How You Can Help
Coronavirus Volunteering Opportunities
There are countless essential schemes you can get involved in to support the fight against Coronavirus. From building life-saving equipment, supplying PPE or simply supporting local businesses and helping the vulnerable. We’d love you to tell us what you are doing to play your part.
How You Can Help The Fight:
General Support required from business
Pick For Britain
Provide Essential PPE
Support for Reservists
Charities Who Need Your Help
Voluntary Opportunities
Worcestershire Community Foundation
Support Worcestershire Acute Hospitals
Become a GoodSam Volunteer
Become a Clarendon Care Volunteer
Become a Business Sector Volunteer
If you your business has voluntary requirements
See who’s already helping the country
If you your business has been a part of the vital fight, we’d love to know about it.
You can let us know how you have been involved here
Coronavirus News
Retraining essential as 1 in 5 firms consider redundancies post-furlough
The BCC has called for government to extend skills training as new research showed nearly 1 in 5 companies are considering staff redundancies as the next phase of furlough tapering begins. With older workers much more likely to still be on furlough, there is...
Increased furlough contribution to test business resilience
This week employers who are claiming furlough pay for their workers now will have to pay 20% towards the subsidised wages as the Job Retention Scheme continues to gradually wind down. Figures published in July show the fewest number of people on furlough since the...
£7 million fund launched to support more flexible apprenticeship opportunities
Sectors including the creative, agriculture and construction industries can now bid for a share of a £7 million fund to support the creation of new flexible apprenticeships. Apprenticeships are at least 12 months long, so some sectors with flexible employment patterns...
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