Corporate Volunteering

There are several ways that businesses can get involved in volunteering in Rushmoor, either for their CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) group days or through ESV (Employer Supported Volunteering) for individuals. We also encourage your employees to consider regular volunteering roles or becoming Trustees or Governors to share their professional skills.

We also recommend looking at the NCVO website for more information about Employer Supported Volunteering Employer-supported volunteering | NCVO.

Ideas for CSR Days (for groups of volunteers) 

• We recommend that you contact CMP who specialise in these sorts of volunteering days in the Rushmoor area – Corporate Volunteering Events with CMP (communitymatterspartnership.org.uk) 
• There are occasional CSR opportunities on our Volunteer North Hampshire website, for example: Opportunity – Volunteer North Hampshire (volunteernorthhants.org) 
• Basingstoke Canal can sometimes host groups, particularly in the autumn and winter –Volunteering – The Basingstoke Canal Society (basingstoke-canal.org.uk) 
• Most large charities will be able to offer a CSR day, for example: TCV conservation volunteers – Corporate Volunteering with TCV | Make a Difference to Communities 

Ideas for ESV (for individual volunteers) 

RVS Responder – there are opportunities to volunteer at one-off community events throughout the year. Opportunities could be a music festival, a Remembrance service, a summer fete, sports events, arts activities, litter picks, Christmas event or conservation day. For more information, click here 

The Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal – the appeal is in the autumn but they sign up volunteers all year round. Please contact Sarah Ferris for more information: sferris@britishlegion.org.uk 

Litter Picking – Organise your own litter picking activity Join the UK’s largest litter-picking community | Keep Britain Tidy (note that you need to organise landowner permission). There are also the local council litter picking events which are promoted on social media.  

Conservation and environmental tasks – there are regular work parties through the following organisations:

• Rowhill Nature Reserve – Visit woodland and outdoors in Aldershot (rowhillnaturereserve.org) 
• Brickfields Country Park – Brickfields Country Park, possibly the smallest Country Park in the UK (brickfieldspark.org)
• Queen Elizabeth Park – Friends of Queen Elizabeth Park – Home 
• Cove Brook Greenway – Welcome to Cove Brook Greenway Group – Cove Brook Greenway Group 
• Tice’s Meadow – Tice’s Meadow (ticesmeadow.org) 
• Southwood Country Park – – Southwood country park Volunteer Rangers for 14yrs+ – localfamily.events 
• Wellesley Woodlands – https://wellesleywoodlands.co.uk/  
• Basingstoke Canal Society – Volunteering – The Basingstoke Canal Society (basingstoke-canal.org.uk)
• The Blackwater Valley Countryside Partnership carry out regular volunteering tasks throughout the area. No previous experience is required. Please email: blackwater.valley@hants.gov.uk 
• Environmental Ambassadors for projects or events that support the environment and local community (including litter picking) – Environmental ambassadors – Rushmoor Borough Council 

Share Your Skills  

We also recommend that your employees contact local charities that they’re interested in as they could volunteer to share their skills such as marketing, IT, fundraising, graphic design, PR, events, finance, project management etc. For a list of local organisations that may benefit from these skills on a regular basis, please see the Rushmoor Link directory – Find local support in Rushmoor – Rushmoor Link 

Trustee and Governor Roles 

Your employees could consider Trustee roles to share their professional skills. They can look at the Volunteer North Hampshire website – or again they could contact local charities or schools that interest them to offer their time. Getting on Board provide free online training if your employees are interested in finding out more about being a trustee (these free courses run regularly): Trustee Learning Programme | Getting on Board  

Regular Volunteering 

If your employees would like to give something back to the community on a more regular basis, we offer regular volunteering (weekly, fortnightly or monthly) via our Volunteer North Hampshire website. There are plenty of flexible roles that can be done at the weekends and evenings, or from home at a time to suit them:  https://www.volunteernorthhants.org/ 

If you have any further queries, please don’t hesitate to contact the RVS Volunteer Team – volunteering@rvs.org.uk