New Employer Supported Volunteering resources and guides

Increasingly, responsible business makes good business sense. Consumers overwhelmingly prefer to buy from organisations that demonstrate their corporate social responsibility, employees are more motivated, engaged and learn new skills that they bring back to the workplace.

Volunteering England have published new online material for employers and volunteer involving organisations, with the aim of increasing the amount of employer supported volunteering (ESV). As well as step-by-step guides, there are a host of resources to help you establish a programme.

ESV provides employees with the opportunity to volunteer with support from their employer. This may be in the form of time off for individual volunteering, or in a programme developed by the employer, such as a mentoring arrangement with a community partner or a team challenge event.

Quality mentoring programmes can offer employers flexible, diverse and sustainable employee volunteering opportunities which can develop employee skills and contribute to their corporate and social responsibility objectives.

MBF are currently gathering evidence from employees and employers who are formally working with local, regional or national mentoring projects to develop a business case for employee supported volunteer mentoring.

Resources available from Volunteer England include:

• Employers and ESV: the business case
• Setting up an ESV programme
• Managing an ESV programme
• ESV resources hub

Read more information about our Employer Supported Volunteering research

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