Employee Community Engagement

CSR Europe's Toolbox - Human CapitalDid you know?

  • In 2001 the City of London received £283 million in community support from the corporate sector, including 71,000 person-days. Half of the companies surveyed (approx. 500) said improved employee morale was the greatest benefit of their community-support activities
  • Employee community engagement programmes can help to build on the basic skills which underpin employability, such as literacy and numeracy
  • Employee community engagement programmes help a range of groups targeted by the Growth and Jobs strategy

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Maria-José Subiela from Business in the Community/ENGAGE and Bea Malleson from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer present the CSR Laboratory on Skills for Employability Enhanced Through Employee Community Engagement

Skills for Employability Enhanced Through Employee Community Engagement

KPMG, Citi and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, with support from BITC/ENGAGE, have brought together organisations from across the UK and continental Europe to explore and demonstrate the value of employee community engagement (ECE) in terms of improving employability skills and competencies among disadvantaged and socially excluded groups.

Get Equipped

Get EngagedGet Engaged (PDF)

The leaflet presents the work of the Laboratory project which aims to highlight the important role that employee community engagement and volunteering plays in enhancing the employability skills of communities throughout Europe.

ENGAGE

ENGAGEyouremployees.org

The website hosts the findings and recommendations of the Laboratory, best practice case studies, as well as guidance on how to develop your own employee community engagement programme.

  

 Skills for employability Report (PDF)

This research project and report aims to highlight the important role that employee community engagement plays in enhancing the employability skills of communities throughout Europe.

Case Studies

The webpage contains links to Case Studies collect by the Skills for Employability enhanced through Employee Community Engagement Laboratory.

Toolkit

The Toolkit aims to provide help in developing or enhancing an employee community engagement programme. The Toolkit contains information on the fundamentals of such a strategy as well as how to plan and evaluate the programme.

See Also . . .

Laboratory Leaders and Facilitators

Citi KPMG Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
 BITC  ENGAGE