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