- Demonstrate your business as a visible community innovator through your commitment to sharing your local business developments and impact with the wider community
- Strengthen your leadership brand and social capital through association with a trusted local institution and worthwhile cause
- Enhance your credibility with employees, clients, and partners who increasingly value socially responsible and community based organisations.
- Enable personal and professional development through volunteering and networking opportunities
- Encourage involvement in an active community group; reduce isolation; support a sense of community, enable socialising and building meaningful contacts
- Offer an opportunity to learn and engage with a range of interesting speakers on topics such as leadership, music, sports and family events
- Support mental, physical and spiritual health, fitness, stress reduction, and resilience
- Promote the opportunity to connect to nature and wildlife, as well as socially whether running, walking, out with they family, or exercising the dog in the extraordinary environment in St Mary’s Fields or by the canal
- Create meaningful engagement opportunities for your people by supporting a cause that fosters creativity, learning, and intergenerational connection
- Boost employee recruitment, retention and pride in your organisation
- Expand your business reach to new customers and opportunities to promote your products and services
- Demonstrate a mutual concern about sustainability and the future development and health of the community
Over the past two years friends have organised a wide range of events well attended by audiences from Kidlington and communities across Oxfordshire.
