Your Team

Motivating your employees

There are many ways in which a partnership with Cool Earth can boost staff satisfaction, encourage team work and demonstrate to your employees that you are a socially responsible company.

These range from: Employee incentives, fundraising initiatives, offering Payroll Giving to Match Funding.

Learn more about all of these options:

Employee incentives

Setting fundraising targets and team challenges can really motivate and incentivise your employees. Here is an example of how our partners have used employee incentives.

The Co-operative bank set its staff an ethical challenge in conjunction with Cool Earth. Every time they encouraged a customer to open a Think Credit Card the Co-operative saved an acre of South American rainforest from the chainsaw. What's more their customers knew that every time they spent a hundred pounds using the Think Credit Card, 25 pence would go to Cool Earth. The Co-operative Bank created a green chain from employer to employee to customer to the rainforest saving 1,700 acres in the process.

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Fundraising

Fundraising activities are a fun challenge for employees, bringing them together as a team, getting focused and helping to develop useful skills. The Cool Earth team can help you devise a programme of events, set up a special staff account and plot your rainforest saving achievements via Googlemaps.

Explore ways to fundraise for us.

Matched Giving

This is a great way to encourage your staff to reach their fundraising targets. You match what they raise, setting a positive example and boosting the end total to really make a difference to how much rainforest you can protect.

Payroll Giving

Payroll Giving allows employees to give to a charity directly through their salary. The donation is deducted from their pay before tax is deducted. This means that employees are given tax relief on their donation immediately. For example a donation of £10 would only cost an employee £8 if they pay tax at the basic rate.

Offering this form of giving sends out positive signals to employees about the company they work for. It shows social responsibility is integral to a company's outlook and that staff involvement is important to the success of this. Company's can really get behind a cause and their staff by matching their payroll donation.

To get in touch contact Cool Earth Business Manager Ben Gray on;

• Email: ben.gray@coolearth.org
• Tel: +44 (0)20 7499 7800