Employee skills volunteering
Match professional expertise with well-scoped charity needs, individually or as a team.
Skills that solve real problems
Employers & corporate volunteering
Build on Reach’s corporate volunteering offer.
Reach already helps employers connect staff skills with charities and board opportunities. This concept expands that into a clearer programme platform for skills volunteering, mentoring, accessible experience and measurable progression.
Build on an existing strength
Professional skills can do more than fill a volunteering day.
Employers bring people, expertise and sponsorship. Reach brings trusted charity relationships, opportunity matching and the infrastructure to make participation useful on both sides.
Skills sprints
Time-boxed team projects with a clear brief, charity owner, outcome and completion record.
Focused, measurable projectsMentoring & placements
Use employee experience to help people build confidence, networks and a route towards paid work.
Extend Reach’s social impactProposed extension
Accessible experience should be designed deliberately.
The employer pathway can support people who benefit from flexible, remote or low-meeting environments without converting commercial work into indefinite unpaid labour.
Accessible placements
Offer a defined placement with a named mentor, agreed outcome and practical working preferences. Participants know what they are there to learn and the employer knows what support it has committed to provide.
Remote friendlyFlexible hoursLow meeting loadAsync communicationNamed mentor
The destination is progression.
Where a genuine commercial role exists, the route should move towards paid work. Reach should never become a mechanism for businesses to use disabled or unemployed people as a permanent source of free labour.
Why an employer pays
Buy programme infrastructure, not access to free labour.
A credible corporate offer needs clear deliverables: campaign setup, matching, cohort support, accessibility, reporting and partner outcomes.
Programme setup
Branded cohort, opportunity curation, employee onboarding and clear participation guidance.
Matching & support
Skills matching, mentoring coordination, accessible working preferences and escalation routes.
Outcome reporting
Skills hours, charities supported, projects completed, progression and partner attribution.
Sponsor small-charity access
An employer can fund memberships or programme places for grassroots organisations rather than only funding its own employee activity.
Fund a pathway
Support a region, cause or Build Experience cohort while Reach keeps participant access free.
Employer programme dashboard
Make social impact reportable without turning it into theatre.
Employers can see activity across their programme while charities retain ownership of the real-world outcomes.
Skills hours684This quarter
Projects completed37Across 22 charities
Progression8Mentoring placement
Illustrative dashboard data only.
Employers can fund infrastructure as well as participation.
A company could sponsor a cohort, a region, an inclusion pathway or access for small charities, covering programme support and platform costs while participation remains free to individuals.
Charge for programme support and outcomes.
Corporate income can pay for coordination, reporting, integrations and programme design. The value is the infrastructure and support, not ownership of volunteers.