Working with Businesses
Derbyshire Pioneers gives Derbyshire businesses the unique opportunity to share their social impact, support their local communities, have meaningful civic engagement and learn alongside local community organisations.
Being a Derbyshire Pioneer will support businesses’ CSR strategies and create impactful opportunities to learn and grow.
“Think global, act local. We help organisations contribute to the United Nations Sustainability Goals locally and with impact.”
The benefits of being a Derbyshire Pioneer include:
Joining a network of local like-minded organisations
Free access to any of our activities, including the popular Training and Tea and Connect and Reflect
Matching and support to develop a year-long community relationship; forging a deep and impactful connection to share values, problem solve and strengthen both partners
Logo and Pioneer Profile on our website
Downloadable badge for your website/marketing
Support to share and measure community stories
How:
We co-create shared learning and collaborative opportunities to bring organisations together across sectors. These measurable and impactful activities enhance your brand values and support your CSR goals. Establish new connections that bridge sectors and open up new ways of thinking and new audiences.
Activities:
Upskill your team with our Training and Tea, these highly regarded 45-minute long training sessions cover a variety of topics, simply sign up for the sessions most relevant to you.
“Connect and Reflect” offers you the opportunity to work with community leaders, other professionals, and University members to address pressing local issues which you are passionate about. These shared learning sessions enable cross-sector dialogue to bring about real positive change in our communities.
“Cross-sector Collaboration” will partner you with a carefully chosen community organisation for a year’s relationship, perfect to share challenges, problem solve and develop solutions together for mutual benefit.
Click here to Become a Derbyshire Pioneer and our team will be in touch
Additional Resources*
We can also support your business with:
Develop your team with our “Personal Life meets Professional Life: Creating a welcoming workplace and a culture of care.” This unique lunch and learn session captures the voices of those with lived experience to make for memorable discussions about managing teams sympathetically.
A Live Brief offers your team a short opportunity to work alongside one of the local community organisations to address one of their challenges, whilst giving the team an opportunity to collaborate and learn new skills outside the workplace. This can be an opportunity to showcase your organisations expertise or the chance to try something totally different and leads to innovation and creativity.
Work with a panel of ‘Experts by Experience’ to help your business innovate and improve services for your customers. Experts by Experience enable businesses to gain valuable insight from people from specific client groups or under-served communities which can enhance your customer service, inform user-centric product design and enable your business to become more inclusive.
*Additional charges may apply.