About us

We help people who are excluded from society to participate in volunteering and build a more positive future for themselves.

All of our clients can be described as facing multiple disadvantage. We define this as ‘two or more issues affecting physical, mental, social or financial wellbeing’.

We don’t have a time limit for our support; we work flexibly to meet the individual needs of every person we help.

Step Together Volunteering was set up in 1994, originally named World Wide Volunteering for Young People. We initially worked with schools to encourage and inspire young people to engage in volunteering. Between 1994 and 2021, we worked with more than 1,000 schools, introducing volunteering to over 200,000 young people.

In 2008, we expanded our focus to support a wider range of vulnerable people facing social exclusion, increasing our reach to three client groups: Young People, The Armed Forces Community, and our Criminal Justice Programme.

In 2016, we changed our name to Step Together Volunteering, to better reflect the organisation as it is today.