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Bringing skilled volunteers together with community leaders to tackle key challenges creates powerful results. Through focused online sessions, volunteers help define priorities and shape practical strategies that drive long-term growth and impact. By sharing their expertise, volunteers strengthen services, boost engagement and help charities deliver even greater value to the communities they support.

What impact can you deliver?

1
Community impact
Strengthen local organisations to better serve those in need.
2
Employee impact
Enable skilled volunteers to make a meaningful difference remotely.
3
Business impact
Contribute to more resilient community services, showcasing a clear purpose.

Start your corporate volunteering journey with Employee Volunteering

We are the world’s leading partner for providing corporate volunteering programmes and solutions around the world.

The volunteer challenge

Volunteers collaborate in online sessions to support community leaders by:

  • Reviewing and mapping the charity’s business model
  • Identifying key organisational challenges and opportunities
  • Brainstorming practical solutions with diverse skill sets
  • Documenting strategic priorities for immediate action

Sessions are designed for groups of up to 10 volunteers, adaptable in length and focus, providing a rewarding experience that directly helps charities improve their impact.

It’s amazing what can be achieved in just a few hours. Collaborating with a charity to solve real challenges not only made a difference for them, it was inspiring for us too.

Feedback from a corporate volunteer

Why is volunteering so important?

of UK workers want to use the skills they develop at work for volunteering.

Pilotlight, 2023

of charities identified a lack of strong management as a barrier to growth.

Third Sector Economic Impact Report 2023

of charities report skills shortages.

Charity Aid Foundation 2025

How our corporate volunteering works

A safe pair of hands

We help manage risk management and safety, safeguarding, GDPR compliance, insurance compliance and environmental policies.

Boost employee engagement with technology

Through the Volunteering Hub, we help you drive sign ups and boost engagement so that you can maximise your social impact at every project.

Let the data do the talking

The Volunteering Hub allows you to capture data easily across your business. With access to real-time reporting you can easily see the return on your social investment.

Leverage human connections + storytelling

Reinforce data with quotes from charities and your employees. We capture photos, feedback, and quotes from your projects so you create powerful brand stories.

Looking for something similar?

We offer a range of customised online skills based corporate volunteering opportunities for teams and individuals, like:

  • Supporting marine conservation – identifying marine life by reviewing footage of the seabed
  • Financial resilience workshops – sharing skills and expertise to support charities with financial sustainability

FAQs

Anyone with professional or personal experience who’s keen to support a charity by sharing ideas, insights, or strategic thinking.
No, all perspectives are valuable. You’ll be working as part of a diverse team to help explore challenges and identify solutions.
The session is 2.5 hours and takes place entirely online, making it easy to join from your desk.
You’ll help review areas like service delivery, communication, funding, and stakeholder engagement using a simple business model framework.
You’ll work collaboratively in a group of up to 10 colleagues alongside the charity’s leadership team and a trained forum facilitator.
All ideas and solutions are captured by a note taker in the Community Business Model Canvas, which the charity takes away to implement.