Employee volunteering

Volunteering Matters are experts in creating solutions to your needs and creating straightforward, effective, and impactful employee volunteering opportunities. With over 30 years experience of employee volunteering, we are partners you can trust.

Unlock the power of employee volunteering with Volunteering Matters

Volunteering Matters creates impactful, flexible, and easy-to-deliver employee volunteering programmes that make a real difference. We take the stress out of programme design, ensuring your goals—whether it’s boosting staff wellbeing, demonstrating social impact, or fostering inclusion—are met with tailored solutions.

By putting people and communities at the heart of what we do, we help employers and their teams use their skills, energy, and time to create lasting impact across the UK.

What we offer | How we work | Benefits | Contact us 

 

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What we offer

Join the many organisations, from small businesses to FTSE 100 companies, that trust us to deliver high-quality employee volunteering.

We enable teams of employee volunteers to support a community partner (such as a charity or school) through practical activities, interacting with service users or sharing their professional skills.

This can be a one-off day or long-term relationship over a sustained period, giving your employees the opportunity to develop a deeper and more meaningful connection.

Individual employee volunteers can be matched with young people to support them to develop their skills in academic subjects or to mentor them either in-person or virtually. 

You can also participate in our skills-based corporate volunteering programme to support charities and community groups to overcome operational challenges.

Work with our expert staff to develop your social impact and social value programmes and/or employee volunteer policies and materials.

We can also design and deliver training days that equip your employees to source and deliver volunteering opportunities in-house.

“Highly effective team bonding experience. Great to be able to help in a small way and the gratitude was just lovely and made the day extremely worthwhile.”

– QBE employee volunteer

How we work

Volunteering Matters offer more than simple brokerage. We identify a suitable partnership and manage everything right through to evaluation and impact reporting.

We take the stress, time, and risk out of your hands to provide high quality employee volunteer opportunities.

We provide added value by tailoring our employee volunteer programmes to connect your social impact objectives with genuine community needs.

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We do this by providing:

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Expert knowledge

Our team brings expert knowledge of practice and trends in employee volunteering, gained through our extensive portfolio of corporate clients over 30 years.

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Bespoke and stress-free service

Our expertise in programme design and evaluation takes the time, stress, and risk out of your volunteer initiatives – we offer much more than brokerage, tailored to your needs.

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High impact for everyone

Our programmes create positive impact for your business, your employees, and community partners. We also offer double impact -by working with us

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A large network of community partners

As part of the UK’s leading volunteering charity, we have a diverse range of community partners that we can connect you with. We combine the reach and scale of a national organisation with truly deep local connections.

Benefits for your organisation

Each of our employee volunteering programmes offers significant impact for your team, your organisation’s objectives, and the wider community.

Your staff will make a transformative impact on people’s lives, while developing their professional skills and team relationships. By creating lasting positive changes within the local community and for causes they care about, your employees will be inspired and motivated.

We can provide you with opportunities to show your business’ commitment to social impact and improve staff morale and wellbeing – all while supporting meaningful local causes.

  1. Meaningful social impact: The social and environmental impact of companies is increasingly important to customers​ and for winning business contracts.
  2. Skills development: Employee volunteer programmes are an excellent opportunity for team building and development in leadership skills.
  3. Employee wellbeing: Our services can enhance your team’s morale and company loyalty while improving their individual wellbeing.
  4. Double impact: By working with us, you will also support social action projects ran by our national charity, Volunteering Matters

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Contact us

Find out today how your business can get involved. You can book a call or enter your details below and a member of the team will be in touch.

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