workforce for events across the West Midlands.  

Local people, with local knowledge, bags of local pride, ready to offer your visitors a warm Brummie welcome!  

We offer 3 tiers of service (subsidised by the Charity to make it affordable for all): 
Free – use our portal to advertise your event, the volunteers apply directly to you, you then shortlist and manage their onboarding.  

Partial fee – we know resources can be tight, so we can advertise your event, shortlist applicants, allocate shifts and manage the onboarding, for a subsidised fee which covers our staff time.  

Full fee – we offer a 360 service which includes all of the above, plus on venue training and our team on site at your event, managing shifts – we delivered this for the 4-day Sport Accord conference at the ICC, which had 1,700 delegates and used 130 of our volunteers. Here’s what they had to say about our service… 

Above all, the superb volunteers provided by United By 2022 did an outstanding job of bringing the pride and passion generated around the Commonwealth Games for the city and the region into the event. With their friendliness, their knowledge and passion they really put the heart into SportAccord!

Martin Gibbs, Managing Director, Sport Accord 

Skills & Volunteering for young people

Youth Volunteers

Since 2021 we have provided award winning (& free to access) employability boosting volunteer opportunities for disadvantaged young people aged 16-24. 

Specifically designed to support young people who face barriers to accessing opportunities, maybe they are a young carer or parent, have a criminal record, or lack confidence to engage with society. We work with organisations to offer a 30-hour volunteer assignment, which often leads on to paid employment.  

We also offer support and funding to young people wanting to improve their communities through social action.

Gen 22 helped me by empowering my voice and allowing me to have the validation, push and kickstart to make meaningful change…they value me and it means a lot.

ZeZe Sohawan, Founder of Emotion Dysregulation in Autism 

Connecting Businesses & local charities

Skilled Volunteers

There are some fantastic businesses that call the West Midlands home.

All of those Businesses have brilliant people with tonnes of skills and experience. We connect those skilled people with not for profit community groups who need a hand with their marketing, budgeting, bid writing – you name it! 

So why not use your volunteering day to really make a difference to your community.

The United By 2022 charity is fantastic I love the work that it does and it wasn’t a difficult decision to give up a day of my weekend to come and help you…I think it’s important Businesses give back to the community - we have skills, influence, experience and money, so it’s very important we get involved and do what we can. I thoroughly enjoyed being a skilled volunteer, I wish I’d done it before!

Stuart Flint, Partner, Fisher German 