Employee volunteering

A large number of the people who work for Alliance Boots genuinely want to contribute in a way that benefits the wider communities in which they live and work. We give them encouragement providing volunteering opportunities and supporting their fund-raising efforts. Volunteering is a good way for employees to do something different while at the same time strengthening their leadership and organisation skills.

Volunteering in the local community

Volunteering can play a valuable role in team-building. Last summer, a team from the East and West Midlands regions of our UK Health & Beauty business joined forces with local charity, “Volunteer Plus”, to put in a strenuous but rewarding day’s work clearing an overgrown local community garden. In Northern Ireland, a team of eight from our UK Health & Beauty regional office team worked equally hard to smarten up their local “Marie Curie” hospice.

Helping families in need

In the UK, we also recently joined forces with “Home-Start”, the nation’s leading family support charity, to match Boots volunteers with projects that make a real difference to families in their area. Our UK Health & Beauty employees took part in a variety of projects – from garden makeovers to organising events for “Home-Start” families. As well as being a great way to give something back to local communities, all volunteering opportunities are mapped against business competencies to help achieve targets on personal development plans.

Alliance Healthcare Russia

In December 2007, Alliance Healthcare Russia signed an agreement to donate approximately £32,000 to the charity fund “Shelter for Childhood” over a 12 month period.

The activity of the fund is aimed at supporting the role of the family in society, by protecting the interests of children, mothers and fathers, preventing homelessness, neglect and social orphanhood; and promoting self-improvement and healthy living.

The donations are helping the charity to create a rehabilitation complex for children and teenagers considered “at risk”, including shelters for women under the age of 18 who have had children and find themselves in difficult circumstances.

“We encourage our employees to volunteer”