Deloitte - The Deloitte Employability Initiative

The firm's flagship and award-winning community programme helps give young people the skills, attitudes and behaviours they need to secure and sustain employment. The Deloitte employability course is delivered by Deloitte-trained teachers at more than 70 further education colleges.

Company investment:

Cash £195,000 and employee time £128,166 in 2007. Combined input to 2011 is £2m cash and £700k employee time.

Programme achievements:

In 2007/08 more than 1,200 students attended Deloitte employability courses. 147 FE College teachers were trained and, together with the existing 64 teachers, they will deliver courses to up to 6,000 young people. More than 200 Deloitte people volunteered during the year, with more than 90% stating an increase in business skills and 99% stating they would recommend volunteering on the initiative to colleagues. £600,600 was leveraged from other sources as a result of Deloitte’s investment. It is expected that by 2011 more than 40,000 young people will have completed courses delivered by 800 trained teachers and that more than 1,500 Deloitte employees will have taken part.

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Next Event

What: Getting Started Workshop 29/09/2010

When: 29 September, 2010

Location: Corporate Citizenship, Holbon Gate, 330 High Holborn, London. WC1V 7QG

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LBG : Benefits of the LBG

Benefits of the LBG

The LBG model provides a comprehensive and consistent set of measures for corporate community involvement professionals to determine their company’s contribution to the community.

Companies that join the LBG and apply the LBG model find that it can benefit the measurement and management of their community programmes in a number of ways.

These include:

  • A complete understanding of the scale and value of the company's investment in to the community - In several cases members applying the model have seen the value of their community contributions almost double.
  • Assessment of what the company’s investment achieves - The model looks beyond the input costs of community investment to assess what this actually achieves for both the company and the community
  • Better management of the community programme – Application of the model provides the information to assess how the programme achieves its objectives or fits with business goals
  • Take better decisions on future investments - The model provides a simple matrix for assessing the project achievements to feed into the decision making process
  • Better communication, internally and externally - Simple summary information to communicate the community programme and its achievements.