For Business | Employee Volunteering

Benefits to business

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There is plenty of evidence that volunteering is good for employees and good for business, see our Media Center for useful information.

It is important that you know your specific activities make a difference, are good value for money and make good business sense. So we measure this for you. From recent activities we know that:

97% of volunteers said our activities help develop a strong team
95% felt that volunteering had a positive influence on them
76% said it had a positive influence on how they feel about their employer
87% felt that volunteering improved their understanding of issues affecting their community
98% rated enjoyment as excellent or good – volunteering has to be fun!

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Outcomes

The outcomes from volunteering are myriad and always rewarding. From a practical project you can literally see the fruits of your volunteering time in a newly painted building or a newly landscaped garden or cleared pathway. With one to one skills based and coaching and mentoring programmes not only are your employees gaining new skills and qualifications, such as the ILM level 5 in coaching and mentoring, but they are changing the lives of the people they are working with in a real and lasting way.

Outcomes for your employees include:

A sense of achievement at a personal and team level
A greater understanding of their local communities
Increased team working and better working relationships with colleagues
Increased levels of engagement with your organisation
Additional skills and qualifications from short one day activities to 6 month advanced Institute of Learning level 5 qualifications to enhance their employability and mobility within your organisation

Benefits for the whole of your business

We have many years experience to bring in matching the best types of volunteering activity with every group or individual in your organisation. A team building day at a youth centre might be a great activity for your customer service teams to take them away from the phones for a day and allow them to make a difference in their community. For your strategic managers and senior directors you might choose to share their valuable business skills with a local charity and at the same time gain practical experience of coaching and mentoring in the real world with real people and situations, making a vast difference to those people’s lives, enhancing their own skills and knowledge and engendering a feeling of personal achievement.

Client Feedback

“Employee Volunteering has enabled us to engage more employees in volunteering by delivering fantastically organised, well run volunteering days, that meet the needs of our communities and also develop great teams”. -- Helen Ellis, Head of Corporate Responsibility and Community Relations, Prudential UK & Europe

“Employee Volunteering CiC were invaluable to Honda, the community and the employees who have participated in our project. Delivering a cost effective professional programme run by a team of efficient and friendly people. The benefits to us as a company far outweigh the project costs and we are working with them again this year”.

"We were very impressed with the service provided by Employee Volunteering. We found them professional, yet friendly, and their approach enabled us to establish a solid relationship with the company whose staff made such a difference to our project”.

“Partnering with Employee Volunteering for our team volunteering day took the hassle out of organising and running the day which left us able to focus on completing the project, having fun and giving something back to the community”.

You can also expect from us:

End to end management and facilitation of activities
All administration and logistics taken care of
All legal complexities safely managed:
Evaluation of benefits to the business and to the community