Can businesses help?
Businesses want to help and already have helped numerous VCSE organisations across the North East. However we think there’s a bigger role for the local private sector to play in helping you through skills-sharing.
There are many ways in which businesses can support VCSE organisations but the most useful is to share their expertise with organisations that lack specific skills. For example, they could:
- Offer advice and support free of charge. This could include support with:
Strategic planning
Business planning
Leadership mentoring
Financial management
Property management
Human resources
Marketing and communications
Customer service
Computing
Health and safety
Risk assessment
Equality and diversity
Legal issues
in short, just about anything a high-performing business does on a daily basis. - Encourage staff to become trustees
- Offer direct support to beneficiaries of voluntary organisations e.g. helping with interview skills or CV-writing
- Make meeting rooms or spare places on in-house training schemes available to local community groups