InVOLve
Skills Based Employer Supported Volunteering initiative
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What is Skills Based Employer Supported Volunteering?
It is a tailored volunteering scheme for employers to support their staff utilising their skills to help and support local voluntary and community groups.
What sort of skills can be utilised?
So many! These include marketing, PR, training, mentoring, accountancy, IT, fundraising, HR, law, compliance, strategic guidance, CV writing and interviewing - even personal skills relating to hobbies and interests.
These valuable skills can be used in many different ways within voluntary and community groups such as website design, publicity, acting as treasurers or simply updating accounts, developing strategy, mentoring and training, handling staff and compliance issues and even service delivery such as befriending, and many more...
For more details, download a copy of our leaflet by clicking here.
If you would like to contact Grant Hayward email grant.hayward@ocva.org.uk or call 07540 703363.
If you are an employee and would like more information about volunteering, click here
NEWS!
On the 29 June Grant Hayward attended the Oxfordshire Skills Fest. Grant was able to meet meet people from various businesses around the county and let them know about how they can benefit from ROBIN and inVOLve. The Skills Fest was also a platform to launch the researvch 'The Oxfordshire Workplace Learning Model. 50 learning specialists and business people contributed to the report, which announced that 'in a climate of cuts in public service, investment in training and skills should be focused on high growth business sectors and should start as early as primary school'. For more information or to download a copy of the report visit www.oep.org.uk.
Grant Hayward was recently interviewed live on BBC Radio Oxford by Louisa Hannan about inVOLve and skills based employer supported volunteering. To listen to this interview please click here.
A presentation delivered by Grant Hayward about the inVOLve project, will be uploaded here soon.
Press release:Thu, 29/04/2010 - 09:02
Oxfordshire companies get inVOLved with volunteering projects across the county
Oxfordshire, 29 April 2010: Five companies across Oxfordshire have been the first to sign up to the inVOLve project – an initiative across the county which helps to develop skills based employer supported volunteering. BOTTLE PR, Oxford Brookes University, Morgan Cole, Pear Tree Design, and Talkington Bates have all pledged time from staff to help local projects by sharing skills and expertise.
The inVOLve project, driven by ROBIN (Responsible Oxfordshire Business Involvement Network) and managed by Oxfordshire and Community Voluntary Action, has been launched to encourage local businesses to engage employees in essential skilled volunteer work. There is a vast range of innovative volunteering opportunities from advising and providing resources in areas such as marketing, PR and website design, to administrative support. The initiative utilises the volunteer’s personal skills and interests as well as professional expertise.
Grant Hayward, Local Business Partnership Coordinator for Oxfordshire said, “We are delighted that these employees have signed up to the inVOLve project. They represent a wide range of organisations in terms of size and sector, bring a huge variety of skills and expertise, and all recognise the benefits to their organisations, staff and the community as a whole. “Volunteering is now more than picking up litter in your local park but also uses your own interests and expertise to help charities and the local community.”
Michelle Montgomery, HR Team and Business Partnership Manager at Oxford Brookes University said: “Oxford Brookes is delighted to be part of inVOLve. It is in tune with Brookes' objective that staff and students engage in active global citizenship and offers staff the opportunity to use and develop their skills and talents in support of the local community.”
For more information about inVOLve, ROBIN or OCVA volunteering opportunities call 01865 251946
