Corporate Volunteering.

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.

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!

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.