Corporate Volunteering.
What is it?
What is it?
Corporate volunteering, also called Employer-supported volunteering, or ESV, is where businesses provide paid time off their usual duties to volunteer.
Some businesses organise group activities for their staff or encourage staff to take on more regular arrangements, spreading their volunteering hours over perhaps half an hour a week.
Volunteering gives businesses and their employees the chance to build connections with their local communities and give back to society while working on issues they feel passionate about. They also gain the opportunity to develop key soft skills in areas such as coaching, leadership and organisational abilities. Further benefits have been found to include:
- Improved communication
- Increased confidence
- Team working
- Creativity
- Resilience
- Gaining an overall sense of fulfilment
- Benefits to the local community
Please note. Some charities and voluntary groups may charge a fee to provide an activity for your organisation, this is to cover the time and costs involved to be able to deliver you these opportunities.
If you're interested in introducing a corporate volunteering scheme at your workplace, you can find a few tips in this blog post to get you started.
Support from Get InVOLved Norfolk
How we can help
How we can help
The Get InVOLved Norfolk platform makes it easier for you and your employees to find roles and for you to track their impact via your organisation's main page.
The first step is to register. You will then be able to create a page for your organisation.
Once your page is created and approved, you can add teams and individuals. All members of your organisation can search and apply for roles as well as log volunteering hours.
All logged volunteering activity can be tracked via your organisation's dashboard, making it easier to monitor the impact the teams and the organisation as a whole are having on your local community.
You could also create a private volunteering event, visible to only your organisation and we will recommend opportunities, straight to your dashboard!
Already offer your employees paid time off to volunteer?
That's great to hear!
That's great to hear!
Rather than offering all your employees volunteering days together, have you considered introducing volunteering throughout the year, which could amount to just 30 minutes a week for some of your staff?
This option is possible with roles like Befriending volunteer for Age UK Norfolk - helping prevent older people from feeling lonely and isolated by making a simple friendly call once a week. There's a very easy, quick and straightforward recruitment process and it's a very flexible role.
As an employer, with flexible volunteering options you also have the benefit of not losing multiple members of staff from the floor or office for 2 or 3 full days a year.
Norfolk ProHelp
Partnering businesses with charities
Partnering businesses with charities
Since 2018, Norfolk Community Foundation has worked in partnership with Norfolk ProHelp to build a professional network committed to making a difference in the local community by providing free advice and support to the voluntary and not-for-profit sector.
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Teams needed to help with a renovation project to enhance our education suite and create an inspiring space for students. Perfect for corporate groups. Posted by Norwich City Community Sports FoundationFestive Fundraising Volunteers
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