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Connect Dacorum Corporate Social Responsibility

Connect Dacorum Corporate Social Responsibility. Presented by Jeoff Colls. Borough of Dacorum, Hertfordshire Includes Hemel Hempstead, Berkhamsted, Tring and villages Population 141,000 6,500 Businesses 800 Charities. Community Wheels. Paradise Furniture and Training.

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Connect Dacorum Corporate Social Responsibility

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  1. Connect DacorumCorporate Social Responsibility Presented by Jeoff Colls

  2. Borough of Dacorum, Hertfordshire • Includes Hemel Hempstead, Berkhamsted, Tring and villages • Population 141,000 • 6,500 Businesses • 800 Charities

  3. Community Wheels Paradise Furniture and Training Shopmobility Herts Interpreting Service Radio Dacorum Cultural Learning Project National Careers Service Connect Dacorum

  4. How to get support from businesses An Introduction to Corporate Social Responsibility

  5. What is Corporate Social Responsibility CSR, Corporate Citizenship, responsible business practice – whatever the definition consumers, investors, the community, staff, government and the media are becomingly increasingly concerned with the accountability of the corporate world and its effect on society

  6. CSR is nothing new • Businesses have supported community activity and wellbeing for many years • Cadbury Bourneville • Supporting School Summer Fetes • Providing Raffle Prizes • Sponsorship

  7. Tips on how to best benefit • Parallel thought process to preparing to apply to a funder – for example What do we want support for How can we demonstrate the case What are the costs we need to cover Prove we are fit to deliver

  8. Tips on how to best benefit But also you need to consider Why should the business support you over other competing good causes Is there a fit in terms of client group

  9. Tips on how to best benefit • Do you have a contact within the business you are approaching – cold calling equals low success • Does a member of your organisation work with the business you are approaching – use their knowledge to prepare your case e.g. research their business – operation, ethos and values – what have they supported in the past.

  10. Tips on how to best benefit • But most importantly….. What can you offer the business? You need a win – win scenario to increase your chance of success

  11. Tips on how to best benefit Examples of what you could offer…. • 1. Advertising in a programme • 2. Acknowledgement on letter heading, • newsletters etc • 3. If they have supported a physical • product a plaque or notice • 4. Employee Volunteering opportunities

  12. Tips on how to best benefit REMEMBER Any approach to business is built upon using common sense and maintaining an awareness of how to best use opportunity And most importantly – look to turn one-off support into an to ongoing relationship

  13. The Connect Way

  14. Ways You Can Help • Giving a Gift • Giving a Financial Donation • Volunteering • Employment of Disadvantaged Persons • Environment • Technical Help

  15. Giving a Gift Raffle prizes, redundant office equipment and furniture, use of meeting rooms, company product or service, etc.

  16. Blue Sheild Fire / Hospice of St Francis DBC / Apollo / Y.O.T. Total UK Ltd / Paradise Furniture & Community Wheels BAM Construcy / Woodfield School

  17. More Examples of giving a gift • Renewable Energy Systems gave four brand new colour laser printers & 24 PC’s to local charities. • Premier Inn donated a weekend for two as a raffle prize for Woodfield School PSA and also gave 70 duvets to DENS • Grass Roots Group gave office chairs, tables and environment saving devices to 3 local charities and hosted delegates from Hungary, Bulgaria, Latvia, Portugal and the UK.

  18. More Examples of giving a gift MBS Workplace Environments gave new office furniture to Relate, Mind, and Paradise Storax Racking Supplies gave a bottle of Port to each of six local charities plus racking to Tring Air Cadets, Iain Rennie Hospice and DENS. DSGI gave new computer equipment to Homestart Dacorum, six outdoor phones to Woodfield School, and various new items to a further six local charities. Many local companies donate fantastic raffle prizes for Connect Dacorum and many other charities

  19. In the Past year all of these companies have given gifts of a huge variety of itemsthrough Connect Dacorum.Assi Transport Ltd, Avalon flooring Ltd, BAM Contruct UL Ltd, Cobham Consulting Ltd, Demon Creative Ltd, EIC Insurance Services, Equilibrium Holistic Health, Esporta, Evidian Ltd , FFEI Ltd, Grass Roots Group, Hillier Hopkins, H.H.Community Church, Innergym Ltd, Journey Therapy Ltd, K M Design Ltd, Kodak Ltd, Kris Gruber Photography, K K Law , MBS Workplace Environments, NFU Mutual, Pendley Manor Hotel, Pictons Solicitors, Pickworths Solicitors, Real World Consulting, RES Ltd, Shendish Manor Hotel, Serene Beauty and Spa , Snow Centre, Stage Two Ltd, Storax Racking Supplies, SWR Ltd, The Hemel Gazette, Total UK Ltd , U-Print Ltd, Urban Precinct , Viva Business Networking, Watford FC Trust.

  20. Giving Financial Donations Sponsorship, events, social evenings, employee and company donations. DCT will even take over your annual company donation workload.

  21. Vinci Park / Bike Doctor Grass Roots Group / Paradise Furniture & Training Epson / Community Wheels

  22. William Sutton Homes / Stags Pizza Express / Dacorum Community Trust Barclays / British Red Cross Barclays / Volunteer Centre Dacorum

  23. More Examples of Financial Donations • Grass Roots Group, Hillier Hopkins LLP, Pendley Manor Hotel, Shendish Manor Hotel, DBC, NGK Spark Plugs, BP and the Hemel Gazette have all sponsored the Connect Dacorum / Dacorum Community Trust’s Christmas Lunch. • Epson UK have sponsored one of the Shopmobility wheelchairs. • The Dacorum Dragons Apprentice Challenge has five schools turning £100 into £1000+ for local charities supported by local businesses.

  24. Volunteering • Volunteering – Individual and company based volunteering opportunities. • Team Building Challenges

  25. Holiday Inn / Woodfield HSBC/ Iain Rennie Speed Volunteering

  26. BAM Construct / Boxmoor Trust Wicks / Chaulden CC Keystone Distribution / Bovingdon Scouts Eckoh Ltd / Woodfield School

  27. More Examples of Volunteering • Adeyfield School have completed five challenges from local charities for their Citizenship programme for three years running. • Several Dacorum companies give their staff 1 to 5 days off per year to volunteer. • Senior employees of local companies have become trustees of local charities.

  28. Employ a Disabled or Disadvantaged Person • Employ a disabled or disadvantaged person either full time , part time or on work experience.

  29. Freshbins Ltd / Drug Link / JC+

  30. More Examples of Employment of Disadvantaged persons Kings Langley School gave Barry the opportunity of a 15 day work trial in their Premises Department. They were so pleased with his work that Barry was offered a 30 hrs a week paid position.

  31. More Examples of Employment of Disadvantaged persons 20 local companies have offered one day work trials to Passport To Go clients. Many have already completed a very successful day and some have led on to bigger things. AFCC Ltd in Queensway have employed a full time Office Administrator and a part time cleaner, both through Connect Dacorum.

  32. 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.

  33. More Environmental Opportunities • RES in Kings Langley promotes the ultimate in environmental efficiency. • Several Dacorum companies have achieved ISO14001 status. • Keystone Distribution fuel all their large fleet of lorries with used chip fat from MacDonald's restaurants.

  34. 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.

  35. Vertical Limit Ltd / Age Concern

  36. More Technical Support. Michael Leach of Leadership Management UK Ltd gave a half day talk on Personal Effectiveness to staff at Age Concern, Homestart, Groundwork Herts, RBLI and Gaddesden Place RDA. The British Red Cross gave a First Aid Course to the staff and volunteers of several local charities. Many employees from local companies have added their names to a Skill Bank register to give free assistance to local charities in Marketing, Finance, Law, IT and many more subjects when needed.

  37. What’s in it for You • Invitations to 3 free networking conferences per year plus a special Christmas Lunch. • 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. • Regular list of CSR opportunities within the community. • An opportunity to offer gifts and services to local charities. • Savings on Environmental issues. • Your logo and website featured on the Connect Dacorum website.

  38. 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 and surrounding area. • Subscriptions are paid to Community Action Dacorum (formerly DCVS)

  39. Example: A company with 1 to 10 full time employees would pay just £100 per year for the second year onwards.A company with 11 to 50 full time employeeswould pay just £250 per year for the second year onwards.

  40. 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

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