As part of Acorns three-year volunteering strategy that was launched in April 2025, one of the improvements highlighted was our current volunteer journey. With that and more in mind, we decided to invest in ‘Assemble’, a cloud-based platform designed to help us to efficiently manage our volunteer program.
Our new Volunteer Management System is coming
Our new Volunteer Management System is coming
2nd January 2026
What will Assemble do?
The launch of Assemble in Spring 2026 will speed up and simplify the recruitment and onboarding journey for any new volunteers and enable our volunteer managers to track where on the journey each volunteer is. By automating the referencing and compliance side of things it will save admin time whilst ensuring that we are still adhering to our safer recruitment practices. The safety of the children that we care for is paramount in all decisions that we take, but we also want to make sure that all volunteers, no matter how they support us, are safeguarded whether that be in retail, fundraising, or care.
Down the line Assemble will also help improve communications, organising events and much more. If you are not tech savvy no need to worry, when we do come to rolling our Volunteer Management System out, we will be providing simple to use instructions as well as training to all of our managers.
Updates coming soon
More details will be forthcoming over the next few months, but until then continue volunteering for Acorns and keep up the outstanding work you do!