Brokering Sustainable

Partnerships Between
Employers and Communities
Information on skills-based Employer Supported Volunteering
brokerage for local volunteering infrastructure organisations
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Contents
Introduction 4
Section 1: 7
About Employer Supported Volunteering
Section 2: 11
Employer Supported Volunteering landscape and trends
Section 3: 15
Skills-based Employer Supported Volunteering –
the business case
Section 4: 19
About Employer Supported Volunteering brokerage
Section 5: 22
Top tips for a successful brokerage scheme
Section 6: 25
Time & Talents Network – the story so far
Section 7: 31
Time & Talents Network – key achievements
Section 8: 37
Next steps – Employer Supported Volunteering
in your organisation
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 Introduction
About this guide
The guide covers a range of information on Employer Supported
Volunteering with a focus on skills-based brokerage models.
It also showcases the development of a network of skills-based
Employer Supported Volunteering brokerage services based within
Volunteer Centres, led by Volunteering England, called the
Time & Talents Network.

Who is funding this guide?

This guide has been created through the Modernising Volunteering
workstream of the National Support Services programme, led
by Volunteering England and funded by Capacitybuilders and
Nationwide Foundation.

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Modernising Volunteering
Working at a national level, the Modernising Volunteering workstream
is funded by Capacitybuilders through the National Support Services
programme. It aims to develop the skills and performance of people
and organisations supporting locally based social enterprises, charities
and voluntary groups. Resources, information and learning gathered
and developed by the Modernising Volunteering workstream are
shared with support providers through the Improving Support website,
magazine and e-bulletin. To find out more, visit:
www.improvingsupport.org.uk
The Nationwide Foundation is a registered charity (number 1065552)
which makes grants to other UK charities. The Foundation chose to
fund Volunteering England for this project to discover why businesses
and charities, which have so much to offer one another for mutual gain,
did not access these benefits as much as they could, and what could
be done to forge greater links.
The Nationwide Foundation’s principle benefactor is Nationwide
Building Society. To find out more about the work of the Nationwide
Foundation, visit: www.nationwidefoundation.org.uk

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 Acknowledgements
Volunteering England would like to thank Capacitybuilders
and the Nationwide Foundation for funding this work.

Our thanks also go to…

… Jan Blackburn for providing invaluable Employer Supported

Volunteering consultancy support to the Modernising Volunteering
National Support Services team from the early stages
of the programme.
… Marie Broad and colleagues from Time & Talents for
Westminster at Volunteer Centre Westminster for their hard work,
advice and mentoring support.
… Corporate Citizenship for producing the Year One report Forging
Sustainable Partnerships between Businesses and Communities .*
Plus, a final big thank you to Darlington, Exeter and Oxfordshire
Volunteer Centres and CVS’ – their hard work and professionalism
over the last year has been essential to setting up a successful
skills-based Employer Supported Volunteering brokerage network.

* This is available to download from the Volunteering England website, at:

www.volunteering.org.uk/improvingsupport

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Section 1

About Employer Supported Volunteering

 About Employer Supported Volunteering
Employer Supported Volunteering (ESV) is the term used by
Volunteering England to describe all forms of volunteering carried
out by employees which are supported by their employer.
This can take the form of employers freeing up time for employees
to do their own volunteering, as well as formal ESV programmes.
History of Employer Supported Volunteering
Employer Supported Volunteering (ESV) has grown steadily in the UK
over the last few decades. During the 1990s, hundreds of companies
became involved in ESV schemes, although at this time most of these
were major national private sector employers.
Over the last decade, ESV has become a central feature of many
corporate community partnerships. It has also become much more
widespread across public sector employers and small to medium
enterprises.
The majority of early ESV was based on ‘challenge’ activity – where
a group of employees worked together to undertake a specific task
for a charity or community group, generally a practical project such
as painting or decorating. Challenges are sometimes portrayed
negatively; however, when they are well-managed and undertaken as
a partnership between the charity and the employer, challenges can
bring huge benefit and added value to organisations. This is particularly
true for charitable organisations with responsibility for maintaining open
spaces, play areas and community buildings.
Although challenges continue to be of benefit and can serve as
a valuable introduction to volunteering and lead to longer term
volunteering relationships, there has been a gradual growth in skills-
based volunteering partnerships.

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About skills-based Employer Supported Volunteering
Skills-based Employer Supported Volunteering (SBESV) describes
employers supporting their staff to volunteer their time and professional
talents, or wider skills, to support charities and community groups.
A highly skilled workforce is key to the success of a business, and
SBESV provides worthwhile opportunities for employees to engage
their skills for the benefit of others as well as developing new skills
which they can take back to their workplace. Charities and community
groups benefit from the valuable expertise of employees which builds
capacity and increases service delivery as well as developing
relationships across the sectors.
There are a wide range of SBESV roles that employee volunteers can
participate in, from mentoring and trusteeship to IT support and
fundraising. Employees can give anything from a few hours to help run
a one-off activity – such as a workshop on finance or CV writing –
through to a regular weekly/monthly commitment or a longer placement
as a volunteer secondee.

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 Employer Supported Volunteering and corporate
social responsibility
For many employers, Employer Supported Volunteering lies within
a wider programme of corporate social responsibility. This work
usually covers a range of areas, including environment and
sustainability, diversity in the workplace and community engagement,
with Employer Supported Volunteering at the heart of the community
engagement strategy.

“We have won a number of

bids in which our corporate
social responsibility policy was
identified as a strength… or as
a differentiator.”
Medium-sized management
consultancy

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Section 2

Employer Supported Volunteering

landscape and trends
 Employer Supported Volunteering
landscape and trends
The 2007 national survey of volunteering and charitable giving, Helping
Out, shows that 36% of employees in England worked for an employer
who offered an Employer Supported Volunteering (ESV) scheme,1 a
figure that increased from 16% in 1997.2
The size of the employer does make a difference: the Helping Out
survey found that larger companies (with over 250 staff) are more likely
to have an ESV scheme available than medium-sized enterprises (with
between 51 and 249 staff) or small companies (with 50 staff or less).
This was 47% of companies, compared with 20% and 14% respectively.3
In the public sector, Employer Supported Volunteering has attracted
attention on various occasions, including in 2002 when paid
volunteering leave was introduced in central Government departments,
and during the Year of the Volunteer in 2005. In a 2009 review of
Employer Supported Volunteering in the Civil Service, Baroness
Neuberger recommended that all civil servants should be given up to
five days off per year to volunteer.4

1
N. Low et al (2007) Helping out: a national survey of volunteering and charitable giving,
Cabinet Office.
2
J. Davis Smith (1998) The 1997 national survey of volunteering, Institute for Volunteering Research
3
Low et al, 2007
4
J. Neuberger (2009) Employer-supported volunteering in the civil service – A review by
Baroness Neuberger, the Prime Minister’s Volunteering Champion, Cabinet Office

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Employer Supported Volunteering and staff skills development
Employers are increasingly
recognising that supporting their
employees to volunteer is not only
a cost-effective way to meet their
corporate social responsibility
objectives, but also a good way
to develop staff skills and improve
motivation, alongside more
formal training.
Skills-based activities, such as
mentoring, volunteering as a
trustee or school governor or
planning and delivering a skills-
sharing workshop, offer clear and
identifiable opportunities to learn
and develop in a different arena.
Pro-bono activities, in which
volunteers engage their day-to-day
professional skills such as project
management, law and accountancy,
offer yet more opportunities to link
ESV with skills development in
new or unfamiliar environments.
5
J .Lloyd (2010) More than CV Points? The Benefits of Employee Volunteering for Business and
Individuals, The Social Market Foundation
A sign of the shift in emphasis
towards linking Employer Supported
Volunteering with skills development
is the increasing number of
employers that are positioning
responsibility for ESV within
Human Resources or Learning &
Development teams as well as, or
instead of, within Corporate Social
Responsibility teams.
“Within the [Employer
Supported Volunteering]
Programme we offer a range of
different volunteering activities,
and plan to develop more.
An increasing percentage are
skills-based, enhancing the
contribution we can make to
our partner charities as well
as helping BT people to
practice existing skills in a
different context, learn new
skills and grow in confidence
and motivation.” 5
Helen Simpson, Director,
Volunteering, BT Group
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 Employer Supported Volunteering and the Big Society
The changing political landscape presents opportunities for promoting
Employer Supported Volunteering as a way of connecting communities.
Some key points from the Big Society agenda include plans to:
• Lead by example, transforming the civil service into a ‘civic
service’ by encouraging civil servants to volunteer and participate
in social action projects
• Launch an annual Big Society Day to celebrate the work of
neighbourhood groups and encourage more people to take part in
social action
• Empower communities to come together to address local issues.
There is clearly scope for all involved to monitor how ESV can
contribute to these areas as the Big Society concept continues
to develop.

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Section 3

Skills-based Employer Supported

Volunteering – the business case

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 Skills-based Employer Supported
Volunteering – the business case
Why should employers engage in skills-based Employer
Supported Volunteering?
The benefits of skills-based
volunteering to employers are
significant and participation is
especially relevant in the context
of the current economic climate.
Skills-based volunteering can
provide a greater return on
investment than team challenges
and arguably deliver greater and
more sustainable impacts to the
community.
One of the key benefits identified
is the personal development
opportunities for employees,
potentially saving money on
corporate training programmes in
the short term, and leading to an
up-skilled workforce, greater
employee satisfaction, higher
retention rates and increased
morale in the longer term.6
6
A. Braybrooks and L. Carter, (2009), Forging Sustainable Partnerships Between Businesses and
Communities, Volunteering England
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It can also provide organisations
with a cost-effective method of
meeting corporate social
responsibilities and help to
develop an enhanced reputation
and increased profile in the
community. This can lead to longer
term impacts like security in the
local economy and building
bridges between businesses and
the community they operate in.
“As a representative of 25,000
small and medium-sized firms
across the UK, the Forum of
Private Business (FPB) wholly
recommends volunteering…
It doesn’t have to cost much,
but the benefits – for both the
businesses and their
respective communities – can
be significant.”
Phil Orford, Chief Executive,
FPB
Why should charities and community groups engage in skills-based
Employer Supported Volunteering?
The key benefits for organisations
that take on skills-based employer
supported volunteers are access
to professional skills and services
which they would otherwise be
unable to afford, support to develop
infrastructure, improved capacity
and increased service delivery.
The development of longer-term
partnerships with employers
could also lead to further
opportunities to gain support, as
well as raising awareness of the
work of the charity among
employees. Charities and
community groups can also
benefit from a new perspective on
the issues they face.
“The benefits [of involving
employer supported volunteers]
are exposure to a more
commercially-oriented way of
thinking, and mainly getting
stuff done that you can’t afford
to resource for.”
International charity
Skills-based roles can include:
Running skills workshops
IT support
Treasurer/accountancy
Project management
PR and marketing
Trusteeship
HR
Mentoring
Business planning.
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 Why should employers work more closely with local volunteering
infrastructure organisations?
Research by Corporate Citizenship7 shows that the majority of
employers generally find opportunities for skills-based volunteers
through three main channels: working with existing volunteer involving
organisation (VIO) partners, using specialist brokers and making direct
approaches to VIOs.
The use of existing VIO partners to source skills-based opportunities
has great benefits, such as knowledge of the organisation and its cause
and a well-established relationship. However, there are also significant
opportunities to be exploited if an employer widens its range of partners
beyond existing relationships.
Local infrastructure organisations are ideally placed to broker effective
Employer Supported Volunteering. As a hub for local charities and
community organisations, they have an ear to the ground and are up to
date with real community issues. Their combination of local knowledge,
contacts and volunteering expertise is ideal to source opportunities for
employer supported volunteers which make a real difference and meet
genuine need.

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Corporate Citizenship (formerly The Smart Company) (2007) Developing understanding around
non-financial support

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Section 4

About Employer Supported

Volunteering brokerage
 About Employer Supported
Volunteering brokerage
The term ‘Employer Supported Volunteering brokerage’ refers to
the process whereby the skills, time and talents of employees are
matched with the needs of community organisations through sourcing
volunteering opportunities. Brokers work in a variety of ways, from
providing one-off activities through to developing comprehensive
volunteering programmes.
Brokers with knowledge and experience of volunteering are ideally
placed to facilitate successful Employer Supported Volunteering (ESV)
for many reasons. In particular, they:
• Are experts in forging meaningful ESV activities and partnerships
• Have excellent local knowledge and links with voluntary
organisations of all sizes
• Are well positioned to provide tailored volunteering options for
employers while ensuring that volunteer involving organisations
(VIOs) are getting help that will really benefit them
• Can educate employers on local community issues and the types
of ESV activities that really benefit VIOs
• Appreciate business needs and can ensure that ESV activity has
clear links to an employer’s business strategy and the development
needs of its staff
• Can facilitate a range of ESV-related activity, from sourcing
and developing opportunities through to monitoring, evaluation
and feedback
• Can act as a point of contact and information for both employers
and VIOs to manage expectations and ensure that both parties
are working towards a common goal

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• Can listen and respond to questions and negotiate to ensure
mutually beneficial outcomes and partnership working
• Are able to participate in and advise on local networks and key
community and voluntary infrastructure groups
• Are up to date with good practice and policy developments
• Are able to provide specialist tools and resources to manage and
coordinate volunteering activity and can provide additional consultancy.

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Section 5

Top tips for a successful brokerage scheme

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Top tips for a successful
brokerage scheme
Top tips on brokering effective Employer Supported Volunteering

1. Look for well-established businesses and voluntary sector networks

in your area
2. Seek to understand the objectives and success criteria for all
parties – employers, employees, charities and community groups
and their beneficiaries
3. Manage expectations and encourage others to do the same.
4. Clarify roles and responsibilities – who is doing what and when?
5. Confirm information and actions in writing.

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 Top tips for engaging employers
1. Research the local business landscape and build a business database.
2. Do your homework. Before approaching employers, search their
websites to look for evidence of involvement in corporate social
responsibility or Employer Supported Volunteering (ESV), or
commitment to charitable causes.
3. Keep your active prospect list of employers up to date, reflecting
local economic and political developments.
4. Always keep your word. Agree actions and dates and stick to them;
make deadlines realistic and build in room for unexpected eventualities.
5. Ask for referrals. There is nothing more powerful than a
recommendation from someone a potential new business knows
or respects.

Top tips for engaging charities and community groups

1. Explain what skills-based ESV is and the multiple benefits to their
organisation, the community and the volunteers.
2. Clarify your role as a broker and what this entails.
3. Manage expectations from the outset. Explain the process of
engaging and recruiting volunteers and that there is no guarantee
that you will be able to find suitable volunteers to help them.
4. Assess their capacity to provide support and management to
volunteers and explain what would be required of them.
5. Discuss how skills-based volunteers could support their organisation
and jointly develop appropriate roles.

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 Capacitybuilders, photography by Paul Doyle, taken at the Magic Carpet art exhibition at Westerly Exeter BMW/Mini

Section 6

Time & Talents Network – the story so far

 Time & Talents Network – the story so far
Background
The Time & Talents Network has
been developed by Volunteering
England through the Modernising
Volunteering National Support
Services Programme, a three-year
programme running from April
2008 until March 2011.
The overall aim of the work is to
develop sustainable models of
skills-based Employer Supported
Volunteering, focusing on local
brokerage. The desired outcome
of this is to provide the voluntary
and community sector with better
access to skills-based employer
supported volunteers.
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Objectives
The Time & Talents Network:
• Develops and tests sustainable
methods of brokerage and
support for skills-based
Employer Supported
Volunteering (SBESV)
• Develops new tools and
resources to assist the
brokerage of SBESV through
local and regional infrastructure
organisations
• Builds the confidence,
knowledge and capacity of local
and regional infrastructure in
setting up SBESV partnerships
• Works with frontline volunteer
involving organisations of all
sizes and types to recognise the
value of SBESV.
Overview of the Modernising Volunteering National Support
Services programme
In year one, Volunteering England commissioned Corporate Citizenship
to undertake research into existing levels of skills-based Employer
Supported Volunteering (SBESV) across the country. Research
demonstrated the substantial benefits of skills-based volunteering to
both employers and volunteer involving organisations (VIOs). However,
it found that the majority of activity was confined to large employers and
VIOs, and mostly in London. Research findings and recommendations
are documented in the report Forging Sustainable Partnerships
between Businesses and Communities.8
Acting on the research findings and recommendations from the year
one report, years two and three of the programme have seen a high
level of activity in planning, recruiting and setting up three SBESV pilot
brokerage services. The pilots were based at Darlington, Exeter and
Oxfordshire Volunteer Centres, within their respective CVS’, and
funded from July 2009 – September 2010.
Dedicated Local Business Partnership Coordinators were recruited at
each of the three Volunteer Centres. They manage the work locally and
are supported by an experienced national team, led by Volunteering
England and with mentoring support from Time & Talents for
Westminster at Volunteer Centre Westminster.

8
Braybrooks and Carter, 2007 (available via www.volunteering.org.uk/improvingsupport)

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 About the Time & Talents Network
The Time & Talents Network has been created to provide a common
brand and identity for the new SBESV pilot brokerage schemes. This
sits alongside their regional operating names: Time to InVOLve in
Darlington, Time & Talents Network Exeter and InVOLve in Oxfordshire.
The Time & Talents Network engages employers positively with the
community through the brokerage of innovative and sustainable
volunteering partnerships. It works by matching the skills and expertise
of employees with the needs of charities and community organisations.
Time & Talents Network pricing model
A pricing model has been developed for use across the three pilot
projects. Employer members are charged an annual fee to join the
schemes based on their number of employees. The membership fees
contribute towards the cost of funding the schemes.

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Project timeline
Inputs Outputs
Summer 2009

Support from • Modernising Volunteering National

Volunteering England Support Services team established
Modernising at Volunteering England
Volunteering National • Darlington, Exeter and Oxfordshire
Support Services team Volunteer Centres selected following
a rigorous application process
• Local Business Partnership
Coordinators recruited at each
Support from Volunteer Centre
Westminster Volunteer
Autumn 2009
Centre
• Local Business Partnership
Coordinators attend training at
Volunteering England
Regular steering group
• Employer membership package and
meetings pricing model developed
• Time & Talents Network brand
adopted

Conference calls • Local Business Partnership

Coordinators build employer and
volunteer involving organisation
databases

Network resources • Time to InVOLve, Time & Talents

Network Exeter and InVOLve hold
successful launch events

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 Inputs Outputs
Winter 2009 – Spring 2010

• Local Business Partnership

Support from Coordinators promote schemes to
Volunteering England local and national volunteer
Modernising involving organisations and
Volunteering National employers
Support Services team • Local Business Partnership
Coordinators develop volunteering
opportunities
Support from • Local Business Partnership
Westminster Volunteer Coordinators sign up first employers
Centre to paid membership schemes

Summer 2010

Regular steering group

• First volunteering activities
meetings underway including media skills
workshop, an educational garden
project and befriending
Conference calls
• Local Business Partnership
Coordinators continue to engage
with employers and recruit more
Network resources members to their schemes
• First Time & Talents e-newsletter
published

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Section 7

Time & Talents Network

– key achievements
 Time & Talents Network
– key achievements
With the Modernising Volunteering programme now in year three,
the Time & Talents Network pilot projects are well underway. Here,
we outline some of their key achievements so far.

Why should employers work more closely with local volunteering

infrastructure organisations?
In March 2010, senior managers
and staff from the Express & Echo
and SAV Media volunteered their
time and talents to provide a
media skills workshop set up by
Time & Talents Network Exeter.
TV presenter Mark Tyler and
Paul Nero from SAV Media
gave presentations and practical
interview techniques for broadcast
media while Andrew Howard,
Deputy Editor of the Express &
Echo, talked about printed media
and gave practical advice on
writing press releases.
Eleven charities were able to
benefit from expert advice and
training on the day, and its
success has led to requests for
more similar events.

The workshop was developed as “The afternoon was highly

a response to numerous requests
from local charitable and
community organisations that
were keen to develop skills to
help them to raise their profile
in the media.
effective, with excellent
practical tips and skills which
we can all take away and use.”
Dan Thompson,
The Ivy Project

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 Employees give time to create healthy eating allotment for
local school
In June 2010, time to inVOLve
Darlington celebrated national
Volunteers’ Week by organising
an educational gardening event,
bringing employers and voluntary
and community organisations
together to build an allotment for
a local school.
The school is located in the centre
of a busy town and some pupils do
not have access to a garden so
the allotment provided the whole
school with an opportunity to learn
about sustainable and healthy
food sources. It has also proved to
be an exciting ongoing task for the
school’s gardening club.
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The project was planned by
Groundwork Northeast, with help
from pupils and teachers. time to
inVOLve then helped to involve
employers within the town,
encouraging them to offer the
professional and wider life skills
of their employees to bring the
allotment to life.
The Department for Education and
the Darlington College Agricultural
Department took part on the day
and financial support was offered
by Darlington Borough Council
and Durham and Darlington NHS.
The day was a great success with
27 people taking part overall.
Plans have already been put in
place for Darlington College to
return to the school and use their
skills to construct a greenhouse.
Learnings since 1996
Back in 1996, five employers
decided that they wanted to work
in partnership with Volunteer
Centre Westminster to ensure that
their volunteering projects would
be both sustainable and strategic.
Before that, volunteering had been
on an ad-hoc basis, primarily
around Christmas and summer
challenges. There was a desire to
link up and pay greater attention to
local needs. The key learnings
remain as important today as they
were at the very beginning:
Charging and shared
responsibility: Each employer
takes a shared responsibility for
the Time & Talents for Westminster
partnership. By paying an annual
contribution to fund the small staff
team, there is a commitment to
and investment in addressing local
issues together.
Co-creation: The best projects
are usually those that have been
developed jointly, where all sides
have listened to one another and
have created something new
around specific needs and wants. 
Partnership ethos; leading &
learning together: Partners meet
regularly at events and forums to
openly discuss challenges, what
has worked well, case studies and
toolkits. This has resulted in a rich
peer-learning environment where
everyone learns more quickly.
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 Thoughts from our pilot projects

“The tools and resources “Launching the Time & Talents

provided by Volunteering Network in Exeter allowed me
England were invaluable to use skills and knowledge I
during the year we spent have developed through many
setting up the inVOLve years working across the
scheme in Oxfordshire.” private, public and voluntary
Grant Hayward, Local sectors. However, without the
Business Partnership on hand support, mentoring
Coordinator, OCVA, Oxford and practical advice offered
by Volunteering England and
my colleagues across the
“Working with Volunteering Time & Talents Network,
England and creating the Time setting up a new Employer
& Talents network has been a Supported Volunteering
fantastic experience and an brokerage scheme in Exeter
invaluable source of support would have taken considerably
and resource.” longer and would have
Mark Wilkes, Local Business presented even greater
Partnership Coordinator, challenges than those I
Evolution, Darlington have faced.”
Paul Simmons, Local
Business Partnership
Co-ordinator, Time &
Talents Network Exeter

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Section 8

Next steps - Employer Supported

Volunteering in your organisation
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 Next steps – Employer Supported
Volunteering in your organisation
Looking for more information on Employer Supported Volunteering?
The Volunteering England website has comprehensive information on
Employer Supported Volunteering (ESV), including a free guide for
Volunteer Centres. To find out more, visit: www.volunteering.org.uk
Interested in setting up a skills-based scheme?
There are many considerations to take into account when deciding
whether or not skills-based ESV brokerage could work for your
organisation. These include:
• Funding sources
• Business landscape – number, size, sector, demand. Would
employers in your area be prepared to pay?
• Existing ESV experience and expertise
• Capacity within your organisation
• Alignment with your wider organisational objectives
• The impact of other brokers operating in your area.
If you think there is a demand for skills-based ESV brokerage in your
area, please contact Volunteering England for more information
(see back cover).

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Useful links
Volunteering England
Volunteering England is committed to supporting, enabling and
celebrating volunteering in all its diversity. The website contains lots of
useful information, including a comprehensive Employer Supported
Volunteering section.
www.volunteering.org.uk
InVOLve
Skills-based Employer Supported Volunteering Brokerage scheme,
based at Oxfordshire Volunteer Centre.*
www.oxnet.org.uk/involve
Time & Talents Network Exeter
Skills-based Employer Supported Volunteering Brokerage scheme,
based at Volunteer Centre Exeter.*
www.timetalentexeter.org.uk
Time to inVOLve
Skills-based Employer Supported Volunteering Brokerage scheme,
based at Volunteer Centre Darlington.*
www.evolutiondarlington.com
Time & Talents for Westminster
Time & Talents for Westminster is a not-for-profit partnership working
with private, public and voluntary sector organisations to facilitate
Employer Supported Volunteering projects, with a particular focus on
skills-based and sustainable work.
www.ttw.org.uk

* These schemes are initially funded by Volunteering England, through the Modernising
Volunteering National Support Service.

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