Benefits to CSR/ESV volunteering
Business benefits
- Improving public image
- Creating networks with potential clients and partners
- Encouraging team building and internal communication
- Increasing employees’ commitment, morale, and motivation
- Enhancing the skills of employees through new experiences
- Improving levels of recruitment and retention
Employee benefits
- Developing new skills or improving existing skills
- Making a difference to society and the environment
- Meeting new people and mixing in teams
- Exploring new situations and challenges
- Building self-confidence
- Changing or enhancing the way the individual feels about them-self and their employer
- Having fun and adding variety to the daily work routine
Community benefits
- Helps communities to maximise their impact through access to more volunteers, many with specialist skills
- Opportunity to widen networks and meet employers and employee representatives
- A great way to harness new skills, knowledge, and energy
- Brings employers closer to the community giving employees the opportunity to find out about local groups and issues
- Creates ways to find common solutions between all sectors
- Increases opportunities for people from different backgrounds to work together