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What are the Benefits?

Corporate Volunteering Programmes create multiple win-win situations, while helping build stronger, healthier communities. Whether it is important to you to solve a community problem, advance a worthy cause or to develop as a person, volunteering offers many benefits in appreciation for the gift of your time and expertise.

 

Benefits for volunteer organisations, government and the community:

  • Access to free or subsidised resources:
  •  Skills, knowledge, expertise and networks from the engagement with corporate volunteers.
  • Wider community awareness through the associated publicity, makes the social institutions feel supported in their activities.  

Benefits for Business:

   
  •  Volunteering enlarges the horizon of your employees and enriches their competencies. It helps develop networking skills, a positive public profile for your company, and enhances staff well-being.
  • Your employees provide a caring 'face', fostering the company as a ''good citizen'. It is in busines's own interest to be responsible - and, increasingly, consumers, financial institutions and investors expect companies to tangibly demonstrate that responsibilty.
  • Last, but not least, socially responsible companies. have a competitive advantage when it comes to enlisting new recruits. Surveys show that almost 75% of the questioned job applicants stated that they would like to be involved in corporate volunteering.

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