1. Employee Volunteering Days
All employees have been allocated 2 days per year that they can take off work to volunteer for a charitable cause of their choice. Volunteering makes a difference, you can see real changes based on your actions, and this not only makes the recipient feel good but makes you feel good also.
2. Ad-hoc Fundraising
We will be holding one-off fundraising events for various charities throughout the year. This can be anything from Macmillan Coffee mornings, wearing red for Red Nose Day, or joining an organised event such as Race for Life.
Fellrunner Village Bus
The Fellrunner Village Bus is run by volunteers who tackle isolation in the elderly head-on – they’ve set up busses, driven by the volunteers, to reach the elderly in remote locations. This has evolved into a community that looks out for one another and will go the extra mile to ensure they are okay.
For our trip to the Lake District, we to make sure we left a positive impact on the area, and we started a fundraiser to help them raise money for a new bus. We smashed our targets and raised over £3100 for them, which the EVORA Board matched.
Check out the video from our friends at the Fellrunner.
Litter picking
Litter picking is one way to clean up community spaces to create happier, healthier, cleaner, and greener places to live and enjoy. Some people from the London office split into teams to litter pick at Brighton beach and Mudchute Park and Farm, and the Bolton office also split into teams to clean up Formby beach and also parks in the local area.
Race The Thames
EVORA teams across the globe participated in Race The Thames – the annual fundraising event run by London Youth Rowing (LYR). The money raised is used to support LYR’s work in London and Leeds, which allows young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to take part in rowing. We had 4 teams of 8 participating, where each team needed to make the distance of 346km over one week in any way they could, such as running, walking, cycling, rowing, or swimming.
The teams running, walking, cycling, and rowing the 6km a day to reach their goal
Brent Lodge Park & Elthorne Park
Some of the London team volunteered for The Conservation Volunteers.
Over 2 days, our volunteers put up a dead hedge, which provides a natural habitat and food source for wildlife in the area. As well as repairing fenced enclosures, clearing nettles and planting trees.
Some of the London team volunteering at Brent Lodge Park
Fortalice Fundraiser
To raise money for Fortalice Ltd, a charity that supports people who have been affected by domestic violence, the Bolton office dug out their purple and blue attire as part of #WearItProud, raising over £300 for the charity
The Bolton team wearing purple for their chosen charity Fortalice
We are supporting Fortalice this year as the company charity. Fortalice is a Bolton-based charity providing frontline services for people who are, or have been, affected by domestic abuse and violence.
Our Bolton office has been supporting this charity since 2019, and we are proud that the whole company will get behind them this year to help too. We will be fundraising throughout the year and putting on a range of activities to support this.
10×10 Philanthropy is a live crowdfunding charity, comprised of young professionals who raise funds for grassroots charities all over the world through ‘dragon’s den’-style events.
EVORA Global are the official event sponsors for 10×10 London’s virtual event in May 2021, themed Empowering Women. The sponsorship funds will be split evenly between the three women’s charities being supported:
– Savera UK, who campaign to eliminate ‘honour’-based abuse and harmful practices – such as forced marriage and female genital mutilation – and provide life-saving services to those at risk in the UK.
– Sophie Hayes Foundation, whose mission is to provide independence through employability for women survivors of human trafficking.
– Women for Refugee Women, who empower refugee and asylum-seeking women to speak out, become leaders and advocate for change.
The sponsorship support from EVORA Global, totalling £2,500, will be providing vital support for these grassroots charities.
