employer supported volunteering

other ways we can help

The team at Volunteer Centre Southwark is happy to offer guidance and advice about how your business can start to involves its employees in volunteering. In addition to offering team challenges and professional skills brokerage, we can do this in a number of ways:

• Offering advice on best practice
• Helping you develop a volunteering policy
• Attending Volunteering Fairs
• Developing specific partnerships between your business and a voluntary organisation

Other Sources of Information

Information from Volunteering England - http://www.volunteering.org.uk/WhatWeDo/Projects+and+initiatives/Employer+Supported+Volunteering/

London Benchmarking Group - Information and advice on evaluating and reporting a company’s CCI/ CSR programme http://www.lbg-online.net/

Investing in Volunteers for Employers is the UK award recognising commitment to best practice in employer supported volunteering. It is designed for any size of company that supports its employees to volunteer and is flexible enough to recognise the full range of volunteering that may be offered by an employer - http://iive.investinginvolunteers.org.uk/