Creating Capacity

December 2011, saw the result of extensive work undertaken by a team at KPMG supported by ELBA, with the delivery of three training workshops to community partners. The team were the winners of KPMG's BRIGHT 2011 competition, which invited employees to develop innovative CSR projects.

Responding to the challenge of - "As public funding for all charities continues to reduce, how can KPMG volunteers better use their skills and experience to help small local charities thrive in this new environment?"

- the team carried out interviews with community partners to identify focus areas from which they created workshops on Effective Proposals, Financial Planning and Management, Business Development, and Marketing and Partnerships.

Involving more than 15 volunteers from KPMG, the workshops were attended by over 20 community organisations and in the future some of these may benefit from further KPMG support.