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Business Volunteers Project

Who We Are

Business Volunteers is an innovative employer supported volunteering (ESV) project, formed through the partnership of the private, public and voluntary sectors. Established in 1999, the Business Volunteers project now has a national reputation for providing meaningful employee volunteering opportunities throughout Southwark. The Business Volunteers project provides an essential needs-led brokerage service for businesses who recognise the connection between the health of their business and the well-being of the community in which they are located.

Business Volunteers works with voluntary and community organisations to develop and provide volunteering opportunities suitable for employee volunteering, to ensure the community benefits and that the employers and the employee volunteers also have their aims met.


Employer supported volunteering (ESV) simply means that an employee's volunteering is actively supported by the volunteer(s)'s employer and can take place during work hours, as opposed to in the volunteer's personal time.