Corporate Volunteering
London 

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Volunteering Opportunities: London Based, Impactful, Flexible. Simple.

Find 1000’s of opportunities to volunteer in London: remote, local, for your community or for the planet, as a team or solo.

Flexible Volunteering Options

From Hackney to Hammersmith, work with grassroots organisations or nationwide charities to benefit your community.

Higher Employee Engagement

Teams that volunteer together feel more motivated, fulfilled, and engaged at work. Help your people find their purpose!

Trackable CSR & ESG Impact

Track and report on your company’s social and environmental contributions with real-time data on your impact dashboard.

Stronger Team Connections

Strengthen team bonds with hands-on volunteering that fosters collaboration, boosts morale, and creates a lasting impact.

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London Volunteering Days For Your Team

With OnHand, you can explore all the volunteering organisations London has to offer, from grassroots initiatives to global charities.

Tackle Isolation with Group Volunteering: London Needs Community Builders

Your people can support vulnerable and isolated individuals with a wide range of volunteering options. For starters, why not try:

  • Making cards for children in hospital

  • Running social events for older adults in the community

  • Taking part in companionship phonecalls

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Watch: Penguin Random House Get Creative with Cards for Bravery

 Penguin Random House hosted a team volunteering day in their London office with Cards for Bravery, creating handmade cards for children in hospital.

The team showed their support for sick children with this simple, in-office activity.

Environmental Volunteer Work: London Needs More Eco-Heroes

Take your team outdoors for an environmental impact day. Get stuck into hands on London-based volunteering activities like:

  • Community garden projects to enhance green spaces

  • Wildlife conservation to protect local ecosystems

  • Animal rescue and farm support

Watch: Domestic & General Work Wonders in Wimbledon

Domestic and General took a day to improve accessibility and compost quality at the Wimbledon Guild.

“It’s good to get our team together to something different and also to contribute to the community where we work.”

– Michael T, UK Warrant Finance Controller

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Make a direct impact by volunteering at local organisations tackling food insecurity and homelessness. Your team can:

  • Help at food banks, soup kitchens, and food drives

  • Support homeless shelters with donation sorting and meal prep

Organise company-wide fundraising and supply drives

Watch: Crown Agents Bank Serve Up Support in Euston

The team at Crown Agents Bank headed down to Food For All in Euston to pitch in with some food prep.

“What I’m hoping is through our own employees telling about their experience here, more and more people can know about Food for All and know about these things that help the community.”

– Charles Smith, AVP

Food Poverty Charity Work: London Needs Your Support

Packages For Hassle-Free Corporate Volunteering in London

With OnHand, you can get involved in all the volunteer jobs London has to offer. No matter what you’re after, we’ve got options to suit your organisation’s needs.

  1. Give Your Employees On-Demand Volunteering. Everywhere, Every Day.

Access the complete OnHand platform to get impact on demand. Use our app to find 1000s of on-demand opportunities. For solo volunteers or teams, remote or local, for every cause and charity you can think of.

It’s about more than just one-day volunteering; London charities need support year-round.

2. Book A Bundle of Team Volunteering Days

Book a bundle of team charity days that align with your organisation’s mission and values. Simply talk to the team and we’ll organise a series of team days. We’ll handle the logistics, so you can focus on making an impact.

Plus, we can film your team doing good, so you’ll have marketing-ready materials to prove your impact.

Live Volunteering Opportunities in London

Here are just a few of the incredible charities your team could volunteer with through OnHand:

  • The Choir with No Name (Hackney) is a joyful community choir for people who have experienced homelessness.

  • Stepney City Farm (Tower Hamlets) is a rural oasis in the city that needs volunteers to help with weeding, harvesting, mucking out and feeding.

  • City Harvest (Acton, Leyton, & Battersea) fights food insecurity and protects the planet by redistributing food to those who need it.

  • Food For All (Euston) distributes thousands of meals to vulnerable people every day – and it’s run completely by volunteers.

  • Blackfriars Settlement (Southwark) is a community organisation that helps people achieve their goals, improves physical and mental well-being, and boosts learning and development.

  • Meet Me At The Albany (Deptford) is an arts and social club for the over 65s that brings formerly isolated older people together to work with artists to learn or rediscover creative skills and make friends.

  • SCRUM Theatre (Hammersmith) is a theatre and education charity that takes over commercial spaces in London and turns them into community training hubs for emerging makers.

  • The Passage (Westminster) offer a huge range of services for those experiencing or at risk of homelessness in London.

  • Suited and Booted (Holborn) is a charity helping vulnerable, unemployed and low-income men get into employment by providing suitable interview clothing, interview advice and mentoring.

  • The Upper Room (Bedford Park) teaches people with convictions how to drive in exchange for voluntary work, as well as providing food and multilingual employment support to those who need it.

Dive into real-time reporting

We cover more than just volunteering. Track your teams’ impact and measure social value. See the number of charities you’ve helped, hours you’ve volunteered, and CO2e you’ve reduced.

OnHand - CSR Reporting - Your volunteering and sustainability action dashboard
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Key Product features

  • Corporate volunteering opportunities that your team’s care about. Also boost your sustainability activities with environmental pledges with tracked C02e reductions

  • Raise your employee volunteering rates with a gamified experience, including hero points, leaderboards, and tree-planting rewards. 

  • In-depth data reporting configured to what works best for your organisation. Set up teams based on department or location. Measure volunteering hours, charities helped, your community heroes, SDGs, and much more to achieve your CSR goals.

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