Measure

The Benchmarking tool allows for organisations to measure their social impact in 4 key areas: Education, Economy, Environment, and Community. Your responses will be presented in an easy-to-understand visual manner. It’s important to be honest, once your visual has been generated, you’ll then be able to compare your results against other companies.

USE THE BENCHMARKING TOOL

Creating Connections

Creating connections is a great way for you to being working on your social impact. This function will allow you to promote your activities to the Chambers network of contacts. Not-for-profits, charities or individuals aiming to promote a good cause can request help from these businesses by emailing connection opportunities or requests to marketing@wnychamber.co.uk.

ADVERTISE AN CONNECTION

Awards and Reward

Annually, the Raising the Bar Awards is the highlight of the business calendar. This is our way of rewarding you for your hard work; making social impact happen. We want to see you making real change in your local area by: taking part in charity work, supporting and investing in the community, or partnering with other members working on similar projects.

ENTER OR ATTEND THE AWARDS

Promotion

Share your stories with Chamber members and the wider business community with articles published on the members website, with potential inclusion in the Chamber quarterly magazine. Anything from successfully completed programs or updates on a project your working on, we want to promote and share your work.

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Social Impact Stories

Make a Lasting Social Impact with Compass Community

At Compass Community, we are dedicated to improving the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people across the UK. By partnering with us, your business can contribute to meaningful social change while strengthening your corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives. Why Partner with Compass Community? We work with businesses to create Social Value opportunities…

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Recruitment for new Trustees – Survive

Survive has for almost 35 years provided specialised trauma-informed counselling and support for survivors of sexual violence and abuse in York and North Yorkshire. The need for our specialised skills continues to grow as sexual violence draws attention daily. We have witnessed this growth as a charity as we supported close to 1,700 clients with…

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Governors sought for Leeds & Bradford schools

Would you like to positively impact the lives of young learners in your region whilst gaining board level experience? The Collaborative Learning Trust would love to hear from you. We’re looking for professionals from a range of backgrounds and disciplines to become governors at two of our schools. All Saints CE Primary School, Bradford (BD5…

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Social Impact for Business

Raising the Bar is a Chamber-run business initiative. Our focus is to help develop, implement, and sustain social impact programs in our regional area. The West and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce aims to bring our members together, to partner up and go above and beyond to serve the community you operate in. Whether this is done through fund raising, donations or employee volunteering opportunities, we want to see the change you’re making.

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Local social workers recognised in national ‘Amazing Social Worker’ awards

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Bradford start-up off to Houses of Parliament to launch UUK campaign

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Scarborough’s Grand Hotel joins the Disability Confident Scheme

The Disability Confident Scheme aims to create a movement of change, encouraging employers to think differently about disability and long-term…

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