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.
Roles suitable for corporate volunteers
Coram Beanstalk Reading Helper Volunteer
We will train you to go into a local primary school weekly where you will support the same few children each week to help them to grow a love of reading. Posted by Coram Beanstalk
Warehouse Change Day
Looking for corporate groups who would like to come and help us in our yearly warehouse seasonal change over day. Posted by Priscilla Bacon Hospice
Volunteer Mentor for Prison Leavers
We're looking for empathetic, confident people with great listening skills to become mentors for people leaving prison across Norfolk.Posted by CCN MentoringRoles suitable for smaller groups and teams
Marketing Volunteer: Work In Progress Open Mic Nights
We are looking for a new team of volunteers to transform our marketing campaigns for our monthly WIP It Up nights at Epic Studios.Posted by Reflex Theatre
Volunteer Officer/Trustee
Chatterbox produces a talking newspaper for blind and visually impaired people of Norwich. The Volunteer Officer co-ordinates our volunteers and rota.Posted by Chatterbox Norwich Talking Newspaper
Hop To It! Volunteers - Lowestoft & Beccles
Our Hop to it volunteers are an important part of our team who will help ensure the success of Hop to it! 2025, Wild in Art trail.Posted by St Elizabeth HospiceNews
Funding The Future: Diversifying Income for Charities and Social Enterprises.
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Non executive Directors and Trustees - Training and Events
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