Voluntree is a skill- and knowledge-sharing platform with a difference. Totally transparent, directly democratic, and free to use, Voluntree will enable you to help your community, build your reputation and learn some brand new skills! Built on a commitment to the idea that social exchange has real material value, Voluntree is a social experiment platform that challenges the conventional capitalist business structures. Our team and platform volunteers have no strict working hours, they choose when and how much they want to work, and each have an equal opportunity to contribute to the evolution of the platform. The end goal of this project is to find out whether we can create a community-led platform where participants are happy to be awarded in oxytocin instead of money and have a full, direct and democratic control over their local community budget.
Volunteers are an integral part of the platform: they're the ones that volunteer their skills and time to the community.
As a volunteer, you can:
Users are the main beneficiaries of the platform: they're the ones receiving the support, knowledge and skills, totally free.
As a user you can:
Sponsors are community members and companies that support the work of volunteers through regular monthly donations of as little as £1.
As a sponsor you can:
We've divided up the volunteering into workshop categories, but feel free to share any knowledge or skills that you have!
The idea was born from a dream of direct democracy: a world where people have more trust in each other and feel more in control of their immediate environment; A place where people help each other, by simply sharing what we already know without compromising our social growth.
The specification for the Minimum Viable Product is complete and we have started building it! The MVP platform only has volunteers and users; the sponsors will be added in the full version.
We are expecting to launch the MVP version of the application in Bristol (UK) and Nis (Serbia)!
After the MVP launch we'll just keep working until the full platform version is up and running.
We are a group of full-time employed young professionals. Our work on this platform happens in our free time and is totally voluntary. It is our dream that the platform itself is run by part-time volunteers just like the volunteers running workshops on the platform.
We are looking to expand our small team with motivated and like-minded people from as many different backgrounds as possible. If this is you, just let us know by filling out the form below, and we'll be in touch as soon as possible!
If, on the other hand, you would like to register an interest in running a workshop once the platform development is complete, then let us know by filling out this form instead. We'll be in touch as soon as the platform is launched!