Benefits

The benefits of board-level volunteering

For employers

· Raises corporate responsibility profile

· Provides a low-cost, flexible and effective means of professional development

· Enables employers to become “employers of choice

For employees

· Enables employees to increase and improve range of skills, specially “soft” skills

· Improves employees’ CVs

· Improves “work-life” balance

· Provides personal satisfaction

For the community

· Provides charities etc with board members with a high level of knowledge and expertise who can help organisations deal with the new and formidable challenges facing them

· Increases understanding between voluntary, private and public sectors

Why we are here
The purpose of today’s seminar is to raise awareness, amongst senior representatives of major employers, of employee board-level volunteering, and the benefits it brings for them, their employees and the community as a whole.

High-level strategic support will have a major impact on this initiative. It is therefore hoped that, as a result of this breakfast seminar, a significant number of senior representatives of major employers will influence their organisation’s strategy, to encourage employee board-level volunteering. Other employers will then follow their good example.

What we would like from you
As a result of this breakfast seminar, we aim to:-

· Deliver an increased number of seminars for employees

· Identify two or three major employers who would like to work with Getting on Board, to explore how to incorporate employee board-level volunteering as part of their CR and HR policies and procedures. These employers would then become models of good practice.

· Establish a small group of employers who will advise Getting on Board on how to develop this initiative and drive it forward in the private and public sectors across the UK.

· Secure the funding ( for staff, small office space in London, and running expenses) that will enable Getting on Board to deliver an effective brokerage service for potential volunteer board members.

What is Getting on Board

Getting on Board is a charity, with the object of encouraging employers to support their staff to volunteer as charity trustees, school governors or member of board of public bodies. It does this by informing employers of the benefits to them of employee board-level volunteering, delivering seminars to employees about the role of board-level volunteers and the benefits to them, and signposting potential volunteers to organisations that might be of interest to them.