Whether you are a team of employees, a group of friends or a family, volunteering is a great way of doing something different, spend time together, and developing team working skills.

Since 1994 Volunteer Centre Edinburgh has organised hundreds of team opportunities for groups of employees, groups of young people and other groups. We ensure that team volunteering opportunities are viable, safe, appropriate and of value to the community. We are also on hand to provide help, advice and support if required.

"Team challenges? We got to take part in a fantastic team building exercise and have a lots of fun, whilst the charity got a really worthwhile piece of work completed at absolutely no cost to themselves - we were delighted and so were the charity."

Brenda McKay, Team Member

Straight forward to complete, short duration, one off opportunites are always available and we produce a list quareterly of those currently available. If yoy would like a copy of our current list please contact Paul Wilson (0131  225 0643 / paul.wilson@volunteeredinburgh.org.uk).

To make life easy for you we also have a simple, easy to follow guide on how to organise a team volunteering event. You can download this guide, which includes a checklist of what you need to do here.

Team Opportunities for Employees

People who work well together as a team are one of the most valuable assets any employer can have. There are many team building tools available but few are as satisfying, inexpensive and widely beneficial as a community challenge.

Rather than spending large amounts of money on a conventional team building day, connecting with a local community based organisation can provide both employers and teams with many benefits:

• Low cost
• An outstanding sense of achievement for all who take part
• A real team building experience impossible to replicate in the classroom

More and more companies, big and small, are now seeing the benefits of team volunteering challenges in their local community.

There is no charge for choosing one of our "off the shelf" team volunteering opportunites and we can even advertise your team to organisations who may be looking for help. However if you would like the Volunteer Centre to act as a broker between your company and the host organisation a small charge will be levied.

If you would like any more information on how Volunteer Centre Edinburgh can help with your community involvement strategy please contact Paul Wilson (0131  225 0643 / paul.wilson@volunteeredinburgh.org.uk).

Sun Microsystems employees take a well earned break

"The sense of achievement by teams when a challenge is finally completed, far exceeds any equivalent team building experience that could be gained in a training room"

Fiona Anthony, Community Involvement, Standard Life