Employee volunteering for CSR
Employee volunteering can double the impact of your company’s CSR strategy, with tangible benefits for your staff and your local community.
Increasingly, businesses are using the skills and talents of their workforce to meet their corporate social responsibility (CSR) objectives. Allowing staff time off from work to volunteer for local charities can increase their commitment and motivation, improve team-working and leadership skills, enhance staff recruitment and retention and build brand loyalty.
There are literally hundreds of ways to engage your staff in volunteering activities in line with their skills, interests and training objectives – from environmental conservation, reading with kids or leading creative sessions to mentoring, project management and consultancy support.
But how do you measure the impact? Whilst many companies now recognise that employee volunteering makes good business sense, few are able to track the fantastic impact that their employees are making every day in local communities.
v’s CSR volunteering solution
At v, we love coming up with innovative volunteering solutions. And now we think we’ve got a brilliant way to help businesses inspire and measure employee volunteering – and support youth volunteering at the same time.
Through v’s Match Fund scheme, we’re already helping over 200 private companies and trusts to double the impact of their CSR by investing in youth volunteering, including high street brands like Tesco, T-Mobile, Sky, HSBC, McDonalds, Coca-Cola and MTV.
Meanwhile, the vinspired.com website is already helping over 90,000 members aged 16-25 to discover volunteering, record what they do and get recognition for their achievements. This year, we've been shortlisted for lots of internet awards, including the Charity Times Awards, the Nominet Internet Awards and the New Media Age Effectiveness Awards.
So, we started thinking... what happens if we combine these skills?
Using all this volunteering know-how, the team at v has developed Volunteering Works, a clever little website which can be turned into a bespoke employee volunteering website, tailored to meet the needs of your company and your employees.
Not only that, but by using this service, you’ll be helping to support our youth volunteering platform, vinspired.com, so that we can ensure that voluntary organisations can continue to promote their volunteering opportunities for free, and young people can continue to discover ways to give back to their communities.
Find out more on the Volunteering Works microsite.
