Corporate Volunteering.

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.

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.

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!

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. 

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.