Help from Home

Change The World From Just Your Office

Discover office based microvolunteering activities that have a measurable and meaningful impact for worthy causes around the world. Choose between our ‘Lunch Break’, ‘One Hour Taster’ or ‘Two Hour Go For Good’ packages, all without leaving the comfort of your favourite chair in your favourite office! It doesn’t get any easier than this to do some good and we don’t charge a penny for it! Now that’s refreshing!

We’ve provided a free downloadable ‘Introduction to Microvolunteering’ brochure – click above image. Why not use it as a handout to individuals, as a discussion point at meetings or just left at a suitable location for people to browse through.

If you’re concerned about what the factors are we use to determine the suitability of an organisation, action or worthy cause to be included on our database, then please click on the preceding links for more information. We think you’ll be pleasantly reassured!

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Employers

Show the world you’ve got attitude – that’s CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) attitude. Give an hour or two out of your employees workday to participate in some micro actions that provide a clear benefit for the wider community at large. Improves company image and can help to reinforce brand loyalty!

Participating in microvolunteering actions can also contribute to your employees’ personal development skills. Don’t believe us? Well click on the button below, where you’ll find simple actions that can contribute to an employees skill set.

Employees

Make a measurable impact – with the world and your boss. The more good you do, the more respect you’ll get! Develop new skills and enhance existing ones. Offers the satisfaction of ‘giving back’ to society.

All the above schemes are self running – all an employer has to do is to direct an employee to each scheme’s webpage and let the employee decide which action they would like to participate in, within each slot.

Participation rates for each action can be recorded at a very basic level, for possible inclusion within a CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) report.
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Volunteering boosts morale, improves staff retention and helps staff to develop as individuals, bringing their new found skills, confidence and enthusiasm back into the workplace. It may even increase productivity and make for a happier workforce!
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Other positive benefits unique to microvolunteering are:
- turn unproductive slack periods into productive ‘CSR’ earning value
- employees don’t have to leave the office, away from the phones
- no CRB checks required
- no training or particular skills needed

Participation in microvolunteering creates impact in the wider world out there. For actions that in of itself would seem as though they are not contributing anything worthwhile, you’d be surprised what they’re actually achieving. We have compiled a widely read report into this subject ‘Microvolunteering: Evidence of Impact’. See if it don’t raise your eyebrows!!

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Has ‘Help From Work’ helped any organisations?

Volunteering Works – Microvolunteering actions from HFH included in vinspired’s Volunteering Works employee volunteering platform.

Whitbread – promotes HFH as part of it’s CSR programme, called ‘Good Together’

Better Bankside – promotes HFH to the 300 firms within the Business Improvement District it oversees

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Feedback

We are grateful for any feedback, constructive or otherwise (but preferably constructive) on any aspect on the Help From Work project!

Let us know if you’re participating in the Employee Volunteering scheme, so that we can advertise your firm for free and show to prospective customers that you’re commitment to benefiting others.

Take a look at some of the organisations who have promoted microvolunteering here – you’ll be in good company!

Just use the Contact Us page to let us know your thoughts.

We’re also after your opinions on microvolunteering in an employee environment. We’d be very grateful if you could please complete our short survey:

- 7 multiple choice questions
- 2 minutes max to complete
- Answers are completely anonymous

The Last Word

Help From Work is a subsidiary project of the Help From Home initiative. It’s soul aim is to encourage and inspire office workers to discover that they can volunteer their time for the benefit of others without leaving their workplace. This will hopefully instil a sense of altruism and may lead to participation in more traditional volunteering activities.