Corporate volunteering
made easy.
Corporate volunteering your people will love!
Empower your teams to do good with different types of volunteering and smash your CSR targets.
1000s of
opportunities
Find 1000s of corporate volunteering opportunities across all types of volunteer work, wherever your team is based.
Save time sourcing activities
Save time sourcing volunteering activities and let employees volunteer for the causes they care about.
Increase engagement with gamification
Increase employee engagement with your volunteering policy with gamified actions & leaderboards
Dive into real-time reporting
Track corporate volunteering back to CSR objectives and receive a real-time CSR report.
Types of corporate volunteering
The OnHand app contains 1000s of location-based global corporate volunteering opportunities.
Your people can get involved in everything from skilled volunteering and youth mentoring, to community action, sustainability activities, and even volunteer day ideas for the whole team.
Many of these opportunities are micro-volunteering, which means it’s easy for your people to fit volunteering around their busy schedules.
Support charities large and small
OnHand was set up by 8 leading charities in the UK to make employee volunteering more accessible.
Our app makes it easy for your business to engage teams with corporate volunteering wherever they are, facilitating businesses supporting charities, communities, and the climate — all on one volunteer management platform.
Key Product features
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Corporate volunteering opportunities that your team’s care about. Also boost your sustainability activities with environmental pledges with tracked C02e reductions
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Raise your employee volunteering rates with a gamified experience, including hero points, leaderboards, and tree-planting rewards.
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In-depth data reporting configured to what works best for your organisation. Set up teams based on department or location. Measure volunteering hours, charities helped, your community heroes, SDGs, and much more to achieve your CSR goals.
G2’s Leader in CSR Software
FAQs
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Yes! The OnHand platform is available for corporate volunteering worldwide with opportunities for your employees to do good, wherever they might be based.
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To volunteer in person with vulnerable, elderly or young people a DBS check is required. This can be completed through the OnHand platform and is included in your employee subscription.
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Mirco-volunteering is the same as volunteering but typically broken down into small amounts of time, such as 30 mins or an hour, rather than a full day. This can dramatically increase employee engagement with corporate volunteering and your volunteering policy. Read more about micro-volunteering here.
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Absolutely! The OnHand app and platform uses location matching to showcase opportunities available in different areas so all your team can find opportunities to do good.
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As soon as you’ve signed, our team will be in touch to set up your organisation's dashboard and the steps to onboard. We will walk you through the steps to promote to your team and set up your dashboard.
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We have a range of free team missions to pick from on the OnHand platform. We can also help organise other volunteering charity team days with an add-on fee to your package.
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Yes! We recommend setting up volunteering teams so you can easily see your corporate volunteering and sustainability champions. This also can be used to encourage employee engagement through competitions.
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The enhanced DBS check is only needed for those who participate in in-person volunteering missions. These are needed when helping elderly, vulnerable, or young people.
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Yes, this is covered in your annual subscription.
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Yes! We have lots of ways to get involved in volunteering both in person and remotely. We encourage your employees to add grassroot charities and other opportunities to the platform so we can get more people doing good.
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Absolutely! If your workplace has already partnered with a charity we can add this to the platform and ring-fence it for your employees to see. They are also encouraged to add any volunteering that they are already doing to the app.
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Your team will get rewarded with trees being planted based on the activities they complete. For every member who signs-up we will plant a tree and then also plant additional trees for every 10 actions they take.
76%
of those who volunteer through work had more positive attitudes towards their employer.
United Healthcare
90%
of employees who work at a socially responsible company are more likely to recommend their employer to their network.
Porter Novelli
77%
of employees aren’t engaged at work, meaning only 23% of your workforce is engaged.
Gallup
91%
of companies that measured the connection between employee volunteering and employee engagement found a positive correlation between employee volunteering and employee engagement scores.
Boston School of Management
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