Employers supported volunteering

How Can We Help?

• We can help set up programmes for employer-supported volunteering.
• Such programmes demonstrate corporate social responsibility and raise the organisations and national local profile.
• They are known to increase staff satisfaction, loyalty and retention.
• They provide team-building experience and other valuable training at minimal cost.
• They also produce the tangible, worthwhile outcomes lacked by many training activities.

Does that sound good? If so, contact us to find out more about the possibilities.

Benefits for Employers and the Community

When you start a team-building exercise or management training scheme, do you think about benefits?

We don’t mean the obvious ones, of course you want better teams, more effective managers, but the subsidiary benefits.

Perhaps that’s because, for many training programmes, there aren’t any, apart from a few embarrassing photographs.

Consider the following...

Would you:

1. challenge a team to create or improve a children’s play area, or
2. see how cold, wet and confused they get outward bound in North Wales?

Would you:

1. ask a group to put on a special event for disabled or disadvantaged people, or
2. run one of the usual Treasure Hunt challenges?

Would you:

1. choose a team to redecorate a room in a day centre for elderly people, or
2. get the umpteenth solution to that over-simplified business simulation game that’s not quite like real life?

Which choices do you prefer - 1 or 2?

Whatever your choice, you get some benefit, your teams and managers will learn about themselves and their colleagues and they might also have a good time (even cold and wet in North Wales).

But subsidiary benefits in the real world? - No contest!

And we can even do the embarrassing photographs, if you really want. What we can promise is that everyone will be smiling!

A recent example of Employers supported volunteering

The challenge: Building a sensory garden for Princes Risborough School.

A teacher from the School contacted us with a suggestion to turn a poorly used piece of land adjacent to the school into a ‘sensory garden’ intended to give young pupils a visually stimulating space for recreational purposes. A team from The Royal Bank of Scotland moved in and with the help and support of pupils and teachers from the school spend several weekends hard at work. Members of the team used the opportunity to get to know one-another better and discovered the enjoyment of creating the garden from scratch for the benefit of the community. Many discovered new skills and all went back to their ‘day jobs’ refreshed and re-invigorated.

The garden is used every day and the school and its pupils have benefited from the co-operation of the corporate and charity sectors. Please contact us on if you are looking for an opportunity to help your community or have a project in mind.