Engage Your People, Improve Community Life, Strengthen Your Business.
With 12 years’ experience dedicated to helping companies gain value from volunteering we are well placed to help in a way that is best for you.
We can help you develop, implement and deliver dynamic and rewarding employee volunteering programmes globally, delivered with ease, quality and choice. A great way to help you and your organisation build inclusiveness and colleague engagement.
We report on the impact on the individual, the business and the community and map contributions to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to provide compelling evidence of tangible returns on the community investment.
There are no membership fees or up-front costs; we just help where we are needed.
We are a volunteering partner that is happy to share best practice and embrace change. We welcome new opportunities to help you and your company deliver the greatest value from your engagement, team building and employee volunteering programmes.
We can offer physical team volunteering for teams of 5 to over 1000 colleagues at multiple locations on one day or across the year.
We offer remote virtual volunteering for colleagues from across the globe to collaborate towards a common cause.
And we can provide innovative individual volunteering opportunities for all colleagues from across the business to get involved and make a difference.
Find out how we can help you, your employees and your business with volunteering.
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We support teams of all sizes to take part in practical or skills activities at charities or schools. There are significant team-building benefits for teams working together towards a common goal. There are cross departmental benefits from colleagues working together from across the business.
We will work with you to create a high impact volunteering solution to strengthen your teams and make a positive impact in the community.
We take care of everything so teams can remain focussed on their day to day business.
Some teams cannot always meet face to face but still want to work collaboratively on a remote team volunteering event towards a common goal.
EV has an innovative range of virtual team volunteering activities that enable colleagues from across the world to work together on a volunteering activity.
These can include a Covid-19 charity recovery forum where colleagues can use their everyday skills to brainstorm solutions that help charities recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. Or they can work together on a virtual interview skills programme where colleagues from across the country or world can help young people prepare for a career.
Making volunteering accessible to all colleagues is essential for inclusiveness and colleague engagement. Finding quality high impact volunteering for individuals can be challenging and expensive to manage.
Online volunteering is an accessible way for critical workers, call centre colleagues or anyone that is unable to participate in a team event to get involved.
Our online programmes are align with your corporate strategy and provide a wide range of carefully selected to protect your brand and reputation. Time and impact are recorded and mapped against the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, what’s not to like!
In practice there are three ways that volunteers can make a difference.
Time to step back to look at the big picture is invaluable for any leadership team. To do this with volunteers who apply their professional and everyday skills is priceless.
Our Community Business Forum or Covid-19 Recovery Forum can help volunteers inspire a transformative change without leaving the community team daunted with a to do list that has no prospect of success.
We also offer over 100 online volunteering opportunities where colleagues can get involved with community programmes such as reporting on species numbers to helping identify retina legions that may indicate diabetes.
Spending time inspiring school children or interacting with care sector service users shows that people care; it can make their day just that little bit more special.
It can give key workers some much needed time and gives volunteers an opportunity to learn about the issues affecting their community.
A volunteer can inspire a child towards a successful career, can give someone homeless some hope, or can simply help someone elderly feel a little more cared for. Volunteering with people can take volunteers outside their comfort zone and are extremely rewarding.
There are many opportunities to make a difference in person or remotely through virtual volunteering.
Charities tell us how much they value support maintaining their infrastructure, be it their buildings, inside or out, or their gardens or other outside areas.
Many hands make light work and most charities do not have the time nor funds to maintain their infrastructure to the standard they would like. The practical work we scope for volunteers would simply not get done without their help. It also shows charities that your company cares which can be important for the self-esteem and wellbeing of their service users.
Practical volunteering is a fantastic way to build strong teams whilst making a real difference to people’s lives.
Volunteering had a positive influence on how they feel about their employer
Rated enjoyment as excellent or good – volunteering has to be fun!
Volunteering improved their understanding of issues affecting communities
Volunteering activities helped develop a strong team
Last year we helped over 600 teams to make a difference in over 110 towns and cities across the UK and Ireland.
The scope is enormous and the case studies are aimed to give a snapshot of what is possible.
Contact us to see how we can help.
Action on the Environment is an educational programme that supports children of all ages to build a more sustainable environment. Volunteers use their skills to help young people to challenge the world around them and work towards a more circular economy.
Teams from Lloyds Banking Group have delivered over 50 Covid-19 Charity Recovery workshops to guide community leaders through the Coronavirus pandemic. Time for strategic thinking an innovative solutions is priceless and this is one of the best received virtual team activities in our portfolio.
Individual opportunities from 5 minutes to a full day accessible on a PC or mobile device. Contribute to mapping climate change, helping identify early signs of Diabetes or transcribe historic literature. There is something for everyone.
A team of 100 volunteers completed well organised tasks including laying paths, prepare the land for sowing crops and controlling invasive species. They worked side by side with young people with learning disabilities to support and encourage them towards independent living.
A team from AstraZeneca Global taking part in an interview experience workshop with young people with learning needs. Volunteers from the UK, Sweden and the USA collaborating towards a common purpose. Making a difference.
A unique opportunity to create bespoke volunteering opportunities with a local charity of the year. Charity shop support, fun run marshalling, creating new campaign posters. Endless opportunities to make a difference.
As a Community Interest Company we are committed to delivering measurable impact. Our objective is to maximise the benefits to society and the environment by making it easier for businesses and community groups to work together towards a common aim. We offer the same high quality of volunteering across the United Kingdom and Ireland, and across a broad range of community, conservation or environmental causes.
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