Businesses with an office based in the Square Mile of the City
can become a member of City Action. City Action solely facilitates skills-based employee volunteering and does not facilitate team challenge activities.
Joining City Action's free membership service offers a wide
range of benefits:
- A dedicated Account Manager
for practical advice and ongoing support - A bespoke volunteer matchmaking service (for businesses with little or no dedicated resource for managing volunteering activity only)
aligns your business's values to volunteering - Exclusive access to our online volunteering database
a wide range of exciting options - Access to a volunteering partnership brokering service
enables longer-term and sustainable relationships with community organisations - Monitoring and evaluation of volunteer placements
ensures a quality experience for all - Free networking events
linking you to the responsible business community
City Action has a principle responsibility of supporting Small and Medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and businesses that have little or no internal resource for managing volunteering activity.
For businesses with dedicated Community Engagement staff, City Action will work solely on brokering longer-term partnerships and not ad-hoc activities.
Why should businesses get involved in the community?
City Action supports a wide range of businesses ranging from SME's to large corporations with their volunteering programmes.
Click here to view our current business members list >>
Our members have found many business rewards when supporting the local community:
- Fostering talent
improved employee retention and recruitment - Increased staff morale
the 'feel good' factor - Employee development
improved personal and professional skills - Better reputation and credibility
amongst community and clients
Liquidnet & Sotheby Mews Day Centre
Liquidnet Europe Limited, a small asset management business, joined City Action following attendance on a Community Tour to Islington in June 2010. One of the community organisations visited was Age Concern Islington’s Sotheby Mews Day Centre, with whom Liquidnet have chosen to support a variety of social events for local older people.
Colt and Friendship Works
Colt have been building their CSR programme from scratch since 2009. Selecting a charity partner was one aspect of setting up their community programme - the other aspect was introducing an employee volunteering policy which they introduced at the end of 2009. Colt operates in 14 countries and in 2009 each country was asked to work with its employees to select a charity partner for the next two years.
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