Archives: 2016

Ulster Bank and Young Social Innovators project gets underway and Ulster Bank Academy wins at the Irish Institute of Training and Development Awards

Ulster Bank launched its new three year partnership with Young Social Innovators(YSI) in January. Through its support the bank will be helping to ensure the continued success of Ireland’s largest social innovation programme where young people tackle the social issues facing them locally, nationally and globally. As the programme gets underway, twenty teams of students from around Ireland


Will your business stand up for biodiversity?

We’re launching a new infographic that calls on organisations to raise awareness of Ireland’s threatened biodiversity and take action to protect and enhance it. Whether you work for a tech giant, professional services consultancy, food manufacturer, public utility or pharmaceutical company, your organisation relies on the ‘ecosystem services’ we get from the natural world. Ecosystem


KPMG and their participation with Time to Read

“KPMG is delighted to engage in the Time to Read programme, being involved since its inception, we see the value in instilling a passion for reading with young students. This is one of our most popular CSR programmes, even though the commitment is significant, each year we have trouble just selecting 10 readers from the


Gain a real sense of community involvement with #Time2Read Employee engagement initiative

Last year the Western People, a regional newspaper in Mayo, featured the Time to Read partnership between Lionbridge Technologies and Scoil Íosa, Ballina. Representatives from the newspaper went along to the workplace visit in the Emmet St premises where students from Scoil Íosa were invited to visit their volunteer readers at work. The workplace visit is often an exciting aspect of


Skills based volunteering key to successful CSR

KPMG has reaffirmed its commitment to skills based corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Ireland with the launch of its annual CSR report, ‘ Our CSR Story ’. ‘ Our CSR Story ‘ highlights KPMG’s award-winning skills based endeavours in CSR over the past eighteen months and brings together, in a collection of short stories, the wide range of communities and charities