UK Employee Volunteering 2022-23 Report

The UK Employee Volunteering 2022-23 from corporate volunteering specialist Works4U provides revealing insight into employee volunteering in the UK from the perspective of employees.

Works4U Wins International Award for Leading Employee Volunteering in UK

Works4U wins international award for its work leading employee volunteering in the UK.

Community CVS the First Volunteer Infrastructure Organisation to Obtain the Lead Volunteering Organisation (LVO) Quality Standard

The first volunteer infrastructure organisation to obtain the new national Lead Volunteering Organisation (LVO) is Community CVS in Blackburn with Darwen. Awarding body Works4U CEO Dominic Pinkney presented the LVO award to Volunteering Manager Kate Lee and her colleagues at Community CVS.

The Story behind the Game-changing report on the Monetary Value of Trustees

So… I’ve written a report. But I didn’t mean to. What I set myself as a 15 minutes task ended up being a 58 page report (don’t worry, there are lots of images) and I have not dared to calculate how much of my spare time this took. I run two volunteer centre charities and …

9 Expert Tips for Developing an Employee Volunteering Programme

Employee volunteering experts Works4U have produced a free guide for businesses to help them establish and develop successful impactful volunteering programmes within their organisation. Not-for-profit social enterprise Works4U was founded in 2009 and they have helped hundreds of businesses with their corporate volunteering programmes. If you are looking to develop your employee volunteering programme and …

Is Volunteering Dying?

If this sounds like one of those deliberately provocative ‘clickbait’ headlines, then I’m sorry to have to say this is a real question being asked in the voluntary and community sector. Only this week I got an email from someone struggling to recruit volunteers for an event who told me, ‘volunteering is a dying trait’. …

Just a few days left – WIN £200 for a charity or community group of your choice

There are only a few days left to win £200 for a charity or community group of your choice. As promoted by Smiley News, all you need to do is complete the very quick and easy anonymous survey about employee volunteering from not-for-profit social enterprise Works4U: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/5R8ZBC3 Works4U is an employee volunteering specialist and the …

2022-23 UK Employee Volunteering Survey

There is a big contrast in the significant level of employee volunteering activity in the UK compared to the small amount of data, analysis and research on this topic. It is actually quite surprising. Employee volunteering specialist, not-for-profit Works4U, is addressing this large gap by launching a dedicated employee volunteering survey that will provide, perhaps …

Lead Volunteering Organisation (LVO) Quality Standard is Live!

I am proud and pleased to say the brand new Quality Standard called Lead Volunteering Organisation (LVO) is now live! Designed by a volunteer infrastructure organisation for volunteer infrastructure organisations. To explain in other words, I have selfishly created a Quality Standard that I want for my volunteer infrastructure organisations and so it will probably …

Under 3mins Pitch: Why being a Trustee is the best Volunteer role

In the video below, I outline in under 3 minutes why being a Trustee is the very best volunteer role there is. If you cannot bear looking at my face for that long, and I do not blame you, then you can read my blog article explaining similar arguments.