Corporate volunteering with NCB

Thursday 11 June 2009

As part of its work to build and increase corporate support for NCB, the fundraising department has been busy researching volunteering opportunities from across its member organisations within the children and young people's sector.

The idea behind this initiative is that NCB will be able to offer more to its members and partners by recruiting corporate volunteers and enhancing the capacity of organisations, enabling them to increase the scope of their services.

NCB knows that corporate supporters increasingly want opportunities for their staff to be involved in hands-on activities that really help the communities they live or work in. As such, charities such as NCB need to offer a complete package to potential corporate supporters to enable them to have the chance to use their own skills and expertise to benefit third sector organisations that may be short on time or resources.

Supporters need reassurance that their valuable skills and time will contribute significantly to the capacity of the organisation that they volunteer to help, and that their efforts will be tremendously rewarding, both for them as an individual and for the organisation.

So far, the NCB fundraising team has identified a number of volunteering opportunities, ranging from one-off environmental and decorating project work, to longer term schemes, such as mentoring.

For more information, contact Dorothy Sang on dsang@ncb.org.uk