# City firms promote volunteering with e-mails to their staff

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2003/05/15/city-firms-promote-volunteering-emails-their-staff/
- Published: 2003-05-15T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**This week 636 employees of leading City firms signed up as potential volunteers
in a new online registration drive by an East London business volunteering agency.**

East London Business Alliance (ELBA) took the initiative in response to a perceived
slow-down in volunteering.

Six major City companies sent “all-staff” e-mails to their employees, inviting them
to sign up. The companies were UBS Warburg, Accenture, CMS Cameron McKenna, Man 
Group Plc, Schroders and the University of East London.

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ELBA were very pleased with the results. Liam Kane, Chief Executive of ELBA, said:“
Direct appeals for charitable giving elicit response rates of between 0.5 and 5%.
Asking people to give of their time is a tougher challenge and we didn’t know what
to expect. We obtained an average response of 7% across the total staff e-mail recipients
in the six companies. If this translates into volunteers on the ground it will represent
a great boost to the number of active volunteers in East London.”

The e-mail campaign was implemented by the technology charity Charity Technology
Trust (CTT). CTT is focused on helping leading UK charity brands become more efficient
and effective users of new technology.

Founder and CEO of CTT, Peter Sweatman said “ELBA’s success demonstrates the power
of tailored e-mail delivery of charitable opportunities direct to the inbox of the
desk based employee.”

To date CTT has sent 132 charity e-mail communications totaling 624,027 actual messages
to 163,453 different people on behalf of 18 top UK charities.
 

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