Corporate Volunteering

Read our latest news and views on the world of volunteering

What volunteering can do for social mobility

Corporate volunteering is one of the most direct ways businesses can act to help people in the community build the confidence, skills and connections that make it more likely they land a good job.

The wellbeing effect: How employee volunteering builds engagement

Delivering genuinely local volunteering across a business with offices, sites or teams spread across the country is one of the harder operational challenges in corporate social responsibility.

Global workforce, local heart: making employee volunteering work everywhere

Running employee volunteering across borders is one of those challenges that sounds straightforward until you actually try it.

Why your employee volunteering programme needs local roots

Delivering genuinely local volunteering across a business with offices, sites or teams spread across the country is one of the harder operational challenges in corporate social responsibility.

Belonging in action: how corporate volunteering builds culture

Most organisations put genuine effort into inclusion. The policies are in place, the values are visible, and by most measures the workforce is doing fine. People get on well enough, the work gets done, and very few are particularly unhappy.

Environmental volunteering: the impact you can see, measure and be proud of

Corporate volunteering has been transformed by technology and modern programme design. But too many businesses are still running programmes built for a workforce that no longer exists.

From first event to lasting legacy: how to build a corporate volunteering programme worth keeping

Every volunteering programme begins somewhere. For many businesses, that means a handful of well-chosen activities, dipping a toe into the water so to speak, with causes that feel right for the organisation, and formats that get people engaged.

The volunteering revolution nobody is talking about

There is a version of corporate environmental commitment that lives entirely in documents, from net zero targets and sustainability strategies through to supply chain policies. All of it important, but none of it something your employees can see, touch or feel part of.

Fifty Years of The King’s Trust and Why Young People Still Matter

Last Thursday our CEO and Volunteering Pioneer, Dewi Thomas, had the privilege of attending The King’s Trust 50th Anniversary Garden Party at Buckingham Palace.

Why corporate volunteering may be the most overlooked wellbeing strategy in business

Businesses across the UK have invested seriously in employee wellbeing over recent years. Mental health apps, resilience workshops, mindfulness programmes, EAP schemes, awareness campaigns – the range and ambition of wellbeing provision has grown considerably, and much of it comes from a genuine desire to support people better.

#IVY2026: how corporate volunteering is already supporting our communities

Raising the standard: what it takes to make corporate volunteering work

The end of the first quarter is often a revealing moment for corporate volunteering programmes. The enthusiasm of January has settled, initial activities have begun and plans are starting to turn into reality.
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