Sponsored by Eversheds, Business in the Community's (BiTC) annual employee volunteering event Give & Gain Day 2010 is dedicated to getting thousands of employees out of the workplace to volunteer their time in their local community. The event will see more than 6,000 volunteers from 200+ companies volunteering their time to help communities, injecting £1m man hours into community projects.
Eversheds employees from twelve countries across the world, from London through to South Africa will take part in activities to benefit their local communities. Over 350 Eversheds employees in total, including Chief Executive Bryan Hughes, will be out in the community completing close to 30 community projects.
In the London office, staff will be working alongside residents from a mental health scheme to complete a gardening project, which will see new plants bedded and the creation of a quiet area in which residents can relax and enjoy the garden. Consecutively, other staff from the London office will be running cookery classes at a Lambeth primary school with celebrity chef Rob Rees, as well as carrying out renovation projects and creating a science garden for a nursery school in Hackney. As part of the “Eversheds unlocked” programme, around 25 students from various schools in London will be invited to the Wood Street office, as part of a wider scheme to help young people from less privileged backgrounds get into a career in law.
Meanwhile, in the Eversheds’ Poland office, staff have been collecting books to help children affected by the recent floods. On the 9th July, the books will be transported to a library in Borki, one of the areas most damaged by the floods. The office will also be helping to rebuild the library which is attached to a local primary school.
Other activities being completed by Eversheds’ staff include a clothing donation project and the preparation of a meal for young homeless people by the Paris office, the construction of a vegetable garden for a children’s home by the South Africa office and the making of cheese in the Swiss mountains with underprivileged children with staff from the Switzerland office.
Bryan Hughes, Chief Executive of Eversheds comments:
"Businesses that take part in Give & Gain Day 2010 show that they are really committed to their communities, and give their employees the opportunity to have fun, feel good and help change lives for the better. Part of Eversheds ethos is to give back to the many communities around the world in which we live and work. We have a longstanding relationship with Business in the Community and are proud to be sponsoring Give & Gain Day again this year."
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