Step Together Volunteering was founded 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.
Roger Potter - Founder
Our founder and life time president, Roger Potter, was Director of World Wide Volunteering until 2006 and was a member of the UK National Task Force for the European Voluntary Service scheme. He is currently the Chairman of the Britain-Nepal Society. His early career was spent in secondary education and he was principal of a large London Sixth Form College.
''If you can find the spark, that you can turn into a flame, then that is the reward for what you are doing.'' - Roger Potter on Step Together Volunteering's purpose.
Roger Potter shares the story of how Step Together Volunteering came to be below...