Corporate volunteering

We place skilled workers from a variety of professional backgrounds with VSO partner organisations both overseas and here in the UK. Our flexible employee volunteering schemes, can be designed for groups or individuals and include robust assessment and comprehensive training for all participants.

Corporate volunteering with VSO delivers a multitude of benefits and triple impact for the employee, the employer and the communities where we work.

Benefits to companies include:

• improved leadership, negotiation and problem solving skills for your workforce
• increased staff motivation, improving employee satisfaction results and aiding staff retention
• improved customer, client and stakeholder perception of your brand and values, helping you attract and retain the best talent
• enhanced adaptability and cross-cultural awareness of your workforce, giving them firsthand experience of working in emerging markets.

In addition to our standard placement, VSO are now offering new more flexible shorter-term volunteering assignments. These more agile, 6-8 week roles complement our long term volunteering work and are structured to deliver specific development needs for example in IT, strategy, finance, HR, business development and management, and marketing.

“My strong view is the CEO’s and senior executives of the future will have had experience not just internationally but also cross culturally and indeed across the sectors. The VSO programme is a perfect vehicle for providing that leadership development and training for companies of the future.”

Gib Bulloch, Executive Director, Accenture Development Partnerships

Please contact corporate.partnerships@vso.org.uk for more information.