Corporate Volunteering obviously benefits Willow Wood. But it also benefits your staff, giving them the opportunity to connect with their local community, to build team dynamics and staff morale, and to make a positive difference to the lives of our patients and their families.

FIVE BENEFITS OF CORPORATE VOLUNTEERING WITH WILLOW WOOD

Increases employee motivation

Positive impact to local community

Enhances employee skills and self-confidence

Improves team building and communication

Supports and delivers CSR objectives

And of course, corporate volunteering can help to raise your company profile by being associated with a much-loved local charity.

Obviously, the pandemic has impacted on corporate volunteering.

However, we are now able to offer work in our gardens for groups of up to 20 and groups of up to 8 or 15 to support our work in our shops and our distribution centre respectively. There are also opportunities within our fundraising department.

Having a team of enthusiastic corporate volunteers in these areas helps us immensely. They can do in one day what our volunteers would take weeks to achieve.

And they can easily see that they have made a real difference to us, to our patients and to their families.