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?
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 ProHelp
Partnering businesses with charities
Partnering businesses with charities
Since 2018, Norfolk Community Foundation has worked in partnership with Norfolk ProHelp to build a professional network committed to making a difference in the local community by providing free advice and support to the voluntary and not-for-profit sector.

Roles suitable for corporate volunteers
Event Volunteer
We need to volunteers to support the running of Caister Festival on Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th June 2025Posted by Caister FestivalJoin the GoGoSafari adventure as a volunteer Trail Ranger!
We’re looking for enthusiastic and friendly volunteers to help bring our vibrant sculpture trail to life. Posted by BreakBranch Chair Person - Happisburgh
The RNLI has a network of local fundraising teams organising a wide range of activities and events which last year raised £14 million to save lives at sea. EachPosted by RNLIRoles suitable for smaller groups and teams
Event Marshals
We need volunteers to join our team of marshals for the Euston Estate Marathon/Half Mara. No previous experience required, but must be friendly/enthusiastic.Posted by Run BrecklandCambridge Half Marathon Cheer Point
To support our 200 runners in the marathon, we have an exclusive cheer point within St John's college where we need volunteers to make lots of noise as support.Posted by Addenbrookes Charitable TrustGardening Volunteer, Squirrels Residential Service, Aylsham
Volunteers needed to keep a garden at the residential unit tidy and interesting, for the enjoyment of patients, visitors and staff. Posted by Voluntary Norfolk - NCH&C Volunteer ServiceTrustee and Board roles
Various Roles at Our Day Centre for Older People
Do you live near Attleborough? Would you like to be involved with our Day Centre for Older People? Do you have a few hours to spare? Posted by Attleborough Day CentreThe Hamlet - Trustee
Join The Hamlet Charity as a trustee and make a difference in 2025.Posted by The Hamlet CharitySecretary Trustee
Can you support the smooth running of meetings by providing administrative support to the Board?Posted by Inclusive Norwich