8 June 2006, Hotel Russell, London WC1
News release: 1 June 2006
Investing in Volunteers for Employers has been developed to help improve the management and outcomes of employer supported volunteering programmes (ESV).
Investing in Volunteers for Employers provides a structured tool to:
- Ensure best practice in employer supported volunteering systems and delivery
- Motivate employees through well managed and flexible employer supported volunteering initiatives
- Increase the numbers of volunteers being supported by their employer
- Promote an organisation’s commitment to their local community
- Support the consolidation of practice and encourage consistency of opportunities and experience
- Review how employer supported volunteering initiatives are complementing business values and objectives
Through the Investing in Volunteers for Employers web site www.investinginvolunteers.org.uk/iivemployers employers can explore the ten key areas of employer supported volunteering best practice. These can then be used to benchmark current work. Areas covered include:
- Recruitment
- Supervision
- Risk management
- Recognition
The Investing in Volunteers for Employers framework is available free of charge, with a registration fee for those wishing to gain the externally assessed, UK wide, Investing in Volunteers for Employers quality mark.
To express interest and gain a personalised quote for external assessment against Investing in Volunteers for Employers, please contact
Jane Curbishley, Investing in Volunteers Manager, at Volunteering England Tel. 020 7520 8990, or e-mail iiv@volunteeringengland.org.uk
“At KPMG, we have operated a structured employee volunteering programme for over 10 years. The Investing in Volunteers for Employers standard provides us with an opportunity to ensure we are providing our people and community organisations with the best levels of support, opportunities and guidance. Assessing our employee volunteering programme to a UK standard, highlights KPMG’s commitment to our communities and our investment in the volunteering efforts of our people.”
Mike Kelly, Director of CSR, KPMG
Context:
Investing in Volunteers for Employers is the new quality standard managed in England by Volunteering England. Independent assessors work with the volunteer programme team to benchmark and guide operations within the context of the business.
The quality standard will provide employers with the confidence that employees are volunteering within a well managed programme. The award is suited to ESV programmes in private, public and voluntary sector.
The development of Investing in Volunteers for Employers has managed by Volunteering England and funded by CapacityBuilders as part of the ChangeUp programme delivered by the Volunteering Hub.
Launch date 8 June 2006, Hotel Russell, Russell Square, London WC1B 5BE.
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Notes to editors:
Volunteering England’s aims are to increase the quality, quantity, contribution and accessibility of volunteering throughout England; secure and support an England-wide network of quality volunteer development agencies, promoting and enabling volunteering and community involvement; undertake research, policy and development activity; and provide grants, support and advice to sustain and develop volunteering. It understands the term volunteering to include formal activity undertaken through public, private and voluntary organisations as well as informal community participation.
