Corporate volunteering
made easy.
The corporate volunteering platform that empowers your team to find causes they care about. No admin, just impact.
Corporate volunteer opportunities to bring the team together.
Empower your teams to do good with different types of volunteering and smash your CSR targets.
1000s of
opportunities
Find 1000s of corporate volunteering opportunities across all types of volunteer work, wherever your team is based.
Save time sourcing activities
OnHand’s corporate volunteering platform saves you time, letting employees volunteer for the causes they care about.
Increase engagement with gamification
Improve engagement and activate your volunteering policy with gamified actions and employee leaderboards
Dive into real-time reporting
Track corporate volunteering back to CSR objectives and receive a real-time CSR report.
See Corporate Volunteering in Action
Watch Penguin Random House creating handmade cards for children in hospital during a team volunteering event with Cards for Bravery.
See what else OnHand has to offer: watch Natcap’s volunteering day at Hackney City Farm, or Domestic and General’s volunteer day at Wimbledon Guild Community Garden.
Types of Corporate Volunteering
The OnHand app contains 1000s of location-based global corporate volunteering opportunities.
Get your people participating: from skills-based volunteering to youth mentoring, community action to sustainability, and volunteer day solutions for the whole team.
Many of these corporate volunteer opportunities are micro-volunteering, which means it’s easy for your team to fit volunteering around their busy schedules.
Looking for meaningful corporate volunteering ideas? OnHand makes it easy for teams to give back with impactful missions.
Whether it’s supporting food banks, mentoring young people, tackling environmental challenges, or helping combat loneliness, there’s something for every company.
With flexible in-person and remote opportunities, employees can get involved in ways that suit them best. Want even more inspiration? Check out 15 Corporate Volunteering Examples for real-world ideas that businesses love.
Corporate Volunteering Ideas
OnHand was set up by 8 leading charities in the UK to make employee volunteering more accessible. That’s what makes us the best possible platform to run your corporate community programs.
Our app makes it easy for your business to engage teams with corporate volunteering wherever they are, facilitating businesses supporting charities, communities, and the climate — all on one volunteer management platform.
Support Charities Large and Small
Discover the biggest shifts shaping corporate volunteering, CSR, and ESG strategies in our 2025 Key Trends: Transforming Social Impact into Business Impact handbook .
Inside, you’ll find:
The growing demand for measurable impact over one-off initiatives
How AI and technology are transforming employee volunteering programs
Why employee-led action is now key to retention and brand trust
The rise of mandatory ESG regulations and how they impact corporate volunteering
Whether you're launching or scaling your program, this handbook has everything you need to make your strategy a success.
2025 Social Impact Trends
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Corporate volunteering opportunities that your team’s care about. Also boost your sustainability activities with environmental pledges with tracked C02e reductions
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Raise your employee volunteering rates with a gamified experience, including hero points, leaderboards, and tree-planting rewards.
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In-depth data reporting configured to what works best for your organisation. Set up teams based on department or location. Measure volunteering hours, charities helped, your community heroes, SDGs, and much more to achieve your CSR goals.
Key Product Features
G2’s Leader in CSR Software
FAQs
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Yes! The OnHand platform is available for corporate volunteering worldwide with opportunities for your employees to do good, wherever they might be based.
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To volunteer in person with vulnerable, elderly or young people a DBS check is required. This can be completed through the OnHand platform and is included in your employee subscription.
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Mirco-volunteering is the same as volunteering but typically broken down into small amounts of time, such as 30 mins or an hour, rather than a full day. This can dramatically increase employee engagement with corporate volunteering and your volunteering policy. Read more about micro-volunteering here.
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Absolutely! The OnHand app and platform uses location matching to showcase opportunities available in different areas so all your team can find opportunities to do good.
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As soon as you’ve signed, our team will be in touch to set up your organisation's dashboard and the steps to onboard. We will walk you through the steps to promote to your team and set up your dashboard.
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We have a range of free team missions to pick from on the OnHand platform. We can also help organise other volunteering charity team days with an add-on fee to your package.
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Yes! We recommend setting up volunteering teams so you can easily see your corporate volunteering and sustainability champions. This also can be used to encourage employee engagement through competitions.
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Yes! We have lots of ways to get involved in volunteering both in person and remotely. We encourage your employees to add grassroot charities and other opportunities to the platform so we can get more people doing good.
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Absolutely! If your workplace has already partnered with a charity we can add this to the platform and ring-fence it for your employees to see. They are also encouraged to add any volunteering that they are already doing to the app.
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Your team will get rewarded with trees being planted based on the activities they complete. For every member who signs-up we will plant a tree and then also plant additional trees for every 10 actions they take.
76%
of those who volunteer through work had more positive attitudes towards their employer.
United Healthcare
The Numbers
90%
of employees who work at a socially responsible company are more likely to recommend their employer to their network.
Porter Novelli
77%
of employees aren’t engaged at work, meaning only 23% of your workforce is engaged.
Gallup
91%
of companies that measured the connection between employee volunteering and employee engagement found a positive correlation between employee volunteering and employee engagement scores.
Boston School of Management
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