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Corporate Volunteering.

What is it?

Corporate volunteering, also known as Employer-Supported Volunteering (ESV), is when businesses offer their employees paid time off from their regular duties to take part in volunteering activities.


Some companies organise group volunteering events for their staff, while others encourage more flexible, ongoing arrangements—such as allowing employees to volunteer for short periods each week, like half an hour at a time.

Aviva staff volunteering on outdoor project

Why Get Involved?

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.

Roles suitable for corporate volunteers

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Sue Ryder Swaffham Retail Volunteer Customer Service, Till & Sort Room

Organisation role · Flexible hours

Sue Ryder Swaffham Retail Volunteer Customer Service, Till & Sort Room

Join Sue Ryder Swaffham as a retail volunteer and help raise vital funds, support your community, build confidence, and gain retail skills.

Posted by Sue Ryder
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Session ride volunteer (“Bike Buddy”)

Organisation role · Flexible hours

Halesworth

Session ride volunteer (“Bike Buddy”)

Ride volunteers focus on giving individuals the skills, knowledge, & confidence to enjoy an organised session & encourages the client with benefits from cycling

Posted by Bike Active North Suffolk
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Charity Secretary

Organisation role · Flexible hours · Starting from 8 Jul 2026

From home

Charity Secretary

Crucial and varied role suiting someone who is highly organised, is an excellent communicator and who is looking for a flexible role to make a difference

Posted by Bike Active North Suffolk
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Rethink corporate volunteering.

It doesn't have to be done in a day.

Rather than offering all your employees volunteering days together, have you considered introducing volunteering throughout the year? This could amount to just 30 minutes a week for some of your staff! Read our Blog post here


This option is possible with many Trustee roles and also opportunities 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. 

Visit Age UK Norfolk

Support from Get InVOLved Norfolk

How we can help

The Get InVOLved Norfolk platform makes it simple for you and your employees to discover volunteering opportunities and track their impact all through your organisation’s dedicated page.


Getting started is easy:


Just register, then create a page for your organisation. Once your page is approved, you can add teams and individual members.

From there, everyone in your organisation can browse and apply for roles individually or as a group, as well as log their volunteering hours.


All logged activity is visible via your organisation’s dashboard, giving you a clear view of the difference your teams and your organisation as a whole are making in the local community.


You can also create private volunteering events, visible only to your organisation. Plus, we’ll recommend opportunities directly to your dashboard to help keep your teams engaged.

Watch our demo here
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Trustee and Board roles

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Charity Secretary

Organisation role · Flexible hours · Starting from 8 Jul 2026

From home

Charity Secretary

Crucial and varied role suiting someone who is highly organised, is an excellent communicator and who is looking for a flexible role to make a difference

Posted by Bike Active North Suffolk
Treasurer

Organisation role · Flexible hours

Norwich

Treasurer

We are a small independent charity run primarily by volunteers. We are seeking a Treasurer with suitable financial monitoring and control experience.

Posted by RAF Air Defence Radar Museum
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Community Co-ordinator

Organisation role · Flexible hours

Flexible location

Community Co-ordinator

We need someone to be a friendly face of the village hall, show round prospective new bookings & confirm bookings using basic software.

Posted by Margaret Harker Hall & Blofield Memorial Grounds
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News

Four people sit near a table discussing ideas - images float above their heads as they consider things; a light bulb, some documents, a tick in a box.

Could you help shape the necessary changes in Inclusive Volunteering?

Inclusive Volunteering Learning Community On the back of the recent Report and Recommendations for Inclusive Volunteering: Volunteering For Health Summary and the subsequent conversations at the webinar, we're inviting those with professional or lived experience of Health Inequalities and Volunteering to an Inclusive Volunteering Learning Community so we can better develop the inclusive volunteering practice that volunteers with health inequalities tell us they need. The group will be peer led & meet for an hour every couple of months to help co-produce the learning or support we need. Both lived and professional experience will be central to us moving forward. Our aim is to address the Key Recommendations from the Report in the link above; identifying what we need support with and where we might have resources (i.e. toolkits, templates, guides etc) that can be shared with each other - generating some practical solutions for inclusive volunteering. We might look at training needs, clear descriptors/inclusive comms, support resources, social bonding, co-produced volunteering or anything else you find relevant. A person-centred approach will mean different types of materials/resources for different people and their support needs. Please contact me to join us or to ask further questions: Cata.Parrish@voluntarynorfolk.org.uk
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How can volunteering be more inclusive?

How can volunteering be more inclusive? As part of the national and regional Volunteering for Health programme, Norfolk & Waveney CICs and charities are working with people with health inequalities to explore and address their barriers and enablers to volunteering, during 2025-26. We are working specifically with neuro divergent people including those with Learning Disabilities, autism and other types of neuro-diversity, as well as young people with care experience. We've been helping to co-produce supported volunteering and volunteering-readiness projects with participants and organisations to really understand what helps them to volunteer, and what stops them. We gathered the learning from the first round of projects and share the Key Findings below. We also begin to discuss how we can best develop good inclusive volunteering during a webinar, linked below. Read our latest Reports and Recommendations on Inclusive Volunteering at : Get InVOLved Innovation Fund | Get Involved Skills Watch the webinar where we launched the Recommendations and shared the learning about making volunteering more inclusive from the Volunteering for Health Innovations projects in Norfolk & Waveney: https://youtu.be/32kS8LOc5Hg Read about the specially commissioned Community Voices project which documents the conversations with young people from care and their communities, and their thoughts on volunteering: Get InVOLved Innovation Fund | Get Involved Skills Coming Up....what happens now? How do we respond, as the VCFSE and Health Sectors to the Recommendations that people with Health Inequalities have told us?
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Getting yourself Work and Volunteering Ready

Getting Work and Volunteering Ready: Building Confidence and Learning Skills across Norfolk and Suffolk

If you feel like you could do with increasing your employability and volunteering skills, and you're autistic, Learning Disabled or otherwise neuro-divergent, Headway Suffolk & Norfolk have something for you. As one of the Get Involved Innovations Fund projects, Headway Suffolk and Norfolk are offering group and1:1 support to get you in to volunteering roles where you can increase your skills and experience. This experience is often really helpful when applying for paid employment. Headway are offering help with Improving your skills and confidence, understanding your strengths CV writing and applications Interview preparation Matching you with voluntary roles. Please contact Helen at helenmfairweather@headwaysuffolk.org.uk for further information about days, times and anything else you may want to know.
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Norfolk Community Foundation - Skills Exchange

Partnering businesses with charities

Norfolk Community Foundation coordinates a network of local businesses committed to making a difference by providing free advice and support to the voluntary and not-for-profit sector. The Good for Good Skills Exchange, formerly known as Norfolk ProHelp, includes one-off help, mentoring and strategic support. Businesses interested in supporting this initiative can find out more here.

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