Employer Supported Volunteering
for Community Groups

The Business Volunteers project is well known for running team challenges through out Southwark. From a community group’s point of view, the biggest benefit to you is that our services are FREE! A Team Challenge involves a team of business volunteers working together to achieve a specific project for a community group, usually within one working day. These challenges ensure that community organisations can have practical projects fulfilled that they are unable to fund or achieve without a company’s support. We will work with you to develop and define an opportunity (not something you would need a qualified professional contractor to complete), find a company whose staff can complete the challenge, manage the day and provide a post challenge evaluation. We will also encourage the company to develop an on-going relationship with you.

For an idea of the type of challenges we have done in the past see our case studies.

If you are a community group based in Southwark, and feel you would like to work with us on a team challenge for between 10-40 individuals, please contact the Business Volunteers project on 020 7403 2936.

Training
Business Volunteers is able to provide training to community groups thinking of working with businesses and regularly run a session on Why Work With Businesses and How to Do It. For more information e-mail Samantha Stotland or call (020) 7403 2936.

Advice and Guidance
Advice and guidance is also provided to community groups wanting to offer individual employees volunteering opportunities – perhaps using their professional skills, such as website design or business mentoring. For more information please e-mail us.