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The success of our HR Volunteer Network demonstrated the need to find a strategic partner to enable us to work with even more charities and offer even more opportunities to our HR Volunteers. We’re therefore delighted to be partnering with Reach Volunteering, the UK’s leading skills-based volunteering charity and the single biggest source of trustees for the voluntary sector...

Have you ever wondered about the impact of giving your time and professional skills has on an organisation? The answer is plenty. In this interview Susannah Drury (Director of Policy, Research and People at Missing People) discusses the synergy between the corporate and charity sectors, as well as the positive impact a Volunteer Mentor is having on learning and development a...

Volunteering is a great way to improve your skillset, get involved in your wider community and truly make an impact. Here at Frazer Jones, we are committed to facilitating skills-based volunteering and our HR Volunteer Network connects HR professionals within our network to charities looking for expert support. Recently, we connected Lloyd Stephenson (Head of Resourcing at A...

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...