Impactful Volunteering,
Manchester 

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Corporate Volunteering: Manchester Based, Flexible, Impactful. Simple.

Find 1000’s of opportunities to volunteer in Manchester: remote, local, for your community or for the planet, as a team or solo.

Flexible Volunteering Options

From Salford to Stockport, support grassroots initiatives or partner with national charities to uplift local communities.

Higher Employee Engagement

Volunteering as a team boosts motivation, fulfillment, and workplace engagement. Help your people find purpose!

Measurable CSR & ESG Impact

Monitor and report on your company’s social and environmental contributions with live data on your dashboard.

Stronger Team Connections

Build stronger bonds through hands-on volunteering that encourages teamwork, lifts morale, and delivers real impact.

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Team Building: Manchester Opportunities

With OnHand, you can explore all the volunteering organisations London has to offer, from grassroots initiatives to global charities.

Tackle Isolation in Manchester: Volunteering to Build Community

Your people can support vulnerable and isolated individuals with a wide range of volunteering options. For starters, why not try:

  • Making cards for children in hospital

  • Running social events for older adults in the community

  • Taking part in companionship phonecalls

The team at Ipsum using coloured card, glue, and other crafting materials to make cards for sick children. Location: Chorley.

Watch: Ipsum Get Creative with Cards for Bravery

 Ipsum hosted a team volunteering day in their Chorley with Cards for Bravery, creating handmade cards for children in hospital.

The team showed their support for sick children with this simple, in-office activity.

Manchester Team Building: Activities For The Environment

Take your team outdoors for an environmental impact day. Get stuck into hands on Manchester-based volunteering activities like:

  • Community garden projects to enhance green spaces

  • Wildlife conservation to protect local ecosystems

  • Animal rescue and farm support

The team at Evolution Money smiling while holding coffees and wearing warm coats after a day volunteering at Manchester Urban Diggers

Make a direct impact by volunteering at local organisations tackling food insecurity and homelessness. Your team can:

  • Help at food banks, soup kitchens, and food drives

  • Support homeless shelters with donation sorting and meal prep

Organise company-wide fundraising and supply drives

The team at DF Capital sitting in a van full of food that they've collected for a donation drive in Manchester

Food Poverty Volunteering in Manchester

Packages For Your Team To Volunteer: Manchester Options

With OnHand, your team can get stuck into all the team activities Manchester has to offer – as well as solo volunteering, microvolunteering, and much more.

  1. Give Your Employees On-Demand Volunteering. Everywhere, Every Day.

Access the complete OnHand platform to get impact on demand. Use our app to find 1000s of on-demand opportunities. For solo volunteers or teams, remote or local, for every cause and charity you can think of.

It’s about more than just one-off volunteering: Manchester charities need support year-round.

2. Book A Bundle of Team Volunteering Days

Book a bundle of team charity days that align with your organisation’s mission and values. Simply talk to the team and we’ll organise a series of team days. We’ll handle the logistics, so you can focus on making an impact.

Plus, we can film your team doing good, so you’ll have marketing-ready materials to prove your impact.

Where your team can volunteer: Manchester opportunities for every cause

Here are just a few of the incredible charities where your team could do volunteering and team building in Manchester:

  • The Old Bank Cafe (Bolton) raises funds for Bolton Hospice by serving delicious cakes, sandwiches, and drinks.

  • Manchester Action on Street Health (Fairfield St) is a charity providing non-judgemental services to women working in the sex industry in Manchester.

  • The Society for Abandoned Animals (Stretford) is a local animal charity caring for and re-homing unwanted cats and rabbits – they would never allow a healthy animal to be put down!

  • Bread and Butter Thing (Trafford Park) uses mobile food clubs to take nutritious and affordable food into the heart of communities starved of money, food and resources.

  • Fortalice (Bolton) provides frontline services to people who have been affected by domestic abuse.

  • PROSPECTS Foundation (Hyndburn) engages local people in planting trees and regenerating existing woodlands in Hyndburn.

  • Pure Insight (Stockport & Salford) supports young people leaving the care system by providing tailored mentorship.

  • Manchester Dog Home (Harpurhey) re-homes stray and abandoned dogs and is always seeking more dog walkers!

  • Make A Smile helps brighten children’s lives – despite hardship, disability, or illness – by providing them with the opportunity to play and interact with their favourite characters

  • Mustard Tree (Ancoats) combats poverty and homelesness by providing food, furniture, clothing, education, twork placements, advocacy and creative clubs.

Dive into real-time reporting

We cover more than just volunteering. Track your teams’ impact and measure social value. See the number of charities you’ve helped, hours you’ve volunteered, and CO2e you’ve reduced.

OnHand - CSR Reporting - Your volunteering and sustainability action dashboard
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Key Product features

  • Corporate volunteering opportunities that your team’s care about. Also boost your sustainability activities with environmental pledges with tracked C02e reductions

  • Raise your employee volunteering rates with a gamified experience, including hero points, leaderboards, and tree-planting rewards. 

  • 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.

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