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The Cleft Lip and Palate Association (CLAPA) is a small, London-based charity working to improve the lives of people born with a cleft and their families in the United Kingdom. In the UK alone, 100 babies are born each month with a cleft lip and/or palate, a lifelong condition with a wide range of causes, issues and outcomes. The rollercoaster of coming to terms with a new d...

Can you tell us about The Katie Piper Foundation? In the UK, fires, acid attacks, explosions still happen all too often. Survivors of these receive outstanding emergency and acute care from the NHS. After discharge however, the scarring – physical and mental can leave people with severe limited movement, changed appearance and left feeling in despair, isolated and destroyed ...

Can you tell us about The Together Plan? The Together Plan was established in 2013, by two people who had developed a close relationship with the former Soviet Union and had spent many years close to the people understanding the challenges and the obstacles in developing communities. The Together Plan has spent four years working with communities in eastern Europe winning he...

It was incredibly generous of you and the team to give so much time to the volunteer project, what was your motivation to get involved? Without wanting to sound cliche, getting involved in this project gives us the opportunity to 'give something back'. We are colleagues and members of Southern Co-op, and Southern Co-op's sustainable business approach underpins a commitment t...

Please can you tell us a little about your background and HR career: I have an MA in History and started my career in sales and marketing in the pharmaceutical industry as a graduate trainee. After about 3 years, I moved into HR, initially specialising in recruitment before broadening out to take on HRD roles, for regional, ultimately global business areas. I started my HR c...

Can you tell us more about the charity? At Parks for London, we love London's parks and green spaces, and work with the people that manage, maintain and enjoy them, to keep them thriving, accessible, safe and beautiful spaces. Our vision is a London that is a healthy and sustainable world city; a place where parks and green spaces make a major contribution to the health and ...

Can you tell us about UK Harvest and the goals of the charity? UK Harvest is a for impact, food rescue organisation, which collects good perishable food from retailers and restaurants then delivers it free of charge to charities who support vulnerable people. We also run education programmes, working in partnership with schools, colleges, universities and vulnerable people o...

Please can you talk us through Macmillan at Work and your programme Macmillan at Work (MAW) is an offer which has been specifically designed for line managers and HR professionals to help them support employees affected by cancer to stay in and/or return to work. MAW offers expertise in workplace training, guidance and resources. By joining Macmillan at Work here, employers ...

HR professionals can add real value through volunteering in the Third Sector – My experience as a school governor. I have been a school governor for just over two years, and due to moving to a new house and away from the local area, I stepped down at the end of last term. This has given me a chance to reflect on the last couple of years and I really wanted to share my experi...

Can you give us a quick overview of BITC and the charities main objectives? BITC was created in 1982 in response to a period of social unrest, following the riots in Toxteth and Brixton. Businesses, convened by president HRH The Prince of Wales, agreed to take positive action to support local regeneration in economies impacted by business closures and growing inequality. Tod...