Evolve Compass Impact Report 2022
Written by Orlaith McGuinness, Community Development Project Manager, ELBA
ELBA is delighted to share key achievements from Compass*, a programme designed to help community organisations navigate a business challenge through three months of high impact, intensive-volunteer support.
From April to June 2022, teams of employee volunteers from Accenture, Linklaters and Societe Generale worked alongside three east London-based community organisations: Hackney Wick FC, Hackney CVS and Foundation for Change. Through a collaboration of skills, knowledge and time, teams worked together to tackle key organisational challenges faced by the community organisation, across the areas of Marketing and Communications, IT and HR.
ELBA facilitated several touchpoints throughout the programme, including two initial Deep Dive sessions, enabling project teams to establish clear objectives and a project plan from the outset, as well as a mid-point review, providing a chance to take stock and refocus for the remaining month. Beyond this, project teams were advised to meet fortnightly to ensure project plans were on track. While initial engagements took place online due to COVID restrictions, ELBA were pleased to be able to bring the cohort together for an in-person Celebration Event in June 2022.
Key achievements:
“The relationship between us and the corporate volunteers worked well: their keenness to want to support, their understanding and wanting to understand the difference in workplace cultures with a view to finding the places where they meet.”
– Compass community participant
“I was able to use my skills like project management to support the charity. The chance to use my knowledge to support others is incredibly rewarding.”
– Compass volunteer
For a full overview of the programme, key achievements, project summaries and participant experiences, please see the full Compass Impact Report.
This first edition of Compass formed part of Evolve, a collaborative partnership between Linklaters, UBS, Societe Generale and the Societe Generale UK Foundation. Evolve aims to build the capacity of community organisations across Hackney, Tower Hamlets and Haringey, particularly in response to the effects of COVID-19.
If you are interested in participating in a Compass activity, please get in touch with your main ELBA contact, or email orlaith.mcguinness@elba-1.org.uk
*Compass is modelled on CoRe, a programme which has been delivered by BIG (ELBA’s satellite charity in Islington) for the past 10 years. The CoRe model has led to incredible impact for Islington partner charities and volunteer learning and development. Since 2009, over 350 volunteers from Macquarie Group and Slaughter and May have provided 70+ organisations with over 14,000 hours of support through the CoRe programme. Compass aims to generate parallel impact for ELBA’s East London community partners.
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