Terms of use
Doing Good Leeds platform, Version 1.2, October 2026
Welcome! These are the terms you agree to respect and abide by while using this website.
If there’s anything you don’t agree with, please don’t use the platform. You can always get in touch to voice any concerns you may have.
On this page we explain how you can use the Doing Good Leeds platform ‘the platform’, which includes this websites, and the user account area. The rules about what you should and shouldn’t do are here to keep things safe, fair and welcoming for everyone.
If there’s anything you don’t agree with, please don’t use the platform. You can always get in touch to voice any concerns you may have.
On this page we explain how you can use the Doing Good Leeds platform ‘the platform’, which includes this websites, and the user account area. The rules about what you should and shouldn’t do are here to keep things safe, fair and welcoming for everyone.
Who we are
The Doing Good Leeds Partnership is delivered by Voluntary Action Leeds, Forum Central and Leeds Older People’s Forum. There is a joint communications team which manages the the platform and single point of access day to day. In these terms, ‘we’ and ‘us’ mean:
Voluntary Action Leeds, registered charity number 225863 and a company limited by guarantee in England and Wales number 555150.
Address: Stringer House, 34 Lupton Street, Hunslet, Leeds, LS14
Volition Leeds (operating as Forum Central), registered charity number 1092126 and company limited by guarantee in England and Wales number 04046674.
Address: Suite E1, Joseph’s Well, Hanover Lane, Leeds, LS31AB
Leeds Older People Forum, registered charity number 1191030 and company number CE023712.
Address: Suite E1, Joseph’s Well, Hanover Lane, Leeds, LS31AB
Voluntary Action Leeds, registered charity number 225863 and a company limited by guarantee in England and Wales number 555150.
Address: Stringer House, 34 Lupton Street, Hunslet, Leeds, LS14
Volition Leeds (operating as Forum Central), registered charity number 1092126 and company limited by guarantee in England and Wales number 04046674.
Address: Suite E1, Joseph’s Well, Hanover Lane, Leeds, LS31AB
Leeds Older People Forum, registered charity number 1191030 and company number CE023712.
Address: Suite E1, Joseph’s Well, Hanover Lane, Leeds, LS31AB
What you can do here
The platform helps third sector organisations in Leeds find information, advice and support. It also helps people find third sector organisations in Leeds, their news, events, spaces to hire, training courses and volunteering opportunities. You can:
- search for volunteering opportunities and advertise volunteer roles,
- search for training and advertise training courses,
- view and add Leeds third sector news and events,
- see a feed of jobs from the Voluntary Action Leeds website,
- find third sector organisations in our directory,
- sign up for a regular round up of the news, event and training posts added to the website,
- find information about our networks and forums,
- find information and support to start and manage a group or organisation.
Using the platform
We want the platform to be a useful and inclusive place. Please:
- give us accurate information,
- follow the law and these terms,
- treat other people with respect.
Please don’t:
- post anything false, misleading, offensive, discriminatory or illegal,
- use the platform to harass or harm others,
- share other people’s personal information without their permission,
- advertise things that aren’t connected to the third sector, volunteering or jobs in Leeds,
- try to break into the platform, interfere with how it works or collect data from it using automated tools,
- pretend to be another person or organisation, or pretend to work or be connected to an organisation that you are not.
Your account
You’ll usually need an account to post content or apply for opportunities. To keep your account safe please:
- keep your login details private,
- remember, you are responsible for everything done through your account,
- tell us straight away if you think someone else has accessed your account.
Sharing your content
We love to share what you’re up to.
You can post your organisational news, events, training courses you run or are coordinating, volunteer roles, and list your organisational details and spaces you advertise for hire. When you post:
You can post your organisational news, events, training courses you run or are coordinating, volunteer roles, and list your organisational details and spaces you advertise for hire. When you post:
- you are responsible for what you share, and you must have the right to share it, including images,
- you give us permission to show, store and promote your content on our websites, via emails and on social media,
- please keep your listings accurate and up to date, including removal of roles once they’re filled, events and training once they’re fully booked. Event listings will automatically be removed after the end date.
This covers anything you post. We may suspend or close an account if someone breaks these terms.
We may check, edit, refuse or remove content at any time, including if it breaks these terms. We will always try to explain way, but this is not an obligation and we reserve the right to withdraw content without giving a reason.
Jobs listings are managed by Voluntary Action Leeds and are covered by their terms of use and privacy policy.
We may check, edit, refuse or remove content at any time, including if it breaks these terms. We will always try to explain way, but this is not an obligation and we reserve the right to withdraw content without giving a reason.
Jobs listings are managed by Voluntary Action Leeds and are covered by their terms of use and privacy policy.
Advertising volunteer roles
Volunteering listings are managed through the BeCollective platform, completely free of charge. If you advertise volunteer roles, you are responsible for:
- recruiting volunteers fairly and safely,
- making any checks the role needs, such as Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks,
- having safeguarding policies and procedures in place,
- having suitable insurance that covers your volunteers,
- following the law, including health and safety and equality law.
We approve the organisations that can advertise roles on the volunteering platform but we don’t check the details of the roles advertised. We can’t guarantee that any role is suitable or safe. Please use your own judgement when you apply, and tell us if you have a concern.
Information and advice
We work hard to keep our information accurate and up to date. But it is general guidance only, not legal, financial or professional advice. Please get specialist advice before you make important decisions, for example about your legal structure, finances or employing people.
Links to other websites
We link to other websites to help you find what you need.
We will only link to websites that we think are relevant and reputable, however, we don’t control the content on externally linked sites so we can’t be responsible for their content or what they do with your information. While we approve all content that is submitted to appear as news, events and training items we may not be able to check all external links in posts. Always use devices which has up to date security software running to protect against malicious links.
We will only link to websites that we think are relevant and reputable, however, we don’t control the content on externally linked sites so we can’t be responsible for their content or what they do with your information. While we approve all content that is submitted to appear as news, events and training items we may not be able to check all external links in posts. Always use devices which has up to date security software running to protect against malicious links.
Our content
We own or have permission to use the content we create, including text, logos, designs and the Doing Good Leeds name.
You’re welcome to use our content for your own personal use.
You are welcome to use our content organisationally where it contributes to our aims, for example, sharing links to posts on our platform. If you copy information from our website verbatim you must credit Doing Good Leeds and/or the member or partner organisation that has created the content.
You must not copy, sell or change it without our permission.
You’re welcome to use our content for your own personal use.
You are welcome to use our content organisationally where it contributes to our aims, for example, sharing links to posts on our platform. If you copy information from our website verbatim you must credit Doing Good Leeds and/or the member or partner organisation that has created the content.
You must not copy, sell or change it without our permission.
Your personal information
Your personal privacy is important to us. We look after your information as in our Privacy Policy which explains how we collect, store, manage, process and protect your personal information. Our Cookies Policy explains how we use cookies.
Keeping the platform running
We do our best to keep the platform running smoothly, but we can’t promise it will always be available or free from errors. We may sometimes change, pause or remove parts of it, for example for maintenance.
Where our responsibility ends
We can’t be responsible for:
- content that other people post,
- the actions of organisations, employers or volunteers you meet through the platform,
- any loss that comes from relying on information on the platform,
- problems caused by things outside our control.
Nothing in these terms limits our responsibility for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything else the law doesn’t allow us to limit.
Changes to these terms
We may update these terms from time to time. We’ll post the new version on this page with a new date. If you keep using the platform after that, you accept the changes.
Something wrong?
If you spot content that breaks these terms, get in touch by emailing hello@doinggoodleeds.org.uk.
If you’d like to make a complaint, take a look at our compliments and complaints policy for all the details of how to go about that and how it will be handled.
If you’d like to make a complaint, take a look at our compliments and complaints policy for all the details of how to go about that and how it will be handled.
Contact us
Doing Good Leeds Partnership
By email: hello@doinggoodleeds.org.uk
By phone: 0113 481 0187
By post to either of our offices:
Stringer House, 34 Lupton Street, Hunslet, Leeds, LS10 2QW
Suite E1, Joseph’s Well, Hanover Lane, Leeds, LS3 1AB
By email: hello@doinggoodleeds.org.uk
By phone: 0113 481 0187
By post to either of our offices:
Stringer House, 34 Lupton Street, Hunslet, Leeds, LS10 2QW
Suite E1, Joseph’s Well, Hanover Lane, Leeds, LS3 1AB
