Kendall Knight: How employers can promote their CSR activities more effectively
Kendall Knight, Employer PR Consultant at PR in HR considers the best ways for employers to leverage their CSR activity “Creating a strong business and building a better world are not conflicting goals – they are both essential ingredients for…
Global FinTech Firm Launches Paid COVID-19 Employee Volunteer Programme
International investment firm EXANTE has today launched a COVID-19 volunteer programme within its global workforce, allowing employees to volunteer up to two days a week for a coronavirus relief scheme whilst continuing to receive their full salary. Instead of choosing…
Head of UK giving platform calls for businesses not to shun charities amid £4billion funding shortfall
UK firms are being asked not to completely close CSR schemes, with charities facing a £4billion funding shortfall amid the coronavirus crisis, warns Philip Webb, founder and managing director of Investors in Community, one of the UK’s leading online giving…
Over half of UK workforce believe their company should invest in CSR
Over half (59%) of UK workers believe their business should invest in charitable initiatives. Those within the age bracket of 18-29 are most likely to have this viewpoint, with two-thirds (67%) admitting to feeling this way, compared to just under…
Emergency Volunteering Leave – what are your rights?
Following the call to the British public for volunteers to support front line NHS, caring and emergency workers during this COVID19 emergency a significant number of people have signed up. Jane Crosby from Hart Brown Solicitors, looks at what rights…
Almost two thirds of employees do not receive any days off for volunteering
63% of employees in the UK do not receive any days off from their work to volunteer, as found by Perkbox, Europe’s fastest-growing employee experience platform, in a new study of 1,342 people. Perkbox’s data shows that this figure rises…
How businesses can benefit in 2019 by encouraging staff to become charity Trustees
New research from the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO)[i] has found that almost four in 10 Britons volunteer, with 77% saying it has improved their mental health and just over half (53%) saying it has improved their physical health….