Employer-supported volunteering

Employer-supported volunteering, often called ESV, is where organisations provide paid time for their employees to volunteer within their usual working hours.

Organisations may organise group activities for their staff or encourage staff to take on more regular arrangements, spreading their volunteering hours over perhaps half an hour a week.

Rather than offering all your employees volunteering days together, have you considered introducing volunteering throughout the year, which could amount to just 30 minutes a week for some of your staff?

This option is possible with roles like Befriending volunteer for Age UK Norfolk - helping prevent older people from feeling lonely and isolated by making a simple friendly call once a week. There's a very easy, quick and straightforward recruitment process and it's a very flexible role.

As an employer, with flexible volunteering options you also have the benefit of not losing multiple members of staff from the floor or office for 2 or 3 full days a year. 

The Get InVOLved platform makes it easier for your employees to find roles and for you as an employer to track their impact via your organisation's main page.

The first step is to register. You will then be able to create a page for your organisation.

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