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Celebrate your people’s achievements with Digital Badges!
Jigna Vyas Gosal, Development Worker Published on: July 28, 2025
Support Cambridgeshire are excited to introduce digital badges for local community groups and charities to recognise the awesome skills and achievements of their learners, beneficiaries and volunteers.
Whether it’s through training, development programmes, or other milestones, individuals will be able to earn badges that showcase what they’ve learned. These badges aren’t just for show—they can be added to LinkedIn, shared on social media, or highlighted to employers to boost the earner’s professional profile.
Why earn a Support Cambridgeshire Digital Badge?
Support Cambridgeshire’s Digital Badges reflect key skills that are highly valued by employers across the voluntary sector—supported by robust data from Lightcast. These badges provide clear, credible evidence that the recipient possesses the practical, transferable skills needed in the current job market. And they aren’t limited to voluntary roles—the competencies they showcase are relevant across a wide range of industries, including paid employment.
How to award an individual with a Support Cambridgeshire Digital Badge
Support Cambridgeshire will provide a direct link or QR code for each badge. Once a learner, volunteer, or beneficiary meets the criteria, this link can be shared with them to claim their badge in just a few clicks. All the technical work has been handled—your role is simply to recognise, acknowledge and celebrate achievement.
How to become a Trusted Badge Provider
Local community groups and charities can also apply for their own Trusted Badge Issuer from Support Cambridgeshire, making it even easier for their learners, beneficiaries and volunteers to be awarded their individual Digital Badges.
GET Group members and other voluntary sector organisations interested in issuing badges can simply contact: enquiries@cambridgecvs.org.uk to request a brief questionnaire. From there, becoming a Trusted Badge Issuer is straightforward.
Who’s behind the Support Cambridgeshire Digital Badges?
This initiative is a collaboration between Support Cambridgeshire, The GET Group, and the Region of Learning.
Support Cambridgeshire is a voluntary sector infrastructure organisation (formerly Hunts Forum and in the process of merging with CCVS). We champion and support community and voluntary groups, and promote volunteering across Cambridge City, South Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire and Fenland.
The GET Group — an acronym for Guidance, Employment and Training was formed in 1989, with a mission to provide an ‘umbrella’ Infrastructure Group for the adult skills not-for-profit sector of Cambridgeshire. Anyone who works with or volunteers with a group or organisation who is interested in employment, learning and skills across the county is welcome to attend the GET Group network meetings. The GET Group is now coordinated and administered by Support Cambridgeshire.
In partnership with the Region of Learning, The GET Group and Support Cambridgeshire is helping to empower the voluntary sector to support their beneficiaries, learners and volunteers to recognise their achievements and work. Our shared goal is to champion digital badges, as a way to evidence an individual’s skills.
Together, we are working to ensure individuals across the county receive meaningful recognition for their learning, growth, and contributions—whether through volunteering, employment, or skills development.
By embracing these digital badges, voluntary sector organisations not only empower individuals but also strengthen the visibility and value of the voluntary sector, in supporting individuals on their journey to gain the skills needed to get suitable voluntary work, work experience and find paid employment.
How to achieve a Support Cambridgeshire Digital Badge
Summary
Earners of this badge have demonstrated initiative and led projects from conception to completion. It highlights the leader’s ability to motivate teams, manage resources, and ensure successful project outcomes. Earning this badge demonstrates competence in both leadership and project management.
Criteria
The earner has demonstrated leadership skills by guiding and motivating teams towards achieving project goals. Testimonials or reviews from team members or stakeholders on leadership and project management skills.
The earner has taken the initiative to solve problems, implement solutions, and drive progress. Provided documentation of a completed project, including project plan, timeline, and outcomes.
The earner has effectively managed project timelines, resources, and budgets and provided documentation as proof of project management.
Facilitates communication within the team and stakeholders.
Ensures the project is delivered on time and meets predefined objectives. Presentation or report detailing leadership actions and outcomes from a specific project.
Summary
Earners of this badge recognise the ability to communicate effectively and efficiently in professional settings. Earning this badge demonstrates that an individual can express ideas clearly, listen actively, and adapt their communication approach to various contexts, fostering understanding and collaboration.
Criteria
Earner has demonstrated effective written, verbal, and non-verbal communication skills.
Earner has clearly conveyed information in a variety of formats (emails, reports, presentations, meetings).
Earner actively listens and provides constructive feedback.
Earner has been able to adapt communication style to different audiences and situations.
Earner has participated in discussions, promoting clarity and understanding.
Summary
Earners of this badge have achieved a level of proficiency in administrative and clerical functions, highlighting organisational skills, attention to detail, and efficient task management. It shows the earner has the ability to contribute to a well-run office environment and support team operations.
Criteria
The earner has efficiently managed tasks such as scheduling, record-keeping, filing, and office organisation.
The earner has demonstrated proficiency with office software and tools (e.g. word processors, spreadsheets, databases).
The earner has maintained accurate records and documentation.
The earner has managed time effectively to prioritise tasks and meet deadlines.
The earner has responded to inquiries and requests in a timely and professional manner.
Summary
Earners of this badge will have successfully participated in a meeting with CCVS Volunteering for All introducing them to the local voluntary sector, the benefits of volunteering, and signposting them to ways to get involved in volunteering.
Criteria
Earner has attended a session to learn more about the benefits of volunteering and how it could improve employability and opportunities. They have used organisational skills to enable their attendance and shown confidence in being able to bring value to others through their interest in volunteering.
Earner has had the opportunity to use their communication and research skills to build on their understanding of volunteering and access information that will support them in their volunteering journey.
Earner has had the opportunity to build on their knowledge and understanding of how to fill application forms, including how to identify and apply experience, the value of transferable skills to support their application, and the importance of motivation. They have been encouraged to consider the purpose of interviews and inductions, and how to prepare and plan for them.
Summary
Groups that have earned this badge have been approved by Support Cambridgeshire to issue our digital badges.
Criteria
Groups can apply for this badge by meeting the following criteria:
They provide equal access for individuals to earn the individual Support Cambridgeshire Digital Badges by providing the following evidence:
– Copy of the group’s constitution
– An example of how the group support individuals to meet the individual badge criteria. This could be a testimonial, case study, recent trustee, impact or funders report or their annual review.
– If the group are registered with a statutory authority (e.g. Charities Commission or Companies House etc.) can they confirm the following:
- Who regulates them?
- Provide evidence that the group is compliant with the regulators’ registration requirements.




