Welcome to the new City Action blog, hosted by City Action, the City of London Corporation’s free employee volunteering broker service. This blog is an important, additional service for the many members of the business and charitable sectors who are working together on valuable programmes that benefit their local communities.
The City of London Corporation is committed to developing opportunities for City businesses to support the surrounding local communities that contain high levels of social and economic disadvantage. Worthwhile activities such as employee volunteering, gift in kind donations, local procurement and recruitment programmes are undertaken by many businesses – but there’s plenty of room for more involvement!
As an inclusive online service, this blog has the added benefit of reaching businesses and charities beyond the boundaries of the City. Whether you are a charity manager, a CSR professional, an employee volunteer or an individual who has benefited from a local programme, I encourage as many of you as possible to contribute a blog posting so we all can share and learn from your experience.
With your contributions, this blog will become a useful resource for anyone active in community involvement programmes – I hope to read your stories, understand your opinions or perhaps learn some ‘best practice’ tips over the coming months.
I am also looking forward to seeing many ‘hot topics’ covered such as the effect of the credit crunch on community involvement activities; the true value of employee volunteers to community organisations; and the increased focus on environmental issues within businesses and their Corporate Social Responsibility programmes.
So, it’s now over to you – with your help City Action is hoping to shape this blog into an informative, honest and open forum. To make the blog easily accessible it has a dedicated area within the City Action website as well as an RSS feed service - so there’s no excuse not to get involved!
