In past years, employee teams across the country volunteered in their local areas, demonstrating the active role which businesses play in their local communities.

Who got involved?

• Lloyds TSB staff from the north got their hands dirty on a two day project at Monteney Primary School in Sheffield. They created a community garden, complete with a sensory space, study area, mini beast patch and pond.

• Staff from Disney created a whole new garden for a resident with the Notting Hill Housing Association. Employee volunteers cleared brambles and weeds and then laid down a new path, created a number of flower beds and laid gravel in order to make the garden a pleasant and safe environment.

• A team from Tridos Bank in Bristol helped out at a project with Yatton & Congresbury Wildlife Action Group, The Living Churchyard and Hooray for Hedges. They assisted in a conservation activity at St Marys Churchard helping maintain essential hedges across two sites.

• Employees from Vertex got involved in a large number of activities in a number of their offices across the UK. Volunteers collected and donated items for local homeless shelters, donated blood, made and donated cakes to local community groups, and assisted at a project with Riding for the Disabled Association in Cheltenham.

• Volunteers from Yorkshire Water undertook a number of activities in their local area. These included developing the play area at a local primary school and rejuvinating a woodland area, planting a blue bell wood and a wildflower meadow.

• At KPMG staff were involved internationally too! In Switzerland employees spent the day mentoring vulnerable young people. They delivered workshops on how to write a CV, how to speak and preparing to a job interview and coached young people on valuable skills relating to working life.

If these ideas have inspired you and you'd like to take part in next year's campaign why not get in touch? You can follow the link below to make an enquiry for a employee team activity, and we'll find the perfect project for you!

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