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		Getting involved with your community is good for business



	Getting involved with your community is good for business

How to get started in a small way

Find out more about issues in your local community from newspapers, your employees, customers, suppliers, the internet, local authority and the local Chamber of Commerce.
Make contact with relevant local community groups to understand their activities, consider possible involvement and to build a mutually beneficial relationship.
Find out the opinions of your employees and get them involved in your community programme.
Look at your existing business resources and how you can use them to benefit the community and your business at the same time.

Who can help you to go further?

Strengthening the performance of your business by getting more involved in your community is really just a matter of common sense. But it often pays to get help.

National Help

Business in the Community provides guidance, information and step-by-step models on business involvement in the community e.g. CommunityMark – a national standard recognising smaller businesses involvement in their local communities. See www.bitc.org.uk. In Scotland contact Scottish Business in the Community, see www.sbcscot.com.

Arts and Business helps to build communities by developing creative partnerships between business and the arts. www.aandb.org.uk.

Charities Aid Foundation is committed to increasing the resources of charities worldwide and helping individual and corporate donors add value to their generosity. www.cafonline.org.

Local Help

Education Business Partnerships, Volunteer Bureaux, Local Strategic Partnerships, Rotary Clubs, and Lions can provide information about activities of locally-based charities and your potential involvement.

Each 'How-To' briefing is available in pdf or word formats. To read the PDF document with a screen reader please link to the Access Adobe website which provides useful tools and resources. Adobe also has a free online conversion tool for PDFs.

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