Charitable Donations

Sponsor charity or community events.

Give time and/gifts in kind to support community events (eg local carnivals)

Provide incentive schemes for exercise-based fundraising activities (eg sponsor/match-fund employee participation in local fun runs)

Provide 'starter kits' to homeless charities to assist people affected by homelessness move in to supported accommodation

Recognise and celebrate your employees' achievements in the community by running an internal award scheme

Set up a partnership/project to promote Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Obtain Fair Trade status & promote the consumption of Fair Trade products.

Set up or provide help to run a service to support patients or vunerable people

Encourage employers to set-up employee-led fundraising events and to provide pound matching up to agreed individual limits.

Share senior management experience with not-for-profit organisations

Offer pro-bono professional expertise to disadvantaged individuals or a voluntary organisation

Channel team-building energies in to an activity which will leave a lasting benefit to the community (eg creating a sensory garden for children with disabilities)

Offer and promote payroll giving to employees

Install an in-house gym or negotiate a subsidised membership of a local gym/swimming pool for employees

Adopt new working arrangements to improve work-life balance (eg flexible working, staff crèche, job share)

Have a volunteering policy and promote this to employees to make it easier for them to give their time and expertise to support the local community (eg develop partnerships with voluntary organisations)

Provide a mentor/coach for local young people or someone in a charity

Join the management board/committee of a voluntary organisation

Provide sessions and support to staff who want to give up smoking

Host a Student Police Officer for 2 to 4 days to help identify and address any problems with crime that your business/community has

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