Corporate Volunteering.
What is it?
What is it?
Corporate volunteering, also called Employer-supported volunteering, or ESV, is where businesses provide paid time off their usual duties to volunteer.
Some businesses organise group activities for their staff or encourage staff to take on more regular arrangements, spreading their volunteering hours over perhaps half an hour a week.
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.
Support from Get InVOLved Norfolk
How we can help
How we can help
The Get InVOLved Norfolk platform makes it easier for you and your employees to find roles and for you to track their impact via your organisation's main page.
The first step is to register. You will then be able to create a page for your organisation.
Once your page is created and approved, you can add teams and individuals. All members of your organisation can search and apply for roles as well as log volunteering hours.
All logged volunteering activity can be tracked via your organisation's dashboard, making it easier to monitor the impact the teams and the organisation as a whole are having on your local community.
You could also create a private volunteering event, visible to only your organisation and we will recommend opportunities, straight to your dashboard!
Already offer your employees paid time off to volunteer?
That's great!
That's great!
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 - Skills Exchange
Partnering businesses with charities
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.
Roles suitable for groups and teams
Pit Crew Volunteer
The Pit Crew Volunteer will assist the Pit Stop Coordinator to set up and close down our Pit Stop, complete some basic admin, and chat to the usersPosted by MensCraft
Archiving for the future
To photograph the museum’s collection, describe and recording all the museum’s assetsPosted by Norfolk Tank MuseumBe part of the team that helps make our events run smoothly
Event Stewards are a key to the smooth running of events the Norfolk Tank Museum and offer you an opportunity to be part of the team & get to see the collectionPosted by Norfolk Tank MuseumRoles suitable for corporate volunteers
Three Horseshoes Beer Festival - Volunteer
We are being supported by the Three Horseshoes Pub via their beer festival. We are looking to have volunteers help at the event.Posted by The Benjamin Foundation
Events/Fundraising Volunteers
Events and Fundraising Volunteers needed to support our amazing Fundraising Team out and about at events Posted by Norfolk and Waveney MindPit Crew Volunteer
The Pit Crew Volunteer will assist the Pit Stop Coordinator to set up and close down our Pit Stop, complete some basic admin, and chat to the usersPosted by MensCraftTrustee and Board roles
Non-Executive Director
Be part of a new and growing organisation exclusively for families with only one child. Have your say on an executive level. Posted by The Only Child Club
Bookkeeper Trustee
When making any decision or acting in relation to a charity, a trustee must be guided by the overarching principle to act in the interests of the charity.Posted by Anteros Arts Foundation
Assistant Scout Leader
An Assistant Scout Leader/s is needed to join our team and work with our busy Horsford Scout Group who meet every Thursday evening. Posted by 1st Horsford & St.Faiths Scout GroupNews
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