Our Alliance
We are stronger when we work together. Here at BIG, we encourage collaboration within our alliance. All of our bespoke volunteering opportunities provide the space for businesses to come together and support the local community. We facilitate this collaboration through our programmes below:
BoardMatch - we help place volunteers from across our alliance as trustees to strengthen and diversify the boards of local charities
Community Resourcing (CoRe) programme - we work with volunteers from our business partners Slaughter and May and Macquarie Group to support charities overcome significant organisational challenges
Mentoring Works - we recruit and train mentors within our business alliance to support local YR10 and YR12 students in preparation for their future
Time to Talk - we endorse the inspirational campaign that helps to break the stigma around mental health. This is especially important to us as Islington has some of the highest levels of mental ill health in the UK
Letter writing to vulnerable and isolated residents - Loneliness rivals obesity and smoking as a health risk [WedMD, 2018]. Our letter writing sessions give volunteers the opportunity to show an older person that someone is thinking of them, helping them feel less alone and more connected
