GivingTime is a registered coaching and volunteering charity that partners with UK state secondary schools to provide free professional coaching to adolescent students in return for volunteering hours.
Our purpose is to support young people make the transition from education into the workplace.
Our priorities are
Work Readiness- Preparing young people for the world of work, not as it is today but for the world of work tomorrow.
Civic responsibility and community building- Promoting greater connectedness and community building through volunteering and partnerships between schools, young people and charitable causes.
Promoting mental wellbeing- Providing the space for personal expression and developing greater self-awareness in young people to enable improved life choices
GivingTime works in partnership with UK state secondary schools to provide young people (aged 14-18 years old) with free one-to-one professional coaching sessions.
Young people who apply to the GivingTime programme are paired with experienced professional coaches who volunteer their time to provide coaching sessions in a workplace environment.
GivingTime partners with commercial organisations within the same geographical region of the schools to obtain coaching space free of charge.
In return for the coaching, the young people volunteer their time to a cause that matters to them and their community.
The GivingTime programme operates locally, with schools, young people, coaches and organisations based within reasonable commuting distance from each other. Applications and monitoring of the programme is managed online.
