Team Volunteer

Last year’s winner was Helen Ford from Linklaters for her work with St Monica’s Catholic School.  Helen is a great example of “conversion”. We love team challenges at ELBA but what we really like is to develop longer term partnership between the volunteers and their community partners.  Helen has returned year on year with her team to renovate and reorganise the school’s infant and junior libraries.  The Head teacher praised her for creating an area that is well loved and used by all the children.

   

Partnership of 2008

Last year’s winner was the Legal and Compliance team at Morgan Stanley for their work with Eastside Young Leaders Academy and the Ascension Eagles Cheerleaders. Morgan Stanley was the first company to engage with our Future Directions programme and they have really run with it, making it a huge success. This programme for young people is aimed at developing leadership skills and raising aspirations and ambitions whilst giving them a glimpse of the corporate world. The scheme has proved so successful that there is a waiting list to volunteer and the team have also engaged volunteers from across Morgan Stanley’s Women’s and Black African and Caribbean networks to take part.

   

Education Volunteer

Last year’s winner was Mike Bedford from Accenture for his work with Rokeby Boys School. Mike has been instrumental in putting together the programme for our Future First initiative aimed at empowering young people to think about their future and give them the employability skills to succeed. He designed the first programme for Rokeby School and also engaged many other Accenture staff to volunteer. Thanks to Mike’s dedication and leadership the programme has had an impact on 75 young people’s lives in the three most challenging schools in Newham. This resource, designed and piloted by Mike and his fellow volunteers has real legs and is a transferable resource to use with a wide range of other companies

   

Mentor Of The Year

Last year’s winner was Josh Tucker from UBS. Josh has acted as an advisor and motivator to 3 different bodies in Hackney sharing the skills and expertise he uses in his day-to-day role within Investment Banking to help social enterprises and young entrepreneurs to analyse their market and business, develop sound plans for development and work through the myriad issues associated with launching a new business. In particular he has worked closely for nearly two years with a young man from Hackney in setting up his own business.

   

Community Volunteer Award

Last year’s winner was Michael Marx from Development Securities for his work with the Ascension Eagles Cheerleaders.  He has been involved with them for over 5 years and has become a tireless champion in his fundraising efforts.  He also acts as a consultant to the Director using his extensive business contacts to lever in additional support for the organisation.

   

Employee Volunteer Support

Last year’s winner was Gail Cunningham from Macquarie Group Limited. She has worked with us to set up the Macquarie Real Apprentice scheme which supports unemployed residents from Hackney. So far 50 Macquarie volunteers have been involved in a programme which has seen 48 jobseekers on placement, 47 benefitting from employability events and 31 employed since late 2007.

   

Legacy Champion

Last year’s winner was Kay Hutchinson from Red Bee Media. She has worked tirelessly on the Broadcast Centre and opened employment opportunities inside Red Bee Media for our apprentice programme.