Skills based employee volunteering has been proven to have direct economic benefits for the businesses involved.

Research " Tapping into Scotland's Talent" carried out by SBC involving leading Scottish employers who were currently working with disengaged young people and the long term unemployed found that they experienced the following benefits as a result of their involvement.  

• Personal Developement: Skills development is one of the major impact areas for employees engaged in volunteering. Activities such as mentoring and job coaching provide opportunities for staff to develop their soft skills including presentation, management and communication skills which can be bought back into the business. Many companies intergrate these valuable skills within their annual performance apprisal process.
• Winning New Contracts: This is often a direct result of engaging with skills based volunteering that also benefits the community. Most tenders with local authorities and publicy funded bodies now require an element of community engagement and youth employement.
• Improved Morale: Engaging in employability and skills based volunteering improves morale amongest existing members of staff, making them proud to work for a company that wishes to support its local community. 

Members of staff are proud of helping to improve local communities and schools and this also helps them to develop their own skills and expereince. Staff comment that learning how to communicate and connect with young people makes communicating with colleagues

much easier  (John Lewis)