Employer-supported volunteering is when you support your staff to take part in volunteering opportunities, usually during work hours. It’s also sometimes called corporate volunteering. It can be ‘practical’ or ‘skills’ based. An example of practical volunteering would be helping to package and deliver food parcels with a local food bank. A skills-based volunteering example would be designing a website for a charity.
We can support employers to find the right volunteering opportunities for their team.
This could be:
One-off or short term ESV opportunities
This is sometimes called ‘micro volunteering’. These opportunities usually involve short and specific tasks that are easy to start and complete. Micro volunteering is ideal for people who have busy workloads, or who want to get a sense of what it’s like to volunteer without signing up to a big commitment. Examples include delivering careers talks in schools, running a CV or interview skills workshop, or a team challenge day such as river and park cleaning.
Longer-term opportunities
Longer-term ESV opportunities allow employees to make a sustainable commitment to support voluntary and community sector organisations by participating in initiatives which take place over longer periods. Examples include coaching and mentoring, working on community projects, or taking on positions of responsibility such as a sports coach, school governor or charity trustee.
