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Connect Dacorum Corporate Social Responsibility. Presented by Jeoff Colls. Tips on getting help from Businesses. Nominate a person who will be a contact for the business Prepare a brief and easily handleable literature about what you want to do and how you want to do it.
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Connect DacorumCorporate Social Responsibility Presented by Jeoff Colls
Tips on getting help from Businesses • Nominate a person who will be a contact for the business • Prepare a brief and easily handleable literature about what you want to do and how you want to do it. • Be clear about what you want from the business i.e. support, funding, freebies, people to help you etc • When writing to a business always address to a named person. • Follow up your letter with a phone call a few days later. • Attend as many networking meetings as possible. • Contact the Corporate Social Responsibility project in your area; Connect Dacorum for the Dacorum area. There are similar projects in Stevenage, Waltham Cross and St Albans. • Business in the Community may be able to help. • Good luck and keep trying!
Ways You Can Help • Give a Gift – Raffle prizes, redundant office equipment and furniture, use of meeting rooms, etc.
More Examples of giving a gift • Ashridge College gives office furniture and equipment to 12 local charities • Premier Travel Inn donates a weekend for two as a raffle prize for Woodfield School PSA. • Grass Roots Group gives office chairs and tables to 3 local charities.
Giving Financial Donations Sponsorship, events, social evenings, employee and company donations. DCT will even take over your annual company donation workload.
More Examples of Financial Donations • Grass Roots Group sponsors the Paradise Furniture van. • BSI raise money through a dress down day to sponsor Woodfield School. • Dacorum Chamber of Commerce raise £500 from a raffle at their golf day tournament and donate it to Connect Dacorum.
Volunteering • Volunteering – Individual and company based volunteering opportunities. • Team Building Challenges
More Examples of Volunteering • Travis Perkins, Premier Travel Inn, and Wicks take up team build challenges with local charities. • Several Dacorum companies give their staff 1 to 5 days off per year to volunteer. • Senior employees of Pickworths, DSG International and Blue Touch Technologies become trustees of 3 local charities.
Employ a Disabled or Disadvantaged Person • Employ a disabled or disadvantaged person either full time , part time or on work experience.
More Examples of Employment of Disadvantaged persons • Blue Touch Technologies offer work experience to disadvantaged persons. • Job Centre Plus offers companies a 15 day work trial. • Apollo London give two apprenticeships to local lads.
Become More Environmentally Friendly • Recycle your office paper through the Apsley Paper Trail. • Be aware of savings to your companies utility bills and the environment.
More Environmental Opportunities • RES in Kings Langley promotes the ultimate in environmental efficiency. • Several Dacorum companies have achieved ISO14001 status. • Dacorum Green Business Club is there to help you become more environmentally friendly.
Offer Technical Support • Be proud of your excellence, offer your expertise in Marketing, IT, Law, Finance, etc to a start up company or to a local charity.
More Technical Support. • M & V Ltd of Boxmoor refurbish old IT equipment and then donate it to local charities.
What’s in it for You • Invitation to 4 free networking conferences per year. • 4 Newsletters per year. • Free promotion of your CSR activities. • Possible financial help for employing disadvantaged persons. • Improved staff moral, enhanced reputation and positive PR. • Offered first team build free plus others at £250. • Regular list of CSR opportunities within the community. • An opportunity to offer gifts and services to local charities. • Savings on Environmental issues.
Membership • The first year is free • The second and subsequent years are based on the number of full time employees that the company has working in the Dacorum area. • Subscriptions are paid to Community Action Dacorum (formerly DCVS) and hence are free of corporation tax.
Example:A company with 11 to 50 full time employees would pay £250 per year, which is £175 after tax and equivalent to just £15 per month.
Finally • Think about your social contribution • Would you like to do more ? • If the answer is yes, then join Connect Dacorum • Contact Jeoff Colls • on 01442 228216 or 07933 021115 or e-mail him on jeoff.colls@dacorum.gov.uk • or join on line at www.connectdacorum.org.uk