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.
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.
read moreOriel Securities and Blackfriars Settlement
Oriel Securities, a corporate and institutional stockbroking and advisory firm with 55 employees, became a City Action member in 2009. The company made a decision to partner with a community organisation that they could support in a range of ways and approached City Action for assistance with sourcing a suitable partner.
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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