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The Power of Employee Volunteering

17th July 2025

An engaged workforce is proven to drive an increase in profitability, productivity, and quality as well as a reduction in absenteeism.

Providing quality and impactful volunteering is one of the best ways to engage your workforce and is an effective way to positively impact your organisation’s social value.

 87% of employees who volunteer feel engaged, have a greater pride in their company, increased job satisfaction and are developing new skills.

The award winning charity, MCR Pathways are looking to partner with Surrey businesses who can release staff to volunteer as mentors for young people in local schools for just 1 hour a week.

The mentoring programme is proven to aid professional development, providing mentors with highly sought after leadership and management skills.

Relationship-focused mentoring builds effective active listening and communication skills with deep empathy and establishing trust as a precursor to influential and values based

coaching. The experience is empowering and motivating employees across all industries, levels and roles.

Alongside personal development and wellbeing, seeing a young person grow and develop through weekly mentoring generates a lasting sense of accomplishment impacting on employee engagement.

The MCR model is creating a wave of positive change. The relationships and connections being made create a ripple effect and it’s having a profound impact on the young people it supports as well as on mentors, businesses and organisations, schools and local communities.

 

For more information about how your business can get involved, please contact MCR Pathways Surrey Partnerships Manager, Liz: liz.grace@mcrpathways.org