Employee Community Engagement
This Laboratory 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.
Did 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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Video: 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 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.
Find the full list of best practice case studies from the Skills for Employability laboratory plus information on the rest of the ENGAGE campaign.
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.
See Also . . .
- Read more on the Skills for Employability enhanced through Employee Community Engagement (ECE) Laboratory
- Over 100 company solutions on Skills & Competence Building in our CSR solutions database
- Visit the Toolkit at http://engagetoolkit.bitc.org.uk
Laboratory Leaders and Facilitators
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