Heart of the City provides FREE support for businesses wanting to develop or expand their existing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme.
Building on the experience of 240 businesses, we will provide a bespoke programme of support tailored to suit your company’s size, sector and CSR experience. We can help regardless of whether you’re new to CSR and are looking for start-up advice, or want to develop your existing CSR programme.
Our free programme consists of:
- Informal workshops
- Networks
- Materials
- Mentoring support
- Dedicated Account Management
- Evaluation and Benchmarking
- Visits and Signposting
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Informal workshops
Hosted and facilitated by companies with experience in CSR Simple jargon free approach - honest accounts from a range of businesses
- What does CSR involve?
- Developing and implementing a CSR Programme
- Maintaining momentum of your existing CSR activities
- How to measure and communicate success
- Click here to see how other businesses have benefited from our workshops
Networks
Heart of the City believes that the best way for businesses to learn is from one another and has, through its programme, created a formidable network of companies with varying degrees of experience in CSR who are working together to improve the scale and quality of their CSR programmes.
Network at our events and share experiences on the exclusive members’ area of our website. Meet businesses from a range of sectors, each facing their own trials and tribulations - you are not travelling the CSR journey alone!
Materials
Why re-invent the wheel? - We have an extensive range of materials (view our CSR flow chart) to help you develop and communicate your programme, including example CSR policies, top tips and case studies.
These materials have been developed in close collaboration with our experienced Corporate Partners.
Mentoring support
1-1 guidance from our experienced CSR Manager within one of our Corporate Partners. Carefully matched to suit your business needs.
Find out what other businesses have got out of mentoring by clicking here.
Dedicated account management
Your Project Manager will get to know your individual business needs, and assist you with information requests, providing you with relevant documentation that Heart of the City has readily available and connect you with other practitioners in the network.
Evaluation and benchmarking
Heart of the City will provide feedback by evaluating your programme’s performance against Key Performance Indicators, helping you to understand where your company is now, and the actions needed to move forward.
Visits and Signposting
Heart of the City provides introductions to useful organisations such as charities and community partners.
To see what other companies have gained from signposting, click here.