Corporate and Employee Volunteering

Developing your organisation's Corporate Social Responsibility portfolio is becoming a key priority for many companies.

Becoming a corporate sponsor of the Livingstone Tanzania Trust and assisting us on a specific project can provide an easy and instant way to improve your company's credentials in the eyes of employees, shareholders and the general public.

The Livingstone Tanzania Trust is actively seeking corporate sponsors to work with us alleviating poverty in rural Tanzania. 

We have a number of school or community based projects that your organisation can get involved in raising funds for and help realise the potential within the community.

We provide a very personalised service and work closely with our community partners in Tanzania and so can provide you with regular feedback.

We are happy to hold talks to your staff, senior management, directors and the wider public to explain the work you are supporting and why it is so important.

We can also work with you to develop the PR opportunities available to you through supporting a small, sustainable and effective charity. 

We actively encourage organisations topromote employee volunteering opportunities to their staff.

We can offer opportunities for staff to volunteering in the UK with fundraising ormarketing but can also provide the chance to put together a structured trip outto Tanzania, to allow staff to see first-hand where their donations have beenused and to work alongside the community they are partnered with.

We work with Inspire Worldwide(www.inspire-worldwide.com), a professional trip management organisation whoprovide safe, professionally managed trips for corporateteams to Africa. 

Inspire provide sessions on fundraising, teamwork,leadership and poverty and development to all staff taking part in a trip, aswell as comprehensive pre-departure training beforethey leave.

Inspire alsooffer a training and development programme. This includes sessions on teamwork,leadership, global cultures, communications and confidence building.

The themes from these sessions are then taken forward into an overseas tripitself, with regular debriefs and learning sessions for staff whilst they areoverseas.

Inspire then run a ‘return to work' programme, where staff are encouraged todevelop the experience they have gained from taking part in a community projectoverseas, and use these skills to put together their own UK based communityproject- either within the local community or the work environment.

For more infocontact beth@inspire-worldwide.comor call 01273 738558

"  just wanted to write a note to thank you for all the help, support and guidance that you gave to help make 'Project Africa'a reality. The feedback from all of those who went and from those who were involved in making it happen has been overwhelming. 

If I were planning a similar trip in the future I would look no further than Inspire, for your support and guidance. Your professionalism, knowledge and enthusiasm shine through and I know we are in safe hands when you're involved.'"

Nigel Crutchley,Director CLM Group Manufacturing, Royal Bank of Scotland

"I attended a training/orientation course run by Inspire and it was excellent. You could tell everything covered was based on personal experience which gave us great confidence in their advice. 

We left the day with a really good idea of what to expect, how best to cope with the new environmentand, importantly, what to do in emergencies. The team building exercises were also great fun and really helped us bond together as a group.'"

Tom Horne, Scott Wilson Millennium Schools Project

'Inspire were a tremendous help in planning the trip. With such a large group, there were a number of logistical and practical elements to consider, and they provided a fantastic level of support to the project team. Many thanks.'

Sheila MacDonald, Royal Bank of Scotland