Get Involved
Volunteer
Set up and encourage a staff volunteering scheme. This will allow your staff to participate in a vast array of local opportunities, improving their moral and motivation. Volunteering can be in your own time or in company time like the very popular team building challenges.
Giving a Gift
Consider the product or service that your company provides and then try to link that to a local charity. Alternatively offer your redundant equipment or furniture to a good cause. Lastly offer the use of meeting or conference facilities for AGMs etc.
Financial Donations
Raise money through sponsorship, event days, social evenings, competitions, etc. Employee and company donations to a charity can be as large or small as is comfortable and are tax free. Connect South Essex will even take over your annual donation workload.
Employ Disabled/Disadvantaged
Instead of paying advertising and agency costs consider up-skilling an exisiting employee and employ a disabled or disadvantaged person either full time, part time or on a job trial or work experience basis.
Environmentally Friendly
Recycle your office paper, cardboard and printer cartridges. Adopt a car sharing scheme, be aware of savings to your company and the environment.
Tech Support
Be proud of your excellence, offer your expertise in marketing, IT, law finance, etc to a start up company or local charity.
Creative
Does your company have a design department or are you a creative industry that could offer assistance in the development of promotional and marketing materiel.
Examples: Leaflets, Postcards, brochures, banners etc.
Could you host a charitable or volunteers website?
Would you be able to offer advice, training or resources to people who are creating their own promotional material.
Or it may just be offering ideas or creative input on PR and marketing.
All of the above equals good CSR practise.