A new employer supported volunteering service will be introduced in 2015 exclusively for employees of Leeds City Council. Brendan Tannam will provide employees and managers with support to make the most of volunteering opportunities. The initiative will also encourage council employees to provide short term support to small local community organizations, offering professional skills like accounting, gardening, and grant writing that could greatly benefit these groups. Employees interested in offering a few hours of their time or skills can contact iVolunteerLeeds(a)leeds.gov.uk for more information.

1. i Volunteer Leeds
Latest news/1
In 2015 a unique partnership
between Leeds City Council and
Voluntary Action Leeds will see
the introduction of a new employer
supported volunteering service
exclusively for employees of Leeds
City Council. Brendan Tannam will
be starting work in January,
providing employees and managers
with a tailored service to support
them to make the most of the
opportunities afforded by
volunteering. Watch this space for
more details of how to contact him
and what help and support he can
offer.
Published
December
2014

2. i Volunteer Leeds
Latest news/2
A new volunteering initiative for
2015 sees Leeds City Council
encouraging employees to provide
short term support for the
smallest of our local community
organisations. Some of our most
vibrant and important local
organisations are small groups,
with little or no funding, who
make a HUGE difference to the lives
of local people. But they also
often lack access to some of the
most basic professional skills that
they need: perhaps, how to set up
an accounts system, what plants
will thrive on that wasteland they

3. i Volunteer Leeds
are turning into a community
garden, or how to write a successful
funding bid. And we have a Council
full of professional staff with all the
skills they could ever need and more.
From 2015 we will be asking
organisations to tell us what help we
might provide them for a few hours
only that would make a HUGE difference
to them making a HUGE difference for
local people. And we will be looking
for employees who are willing to offer
those few hours to help a small group.
If you would like more information, or
if you think that you have the sort
of skills someone might be looking for
and are willing to join a register of
staff who would consider such requests,
contact iVolunteerLeeds(a)leeds.gov.uk