Business2Community CIC

1. Assessing potential challenge opportunities and advising on the practical implications
2. Advertising challenge opportunities to employers
3. Introducing organisations with matching interests and needs and arranging site visits
4. Providing advice and guidance on best practice in employee volunteering, material costings and task groups
5. Working with the organisation to do a risk assessment prior to the challenge and ensuring that all volunteers are aware of relevant health and safety issues
6. Organising press and publicity for the event
7. Conducting an evaluation of the event to learn from the experiences of the volunteers, employer and beneficiary organisation
8. Helping to setup refreshments on the day

Employee volunteering can:

1. Enhance the skills of employees E.g. project management, communication, coaching and listening, team working, management, innovative thinking, problem solving and time management.
2. Improve staff motivation and commitment
3. Improve levels of recruitment and retention
4. Improve business performance
5. Develop stronger links with the local community
6. Improve public image

The experience of volunteering can enable employees to:

1. Build new skills
2. Increase confidence, motivation and self-esteem
3. Meet new people
4. Add variety to their work
5. Make a difference to something they care about and gain a strong sense of personal satisfaction
6. Gain a greater understanding of the needs and problems of their local communities and increase their sense of empathy with local people
7. Have fun

Voluntary and community organisations benefit from employee volunteering as they can:

1. Access teams of volunteers who can plan and carry out major tasks
2. Harness new skills, knowledge and energy
3. Access business skills and expertise
4. Gain a fresh perspective
5. Improve understanding between themselves and the public and private sectors
6. Raise the profile of the organisation and the issues it works to address.

Employee volunteering:

1. Provides powerful resources for tackling social and environmental problems
2. Builds relationships and increases understanding and empathy across society
3. Acts as a catalyst to get people involved in their community
4. Helps to build cohesive, prosperous, healthy and crime-free communities

Many businesses in the Borough of Greenwich are working with B2C to develop employee volunteering programmes.