Get Involved
Businesses and volunteering
Businesses can get involved either by encouraging and helping their staff to volunteer or by offering the services of their organisation. For example, in youth justice, businesses could provide opportunities for reparation work by young people who have offended.
Programmes, known as employer supported volunteering, are being set up to help businesses and public sector organisations to support volunteer work by their employees, during work hours or in their own time.
Employer supported volunteering is a three-way partnership between the employer, employee and the receiver of these volunteers (e.g. a youth offending team).
Employers can benefit by contributing to their local communities, developing the skills and morale of their workforce and by improving their image.
Employees get the satisfaction of giving something back to society, develop new skills and enhance their existing ones, while having fun away from the daily work routine.
For more on employer supported volunteering see the Volunteering England website [opens in new window] or the Do It website [opens in new window].
You can also click for specific information, aimed at employers, on Youth Offender Panels.