BT Community Champions
Project: BT Community Champions – a global award scheme rewarding BT employees for their volunteering activities by donating grants to the groups they volunteer with.
Our Role: Working with the BT volunteering team, we built and manage the online application form and judging portal as well as overseeing application vetting. We handle all communications internally and externally and ensure the scheme is evaluated after each review. We manage payments in GBP, US$ and Euros to community groups around the world.
Benefits:
- Improved employee relations - 99% of BT employees rated the scheme as excellent, very good or good
- Increased company loyalty in employees
- Skills development - 82% of employees who volunteer say they take skills they learn whilst volunteering back into the workplace
- Improved community relations - 99% of award winners said the scheme was very important or important to community groups
- “I am exceptionally proud to work for an organisation that gives so much back to the community both through funding and allowing members of the team to take days out to assist” - BT Community Champions award winner
