Give & Gain Day is a celebration of the incredibly positive power of employee volunteering.

It usually takes place during Responsible Business Week in April.  However, Barnet Homes chose Friday 19 May to share their professional skills with charities and third sector organisations who have limited resource to send their staff on training and where capacity is limited.

Volunteers from Barnet Homes provided some skills based volunteering to the charity sector in Barnet. Thanks to Volunteering Barnet and Groundwork UK, we provided sessions on data protection for 17 organisations,  risk assessment training to a new organisation delivering community projects in Childs Hill and accounts services to one of our residents’ associations.

One Barnet Home’s employee who volunteered, Adam Fletcher Assistant Management Accountant, helped review the Annual Accounts for the West Hendon Resident’s Association.

Adam said: “I didn’t mind sharing my skills and experience in accounts with a local organisation – in fact it made me feel good to be able to give something back to the community and help them save money that they would have to allocate to pay a professional.”