Specific services are available to companies wanting to develop employee volunteering, these fall into 2 categories. click on the following for more information; 

FREE OPPORTUNITIES  Skills based Volunteering support, funded by the Scottish Government. A variety of ways of using your business skills, either as a team or individually, to support the development of the third sector.

Cares offers advice, brokerage services, and support in the development of employee volunteering. Activities include team challenge and number partner. 

Many SBC member companies have learned that encouraging their employees to volunteer is good for the individual, for the community and for business. Employer supported volunteer is one the most effective way of engaging your workforce and gaining committment toward responsibile business practice.

Volunteering prgrammes improve the employer’s relationship with its stakeholders, with the local community in which it operates, recruits from and serves.

Companies with effective employer supported volunteering programmes find that:

·         Employees are proud to work for them

·         Potential employees want to join them

·         Customers feel good about buying from them

·         Partners want to work with them

·         Investors want to invest in them

·         Local strategic partners welcome them to their area.

Volunteering intersects many of our activities and programmes, please see the programmes page for information on employability and schools volunteering opportuntiies.