East London Business Alliance builds the connection between businesses and local communities, bringing the time, skills and resources of the private sector, to help build the capacity of local organisations, support young people in education and place people into employment in London. ELBA makes community investment easier, more effective and more rewarding, whether through face-to-face activity or online.
ELBA finds creative, ingenious and impactful ways to support local communities. Each year over 12,000 people from business give back to local communities through ELBA, using their skills, time, ideas and commitment to help in a very wide range of activities. Everything they do is needed in the local community and will have an impact.
Each year, ELBA places hundreds of people into work in London through our award-winning employment programme, delivers over 12,000 business volunteers into the community, and works with over 200 local organisations in East London and beyond.
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A successful ELBA Business planning workshop with Herbert Smith Freehills volunteers. Three ELBA community partners are invited to share a business challenge they are facing and with the help of our volunteers they form a strategy to help support and reach their goals.
Race Equality Matters Week – Turning Awareness into Action #EveryActionMatters
As we mark #RaceEqualityMattersWeek, we’re reflecting on the progress made and the work still ahead to break down barriers to inclusion, retention, and leadership.
This week, our Chief Executive, Julie Hutchinson, joined voluntary sector leaders at the Green Park Leadership Roundtable, hosted by @britishredcross, to discuss culture, belonging, and collaboration. While progress has been made, there’s still much to do—let’s keep the momentum going!
At ELBA, we are committed to:
- Holding ourselves accountable for fostering an inclusive, supportive work environment
- Publishing our progress and data annually for transparency
- Sharing best practices with our partners to drive equity across our sector
- Encouraging open conversations about race equality in the workplace
@raceequality_uk
#RaceEqualityMatters #RaceEqualityWeek
#Inclusion
#Leadership
#Equity
Volunteers spent the day supporting the Barking and Dagenham food bank, a hard days work with a massive impact in the community!
🎊 🎉 It`s a wrap! 🎊 🎉
Check out our highlights for 2024. It has been glorious!! 🙌
#2024 #highlights
Taking a look back at the impact of skills based volunteering in 2024. Can`t wait for more meaningful connections and growth in 2025!
#skillsbased #eastlondon #2024
🚀 ELBA is Hiring! 🚀
Are you ready to take the next big step in your career? We are looking for talented individuals to join our dynamic team!
📢 Open Position: Operations Director
📢 Open Position: Project Co-ordinator, Equibalance Project
📢 Open Position: Community Development Project Manager (Fixed Term), BIG Alliance
👉 For more information and how to apply check here: https://elba-1.org.uk/join-us/work-for-elba/
#EastLondon #Islington #Hiring #Jobs
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Corporate Testimonials
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“We look for individuals that are passionate about customer service and can demonstrate and understand our values. In addition, a proven background and excellent personal presentation for client facing roles is essential. If candidates can show that they really have researched and want to work for our organisation there is a fantastic career path waiting for them.”
ISS, Recruitment Manager
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“Through ELBA, we recently invited a client to join us on a volunteering activity, to great effect. Not only did we all emerge feeling rewarded having used our skills and experience to help develop others, but working together in such a different environment also improved our understanding of each other and strengthened our relationship.”
Senior Manager at KPMG
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“The BIG Alliance employment team has played an integral role in Macquarie’s successful support of the London Borough of Islington. Working across our business, the employment team have identified areas where Macquarie and its suppliers can offer employment and employability opportunities to local groups and individuals, connecting with the Islington community in a simple and effective way.”
Head of Business Services EMEA, Macquarie Group
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“Thank you for a very enjoyable day spent with volunteers, ELBA team, and the staff and students at Rokeby School. I thought the content of the day and my fellow presenter was excellent. ELBA's contribution to each session was also excellent and underlined key attributes and competencies that we, as employers, would be seeking from the students and to which we referred in our own presentations. I'd like to say a huge thanks to the school for the hospitality they provided. I was delighted to find three students keen to stay on after school hours to listen to a re-run of my presentation, which their schedule had not otherwise enabled them to attend. They asked some very good questions and added greatly to my enjoyment of the whole day.”
Technical Director, Tunnelling and Earth Engineering, CH2M
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“ELBA has enabled us to connect in a more sustainable way to the local community in Tower Hamlets and their support has enabled us to really have a lasting effect on the community there.”
Corporate Responsibility Manager, Catlin
