Our Reach Membership Services During the year, we grew our membership to 531 local organisations. Going forward we will be reviewing our membership offer and 531 will work on improving our services to our membership organisations membership. VAI and its Volunteer Centre have 6,310 followers on Twitter. We have also increased our Instagram followers by 20% to 629 from the previous year. 6,310 Newsgroup twitter followers The VAI Newsgroup increased from the previous year to 675 local groups/ organisations. This is a platform where the shared local news about their services in Islington. Upon request, we also disseminated 675 news and information from our council and newsgroup subscribers public health colleagues. In 2021-22, 532 news emails were shared using this platform. 16 Annual and Impact Report 21/22