Corporate Volunteering

Support us to make a difference

Green Synergy offers corporate volunteering opportunities for businesses wishing to improve their staff wellbeing, work on team building or contribute to the local community and environment sustainability.

At Green Synergy, our volunteers support the garden operations, such as enabling us to grow food sustainably, improve the garden resilience to climate change or increase its biodiversity. This also enables our work in improving mental health and human empowerment across the projects we deliver.

Image: Group of LPFT staff on a corporate volunteering day on Hillside Garden.

Benefits for employees

• Improved awareness of the integration between plants and humans and sustainability practices applied in the ground.
• Feeling of accomplishment and purpose from working as a team towards a goal outdoors, which can improve mood and raise team morale.
• Improved wellbeing from being outdoors doing and learning about a different work from their everyday work.
• Exercise and engaging with the outdoors restores the capacity for focusing and problem solving and can encourage creative thinking.

Benefits for employers

• Greater staff satisfaction, commitment, and connection to the employer. Volunteering can bring a greater sense of meaning and empowerment towards a good cause.
• More connected teams following activities where employees worked together away from the normal workplace.
• Development of new skills, which can improve problem solving and thinking outside the box.
• Greater staff wellbeing from doing something different, whilst exercising outdoors.
• Increased brand awareness and improved reputation and trust amongst consumers
• Improved employee retention, as employers can be more loyal to organizations supporting social and environmental causes.

What to expect from the day

• Getting to know Green Synergy and how we enable plants and people to grow together.
• Greater awareness of how gardening improves biodiversity and the role it plays in the wider ecosystem.
• Overview and practical demonstration of the tasks, including, the role they play in our sustainability practices and the impact they make to Green Synergy.
• Understanding safe ways of working outdoors and how to do the assigned tasks. No previous experience required in gardening.
• There will be 2-3 tasks to choose from, to keep engagement high and allow everyone to participate, regardless of their physical abilities.
• Each task involves group work, and employees will be encouraged to work effectively as a team
• Refreshments will be provided during breaks.

To find out more about our corporate volunteering days and making a difference, please contact: info@greensynergy.org.uk