Get your corporate volunteering programme off to a flying start

12 ideas to make volunteering work for your organisation

Our free guide explains how your organisation can make a positive impact in your local community while maximising team engagement through volunteering.

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Employer Supported Volunteering (ESV), also known as corporate volunteering, is a great way to support and give back to your local community. But it can also pay dividends for your business too.   

In fact, according to research, 40% of businesses that have been involved in volunteering reported a boost in employee morale, 38% received positive PR and 21% found it created a stronger team. As well as this almost every business (95%) that has volunteered would recommend it to other businesses.  

Smart businesses are waking up to the power of volunteering and baking it into the DNA of their organisations as a staff development tool, a method of community engagement and an opportunity to boost their brand and business.  

Zellar makes ESV simple to find projects that fit your values – so that you can focus on making a real difference. Using Zellar, businesses can find a range of corporate environmental and social volunteering opportunities across the UK from conservation work to educational support. Zellar also offers local action days where businesses can volunteer together to create change. Within the Zellar platform, there is a growing variety of community-based programmes designed to engage businesses in volunteering. These involve activities ranging from wildflower planting to teaching children to read.   

What unites every activity is their meeting of a social need – whether it’s helping people get into work or building self-confidence.   

They also provide a valuable way for businesses to use their people power to affect change in the community.   

But, when it comes to building a successful ESV programme, finding the right projects to support is only part of the story.  

Knowing what to watch out for when incorporating an ESV programme into your business - whether you’re at the initial stages or looking to streamline current practices – could be critical to success.   

To help, Zellar’s has launched a new volunteering guide that uncovers everything you need to consider at the start of your volunteering programme journey.  Our guide helps your business to understand how to find a project that best suits you, engage your stakeholders, implement volunteering policies, enhance your mission, showcase your progress and more.  

Download your free volunteering guide and kickstart community action in your business