How Your Business Could Get Involved
Here is a small selection of examples of how your business could help your community:
1) Provide staff time and talent, e.g...
Sit on the board of a local community group
Be a student mentor in a local secondary school
Be a reading volunteer in a local primary school
Help to maintain a charity’s website
Offer to help a community group to complete a project as a team-building activity
2) Provide resources, e.g...
Let a community group use your meeting room to host their board meetings
Donate old letter-headed paper to a primary school
Donate IT equipment to voluntary groups when you next up-date your office IT
3) Sponsorship, e.g...
Support a school competition by donating a prize
Support a charity by donating auction prizes
Sponsor an award at an event such as Citizen of the Year or Minority Business Association Awards
Organise a fund-raising event within your workplace
Start a ‘dress-down Friday’, donating proceeds to a charity of your choice
Sponsor a local sports club’s kit
4) Community Partner
Start a long-term relationship with a community partner, which could be a charity, school, voluntary or community group that is close to your heart, and provide on-going support that could include of mixture of the activities above, as and when they need it, and you can provide it, for mutual benefit.
Benefits to your Business
Being involved with the local community brings numerous benefits to your business; some examples are:
• Increasing business profile through PR in the local media
• Winning new business as a result of your Corporate Social Responsibility activities
• Up-skilling your workforce without expensive training courses
• Retaining existing and attracting new staff
• Increased awareness of your business in the wider community
• Staff who are proud to work for you, and will speak positively about your company
• Providing excellent team-building opportunities
• Increasing staff motivation and productivity
Want to be involved?
To meet one of our Brokers please contact us.
External websites you can look at for volunteering ideas and contacts:
Register
By registering your details you will be the first to hear about our events and initiatives. You will also be able to take part in our on-line forum, where you can speak to other businesses about your community involvement, and liaise with voluntary and community groups about the support you could provide. Click here to register.
