Sky have launched the Smartchange solution as their dedicated employee community involvement site: www.sky-makeadifference.com
Using the Smartchange solution, Sky employees can:
Participate in a diverse range of volunteering opportunities
- Support any UK charity through payroll giving and charity accounts
- Create fundraising pages for online sponsorship
- Support Sky's official charity, The Chicken Shed Theatre Company
- Read news and share stories with employees.
All Sky employees in the UK can access the site over their Intranet or via secure kiosks strategically located around their offices.
Sky is using Smartchange to promote their volunteering policy to employees. Sky gives employees up to 16 hours paid time per annum to volunteer in the community.
James Murdoch, BSkyB CEO says:
“Sky people have exceptional skills and talents which make Sky the success it is. We are encouraging staff to share these skills with the communities in which we operate, through our volunteering programme, Sky's 'Make a Difference'. We all recognise that helping to build stronger communities is a key part of responsible business, and this programme will help channel some of the incredible energy of Sky people toward that goal”.
Beryl Cook, Sky Director for People and Organisational Development says:
"Sky Volunteers is a programme where everyone wins. By sharing our expertise and time with our surrounding communities, we can not only make a positive contribution to local organisations that are striving hard to address social need, but we are giving Sky people the opportunity to hone existing skills, develop new ones and practise them in a fresh and stimulating environment. I'd certainly encourage you to get involved."
Vinay Khosla, Managing Director of Vivid Orange, the providers of the Smartchange solution says:
"We are delighted to be working with Sky as the Smartchange solution is a strong fit with Sky's community involvement strategy.
Smartchange will enable Sky to increase employee participation in the community while reducing the administrative costs of managing their diverse and comprehensive community programme.
The community involvement team can concentrate on finding the most appropriate and valuable volunteering opportunities for employees, and help employees raise funds for charities, secure in the knowledge that the entire volunteering and fundraising process is being managed, measured and reported by the Smartchange solution."
”Organisations with over 5,000 employees wishing to increase employee participation in the community and effectively scale their current community involvement activities should consider Smartchange.” The Butler Group, Europe's Leading IT Analyst Company
Smartchange is the community involvement solution from IT services firm Vivid Orange Limited.
Designed to help large organisations meet their Corporate Community Involvement (as part of their overall Corporate Social Responsibility strategy) objectives, Smartchange is delivered securely over the Internet as a Web-based, hosted application using an ASP model.
Smartchange is primarily a self-service employee volunteer management system and employee fundraising system – although its modular design means it can be used by organisations to do much more.
Smartchange makes employee volunteering administration simple and efficient for the organisation and fundraising easy for the donor. Smartchange supports business rules for volunteering and donation matching, and also offers a comprehensive number of management reports all accessible via an at-a-glance dashboard.
Smartchange provides any registered UK charity a free and easy way of getting their profile in front of corporate employees.
Charities can sign up for a free profile by visiting http://www.smartchange.org and clicking on SIGN-UP.
For more information, please contact:
Vinay Khosla, Vivid Orange Limited
vinay.khosla@vividorange.com
www.vividorange.com
www.smartchange.org
0208 509 0345
