1.4 Million Volunteers & Growing

Volunteering & Community Response

GoodSAM connects people in need with those who can help, fast. Using advanced geolocation, we match urgent and scheduled requests to nearby volunteers with the right skills.

Join GoodSAM and help your community

You can register directly with GoodSAM or, if you belong to an organisation already on GoodSAM, register under them as your governing body.

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Cardiac Responders

If you're trained in CPR, register here and upload your certification or proof of identity. Not trained yet? Register and complete the Resuscitation Council online training.

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Other Response Skills

There are many other opportunities to help. Once logged in, go to the Me Tab → Skills to select skills you already have and read the guides for any you'd like to add.

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Why Join?

Help save lives and support your community. Flexible volunteering opportunities that fit around your schedule. Guides provided for new skills - no experience necessary.

GoodSAM Community
Resilience Skills

We're excited to introduce Community Resilience Skills - practical knowledge guides designed to help GoodSAM responders support their neighbours during two of the most common and serious weather emergencies facing UK communities: flooding and excessive heat.

These guides are available to all registered GoodSAM responders, completely free. Read them at your own pace, whenever suits you - and be ready to make a real difference on your street when it matters most.

📱 How to access your Community Resilience Skills

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Open the GoodSAM app on your device
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Tap the Me Tab at the bottom of the screen
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Select Skills from the menu
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Choose a Community Resilience skill and read the guide at your own pace
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To access these guides in the app: Me Tab Skills Community Resilience   Read the guide and you're ready to support your neighbours. No prior experience required.

🌊 Community Resilience Skill

Helping Neighbours in Flood Situations

Practical guidance on protecting homes, warning neighbours and keeping your street safe when floodwater threatens.

  • Understanding UK flood warning levels and what to do at each stage
  • How to warn neighbours safely - starting with the most vulnerable
  • Building sandbag barriers correctly using Environment Agency guidance
  • Electricity, gas and water safety advice to pass on to residents
  • When to move upstairs, what to take, and when to evacuate
  • Personal protective equipment and health & hygiene after flooding
Read the Flood Knowledge Module
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Helping Neighbours in Excessive Heat

How to keep homes cool, check on vulnerable people, recognise heat illness and stay safe if wildfire threatens your area.

  • Understanding the UKHSA Heat-Health Alert system (Green to Red)
  • Keeping a home cool - curtains, loft hatches, damp towels and fans
  • Daily check-in guidance for elderly and vulnerable neighbours
  • Recognising heat cramps, heat exhaustion and heat stroke - and what to do
  • Wildfire awareness: when to shelter in place and when to evacuate
  • Building a go-bag and smoke safety with N95 masks
Read the Heat & Wildfire Knowledge Module

More Community Resilience Skills coming soon.
We'll be adding further guides over time. Your feedback helps us make these as useful as possible - share your thoughts via the GoodSAM app.

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🚜 New Partnership Programme

Farmer Wildfire
Response Programme

A new partnership between GoodSAM, National Farmers Union - helping coordinate farmers who have the right equipment to create firebreaks rapidly in the event of wildfires, protecting land, livestock and communities.

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Farming
National Farmers Union
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The Challenge

Wildfires in rural areas spread fastest across open land. Early intervention with firebreaks - cleared strips that stop fire advancing - is one of the most effective containment tools available, but requires specialised agricultural equipment that fire services don't always have immediately to hand.

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The Solution

Farmers with tractors, ploughs, cultivators and other suitable equipment can be pre-registered on GoodSAM. When a wildfire is reported, the Fire and Rescue Service can rapidly identify and coordinate the nearest registered farmer to assist with firebreak creation under the direction of the incident commander.

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How GoodSAM Helps

GoodSAM's geolocation platform identifies the closest registered farmers to an active incident in real time. Alerts can be sent directly to the farmer's device with location, instructions and fire service contact details - getting the right equipment to the right place, fast.

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Registered farmers always operate under the direct command of the Fire & Rescue Service incident commander. Firebreak work is only carried out when directed by and coordinated with professional firefighters. This is a support and coordination programme - not independent action.

Are you a farmer with suitable equipment?

If you have tractors, ploughs, cultivators or other equipment that could assist with firebreak creation, we'd love to hear from you. Register your interest using the link below - the NFU will be in touch to discuss the programme in more detail.

🚜   Register Your Interest

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A comprehensive volunteer management platform

GoodSAM connects people to both emergency and scheduled volunteering opportunities. Our unique ability to geolocate those in need has powered some of the largest programmes in the world - including managing 800,000 NHS volunteers during COVID-19.

Patient & Equipment Transport

Request community support for transporting patients or delivering essential equipment. Automatically tracks mileage for accurate expense claims and transparency.

Shift & Availability Management

Planned duty periods and availability management, enabling organisations to see who is or will be on-shift and deployable.

Targeted Alerts & Skills Matching

Create custom skills within the platform and link them to knowledge resources. Volunteers qualified in specific skills are automatically alerted to relevant incidents.

Lone Worker Safety

Built-in lone working system protects volunteers during deployments, with instant video location sharing ensuring real-time visibility and safety for every responder.

Evidence & Showcases

Validated Performance: From peer-reviewed research to real-time response metrics, explore the clinical and operational data that makes GoodSAM the gold standard for emergency services.

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Global Case Studies: See how ambulance services, hospitals and healthcare agencies worldwide leverage GoodSAM to enhance clinical outcomes and save lives.

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Get started with a free trial

We are currently offering a 2-month free trial of GoodSAM. Getting started is straightforward:

1 We discuss your use cases and requirements
2 We set up your web-based dashboard
3 We support your implementation to ensure success
Contact us to get started