Introduction

Investing in Volunteers for Employers (IiVE) is the UK award recognising an organisation’s commitment to best practice in employee volunteering management. It is designed for any size of organisation that supports its employees to volunteer.

Why take part?

Employers told us they wanted both a tool to help develop their employee volunteer programmes and a mark against which to recognise their work.

IiVE is designed to meet both these needs. It provides a structured tool to:

• Ensure best practice in employee volunteering programmes
• Design well managed and flexible volunteering initiatives that motivate employees
• Increase employee participation
• Promote the organisation’s commitment to their local community
• Build on established employee volunteering success and learning and develop a level of consistency in volunteering opportunities and experience
• Review how employee volunteering initiatives are complimenting an organisations values and objectives

IiVE has a well established history Founded in 2004 the IIVE standard was developed as a complimentary award to the IIV standard (for volunteer involving organisations) founded in 2001.