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Volunteering for Businesses

 

“Hearing all the positive feedback on the impact that we had was really rewarding. The experience showcased the power of aligning professional skills with community needs.” 

Welcome to Community Southwark’s Volunteering Programme for Businesses

We help ourbusiness partners to make the biggest possible impact  for their staff and for the charities and community organisations in and around Southwark.   

We love having business partners join us in our work with the community and we offer a range of options for employee volunteering contributions.  

Volunteering for Employees 

At Community Southwark we specialise in delivering practical team challenge days and design bespoke skills & knowledge sharing volunteering opportunities.  The aim is to find synergy between community needs and the skills and time our business partners can offer through their employee volunteering.  

 

 

 

Our Services Include:

 

Team Away Day Challenges 

A team of up to 30 will be welcomed at one of our community partners and spend the day with practical self-sufficiency tasks such as tending a community garden or helping at a soup kitchen. Please note: we operate a charge for this service.   

  

 

Skills & Knowledge Sharing Volunteering 

There is a huge need for organisations to receive training in all different areas and to receive it from experts like yourselves. We will work with you and your colleagues to identify how the professional skills and expertise within your business can be harnessed to help transform the work of our community partners, by running a skills-sharing workshop to share your knowledge, an example of this could be 

  • Managing impact –Support organisations to show their funders and stake funders what they do and the impact they make
  • Website design and impact – Tools, resources and understanding of how best to utilise your website, what messaging you use and how
  • Fundraising – How to organise finances, how best to fundraise
  • Databases, CRM – Managing data, volunteers, information in a modern and systematic way
  • Strategic support – General strategic support

These workshops could be delivered online, at your office, in our office, for one hour, half a day or a full day, it can be flexible.   

 You can read a case study about skills-sharing volunteering here: Corporate Volunteering Spotlight: Katie Harvard Taylor – Community Southwark  

 

Individual Volunteering  

Employees looking to apply for individual volunteering roles can register on our Community Southwark Volunteer Platform. It is home to hundreds of volunteering roles from charities and community groups across Southwark. 

 

 

Other ways to support

 

Premises

One of the greatest challenges facing the VCS in Southwark is access to affordable space for their work – whether that’s a permanent office, one-off event space or regular meeting rooms. Community Southwark is working on a project to match charities with suitable space, so if you have any offices, meeting rooms or other areas that you could offer to our members, please let us know via our website: https://communitysouthwark.org/vcs-support/resources/venues/premises-matching-project/.

 

Donations  

We are also keen to hear from you if you could donate office furniture, supplies or other materials to our members.  

Could you sponsor our annual Southwark Stars  Volunteer Celebratory Event?

Donate toward our annual Community Southwark AGM or help us host more events for our members?

 

 

Get in touch..  

If you would like to have a chat to explore how we could work together and add value to your company’s volunteering programmes, or you simply have a question you’d like to ask, please do get in touch: involve@communitysouthwark.orgor (020 3848 6540). 

 

Are you a VCS organisation looking for support from a business?

Please speak to one of our team to discuss your organisation’s ability/capacity to host a potential Team Challenge on your site AND/OR whether you require skills-sharing support from a local business.

 

 

 

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Our Impact 2023/24

Corporate and Community Project Year One Report

14
Skills & Knowledge Sharing Workshop (small group or individual support) 
77
Team Challenges (practical projects) took place
£260,964
of corporate monetary value was secured for the sector
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