City Action is a free matchmaking service for City-based companies and community organisations in the City and City fringe boroughs.
Run by the City of London Corporation since 1998, City Action's free service largely involves brokering volunteer placements but also includes offering City firms and community organisations practical advice in developing long-term partnerships, raising awareness about the need for skills volunteering in the City fringe through community tours and networking events, and helping to capacity grow community organisations through corporate volunteering.
We provide City-based companies and local community organisations with opportunities to share skills and experiences.
Bank of Montreal's Drop-in Session Success
City Action member, Bank of Montreal Financial Group, have 110 employees based in the City. The company wanted to develop a community project that could potentially involve all of their employees.
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Going head to head….
A volunteer from City Action member Astbury Marsden provides an insight into her experience of an employability session at a local school in Tower Hamlets.
read moreHelp to empower victims of cyberbullying
Peter Jones is the Digital Volunteers Manager at Beatbullying: Bullying is a malaise that affects us all. Practically everyone has had some experience of it, whether at school or work, as the victim, the witness or even as a bully. It is especially widespread amongst young people. Our research repeatedly indicates that 1 in 3 children [...]
read moreMy experience as a Corporate Responsibility Trainee
Shenelle spent nine weeks within the Corporate Responsibility team as a City Business Trainee, a scheme funded by the City of London and facilitated by local charity, the Brokerage Citylink. The scheme offers many talented young people from the City-fringe boroughs a unique opportunity to undertake a paid work placement after their A’levels within a City business. This is [...]
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