Supporting Asylum Seekers and Refugees from Exclusion to Belonging
Over the last few years, refugees and people seeking asylum have regularly made the headlines. Headlines tend to be littered ... View Article
| Published: 14 March 2023
Dementia myth busters
Putting your keys in the fridge, getting lost on a familiar drive, or losing the thread of conversations is not called getting old. It’s called getting ill.
| Published: 15 September 2022
The DHL UK Foundation: helping young people to find a future in the workplace
The rate of long-term youth unemployment is cause for alarm in the UK. But the partnership between DHL, the world’s largest contract logistics provider, and the DHL UK Foundation aims to tackle it through a hands-on approach to skills development.
| Published: 17 December 2021
Can Social Entrepreneurship and CSR Be the Panacea for Ending Global Poverty?
The UN reports that 10% of the world’s population, or 734 million people, live on less than $1.90 a day.
| Published: 18 October 2021
Ethical business 0 Newcastle United 1
Customers and potential employees want ethical business not “sports-wash”.
| Published: 14 October 2021
Our Charity of the Season: Randal Charitable Foundation
HR Director’s Charity of the Season is the Randal Charitable Foundation, which has an aspiration to directly save over 1 million lives in the UK and globally. The Foundation was established by entrepreneur and philanthropist Dr Nik Kotecha OBE and his wife Moni in 2017. Its mission is to directly save and significantly improve people’s lives in the UK and globally by providing significant grant funding to charities and good causes that share the same ambitions.
| Published: 30 September 2021
Charitable Foundation Aspires to Directly Save 1 Million Lives Globally
Each day thousands of people needlessly perish because they had the misfortune to be born into poverty, or because basic health or mental health support is not available when they desperately need it.
| Published: 16 August 2021
Volunteering – Doing the right thing… because it’s the right thing to do
Giving your employees the opportunity to volunteer is good for them, good for business and good for your community. It boosts mental health, promotes well being, provides the perfect opportunity to enhance personal and professional development and makes an enormous contribution to the community you are working in. A study from Deloitte shows that volunteering not only helps others but improves morale in the workplace, promotes a better brand perception and can attract and retain the best talent who want to feel that their work environment is a caring one. Research by Legal and General, states that during the pandemic the number of volunteers has soared, with 1 in 5 adults volunteering their time for community activities since the start of the first lockdown. It makes good business sense to capitalise on the additional skills and experiences your employees have gained by volunteering and to give them the opportunity to continue to pursue these new interests.
| Published: 29 January 2021
A walk in the park… of a different kind!
For many companies, encouraging staff to participate in challenge events are an integral part of an employee engagement programme.
| Published: 22 December 2020
Charity partnerships: Good for business, good for people
The World Busines Council for Sustainable Development defines Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as “a continuing commitment by business to behave ethically and contribute to economic development while improving the quality of life of the workforce as well as the environment, local communities and wider society”.
| Published: 16 November 2020