Corporate Volunteering
Corporate Volunteering Opportunities
Is your business interested in making a difference to our natural environment, people and places? Want to take part in a fun and productive teambuilding day?
We have a range of meaningful opportunities that enable our corporate volunteers to develop their skills and understand how they can make a contribution to supporting the local environment and communities in which they live and work. Make a conservation day part of your Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) plan or Corporate Social Responsibility.
Full training and equipment is provided, often using traditional methods of managing the natural landscape such as cutting back vegetation with scythes and sickles. Please see examples of previous corporate volunteer opportunities below and read what one of our recent business volunteer groups got from their day with us .
Tasks will vary according to the season but do get in touch to find out how we can match you with a volunteering opportunity.
If the day coincides with our regular Conservation Volunteer days, there is no cost to you. If you require a bespoke volunteering event we can discuss costs to cover planning and administration expenses.
Interested in how your team can make a difference? Please email volunteer@bradfordymca.org.uk or complete an enquiry form below.
Take a look at some of our previous corporate volunteering days
A large team from Hallmark Cards joined us in the community orchard we manage to undertake a number of seasonal management tasks such as coppicing hedging to use to make natural fencing panels, cutting back overgrown paths, weeding under fruit trees and adding material to our composting heaps. It was a lovely warm day and the feedback was very positive. The group left with a greater understanding of fruit production, positivity and community spirit.
Liberty Global joined our team to undertake a summer task of cutting back bracken on Baildon Moor above Bradford. This was done using traditional tools such as scythes, sickles and wooden hay rakes. Doing this allows native plant species such as heathers and bilberries to grow and flourish by removing the competition of the bracken. Increasing the biodiversity of the moor improves the habitats of moorland plants and animals.
Balfour Beatty have undertaken some of the recent structural changes around Bradford city centre playing a key role in transforming the city of Bradford by making it easier for people to walk, cycle and use public transport.
They chose Bradford BEES (Bradford Environmental Education Service) to partner with to give back to the local community via their corporate volunteering activity.
“The teams cleared away old storage units and unsightly waste, plastics and rotten wood then, built new storage units and protected them with waterproofing. The units made would be used to store materials for fencing, tree planting and propagation of plants for environmental projects. We also made mini beast hotels from recycled wood and logs and additional much needed leaf bins.
Not only was it great for teambuilding and a sense of achievement and wellbeing but, also having made a positive impact at Stoney Ridge as the quote from Shona stated “We so appreciated your help on both these days to get a job done that would have taken us years.”
One of the volunteers described their day with Bradford BEES; “We had a great day at Stoney Ridge woodlands, helping to tidy up and organise the woodlands which were in need of a bit of TLC. It was a great day of team building, and it was fun to learn some new tricks of the trade given that I am usually sat in the office – and we chose a beautiful day to volunteer as the sun was shining all day. It was all in all a very rewarding and insightful day!
“Our team took part in the leaf shelter building. We had a fantastic day and felt truly privileged to be able to spend time in such a beautiful space.
We certainly learned a lot of practical skills – such as cutting chicken wire and how to make a deep hole(!) But we also learned why we were doing what we were doing (I never knew that leaves decay more slowly than other organic matter, for example), and the BEES team gave
us a tour of the site where they shared loads of information about the site and the plants that grow there. I love the passion that the team has for the site. Without doubt, the day spend volunteering left us more conscious of the fragility and preciousness of our environment.
I think that the volunteer day truly benefited the team’s mental health – a great combination of physical activity, beautiful environment, team work and the sense of a job well done left us all in a super positive frame of mind. We will be back in 2025!”
Phillipa Dixon, Company Secretary Hallmark Cards, Bradford
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