24/12/2025
A Thank You to Our Volunteers as 2025 becomes 2026!
As we come to the close of 2025, we want to pause and say a sincere thank you to every volunteer who has given their time, care, and belief to knus this year.
This year has been one of real momentum and meaningful progress.
What we’ve achieved together in 2025:
We are now entering beta testing of the new knus app, available on Apple and Android. The app brings together chat, telephone, and video support in one place, with easy booking for service users and simple scheduling for volunteers. We’re aiming for a full launch at the end of January, following successful beta testing - and we’re calling out to volunteers and members of the public who would like to be part of the beta.
We successfully completed two accelerators: the Hatch Enterprise Accelerator and the School of Social Entrepreneurs Accelerator - strengthening our foundations and sharpening our impact.
We secured a place on Hatch Enterprise’s “Sales to Scale” UBS Deep Dive programme, supported by UBS Bank, starting early January 2026. We’re beginning the new year exactly as we mean to go on.
We onboarded 210 new volunteers across peer support and admin roles, alongside many passionate new ambassadors helping spread the knus mission.
We enhanced our training and social platforms, bringing more in-house capability through grant funding and fundraising efforts.
Looking ahead to 2026, our focus is clear:
Launching the app after final bug-crunching
Enhancing volunteer perks
Growing our fundraising initiatives
Building closer business partnerships to widen access to knus services for everyone who needs them
None of this would be possible without you.
Thank you for your contributions, patience, kindness, and dedication - whether you supported someone directly, helped behind the scenes, tested ideas, or simply showed up when it mattered.
A reminder of something truly special about knus:
We are completely bootstrapped. No one at knus is paid - every role is powered solely by volunteers. What you have helped build exists solely because people choose to give their time, energy, and heart to support others.
You are the reason knus exists.
You are the reason it’s growing.
And you are the reason we’re stepping into 2026 with hope and confidence.
With gratitude,
The knus Team
Full press release: https://pressat.co.uk/releases/knus-marks-the-end-of-2025-by-thanking-volunteers-after-a-year-of-growth-5da64a722d4d31e17b66392def04246a/
