Progressing Lives Everywhere - The Secret to Living is Giving

Welcome to this special edition of the Progressing Lives Everywhere podcast.

 

The period of Christmas and New Year tends to be the time when many businesses encourage charitable giving. But is once a year really the best way to make a difference?

 

In this instalment of Progressing Lives Everywhere, your host Daniel Daw, one of the founders of Amoria Bond, explores how businesses can give back and make a difference to help progress the lives of those less fortunate.

 

To help Daniel do this, he is joined by 3 long-term charity partners of Amoria Bond; Carole Hudson, founder of Project Peru, Christie Spurling, founder of N-Gage and Matt Hill, founder of One Tree Planted.

In these conversations, they discuss the most important factors when choosing businesses to partner with, the ways in which businesses can make a difference - and not just from a financial perspective, what drove them to establish their charity plus the projects they're proud of and their upcoming project goals.

 

Dan also speaks to Natasha Crump, Advisor to the Amoria Bond board on Strategic Programmes and CSR programme lead. In their conversation, Natasha outlines the business benefits plus practical ways your business can partner with non-profit organisations and charities in a more sustainable way, how your business can define meaningful and achievable CSR commitments that align with your values and engages employees, whilst also having an authentic and sustainable social impact.

 

Amoria Bond believes encouraging and enabling employees to get involved with charities and help those less fortunate than ourselves is essential to progressing lives everywhere. It’s the people running these charities every day who are the real heroes, and they genuinely need all the help and support they can get.

 

Learn more about Project Peru: https://projectperu.org.uk/

Learn more about One Tree Planted: https://onetreeplanted.org/

Learn more about N-Gage: https://www.n-gage.org.uk/

 

Resources mentioned: 

Social purpose and value creation The business returns of social impact: https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/operations/articles/social-value-creation.html

Deloitte Millennial Survey 2020: https://www2.deloitte.com/global/en/pages/about-deloitte/articles/millennialsurvey.html

Universum’s annual World’s Most Attractive Employers survey: https://universumglobal.com/wmae2020/

AB Charitable Trust website: https://amoriabondcharitabletrust.org/

 

Timestamped Agenda:

02:09 - Introduction to Natasha and why should CSR and charitable giving should be high on the corporate agenda?

06:35 - Interview with Carole Hudson, Founder of Project Peru

14:44 - Interview with Christie Spurling, MBE, Founder of N-gage

26:19 - Interview with Matt Hill, Founder of One Tree Planted

35:50 - How to align CSR with your values and employees

37:25 - What works well to engage employees in these initiatives? 

 

Thanks for listening to The Progressing Lives Everywhere Podcast, brought to you by Amoria Bond.

 

This podcast is a Loaded Hype production.