Employee Volunteering

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Employee Volunteering is the term used when a company gives their employees time to work on environmental or social project in their community for free. Once seen as the luxury of large companies, employee volunteering is now an opportunity that all companies can benefit from.

Benefits to your business include:

- improved communication and leadership skills
- enhanced decision making
- project management skills
- effective teamwork
- improved morale
- greater productivity
- helps build healthy communities
- publicly demonstrates corporate social responsibility
- strengthens reputation and reinforces customer loyalty
- improves staff retention and recruitment.

Benefits to staff:

- offers the chance to engage in new, different and exciting experiences
- enhances existing skills and develops new ones
- increases staff pride and loyalty
- offers the satisfaction of giving back to society
- the chance to contribute to a cause
- doing something that appeals to you directly
- having fun

Read the Employee Volunteering Guide.

Find out about the business case for employee volunteering.

Volunteering Ashford are now in a position to provide advice, guidance, support and training to organisations and volunteers who want to explore employee volunteering . For further information please call 01233 665535 or email deputy.manager@volunteering-ashford.