Give & Gain Day 2011

On Friday 24 June, Year 10 students attended a series of workshops with professionals from Lloyds Bank Major Corporate section.  This Lloyds group organises the finance for large organisations such as Sainsbury’s and Virgin Atlantic group to name a few.

Give & Gain is the UK’s largest day of employee volunteering.  Last year, 6,803 employee volunteers from 221 companies injected 1 million man-hours into communities of greatest need by volunteering with over 190 community organisations across the UK.

On Friday 24 June, Year 10 students attended a series of workshops with professionals from Lloyds Bank Major Corporate section.  This Lloyds group organises the finance for large organisations such as Sainsbury’s and Virgin Atlantic group to name a few.

Give & Gain is the UK’s largest day of employee volunteering.  Last year, 6,803 employee volunteers from 221 companies injected 1 million man-hours into communities of greatest need by volunteering with over 190 community organisations across the UK.

Give & Gain is organised annually by Business in the Community (BITC), one of the Prince’s charities, who work with businesses on their corporate sustainability initiatives.  This year’s focus of Give & Gain Day was Careers and Employability and Lloyd’s Bank volunteers ran a series of workshops around this theme.

These workshops included Communication Skills, a Finance Game, Advertising a Product, Profile setting and Negotiating Skills.

Many of the volunteers described their experience at the school, and our students, as outstanding.  One volunteer said:

“After today I have a whole new respect for what teachers do in schools”.

One of the Year 10 students involved said:

“it was a brilliant and useful day”

We would like to thank ‘Business in the community’ and Lloyds Bank for putting on these wonderful workshops.  It was an invaluable day for our students.