We support 150 members, including businesses of all sizes. From sole traders to multinational corporates, Connect Reading membership is tailored to meet your needs. Businesses gain access to our popular campaigns (The Giving Tree, and Summer Appeal), amazing services (like our Resource Xchange), free Team Challenges and curated volunteering opportunities, plus regular cross-sector networking and free training for your whole team.
Our membership fees are based on turnover per annum.
You can choose to pay either as a monthly direct debit (6 months minimum membership) or an annual invoice.
Joining the Connect Reading network gives your business access to organisations from every sector, boosting your profile and giving you multiple opportunities to build connections, social value and brand awareness. Accessing regular cross-sector events which include networking and L&D sessions is another great bonus!
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As a micro-charity, we ask all our members to sign up for a minimum of 6 months. To sustain our support for all our members, we’ve worked to make our sliding-scale charges as accessible as possible, for every sector. To ensure we can sustain our excellent service delivery, membership and access to our services is for a a minimum of 6 months, with automated renewal.
As we’re a micro-charity, we unfortunately cannot freeze memberships due to the significant impact it has on our cashflow. We have worked to make our sliding scales of membership as accessible as possible, for every sector. To ensure we can sustain our excellent service delivery, membership and access to our services & benefits is continual across an annual membership, 12 months with annual renewal.
Boosting your business’ social value, accessing bitesize bi-monthly L&D sessions for all your staff plus the opportunity to participate in our flagship projects are the core reasons to join our network. In addition, we identify partnerships with local and national businesses and nonprofits to leverage extra benefits for our members!
Our sliding scale of membership is as reasonable and accessible as possible. So if your Reading-based office only has a small number of employees who will use our services, we can charge a slightly lower rate – even if the business itself is a national or global corporation. We require evidence of the number of employees based at that office, to help us plan for the appropriate level of services for your business once you join.
ESG is Environment, Social & Governance; formerly known as CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility). ESG refers to the 3 key factors when measuring the sustainability and ethical impact of a business. Many companies refer to these as 3 pillars, and therefore choose to report in these areas.
It also covers a huge amount of what is measured in social value, according to central and local government procurement policies. Want to know more? Contact Connect Local!
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