About Us

The Staff Volunteering and Outreach team supports staff members who wish to participate in the Durham University Employer Supported Volunteering scheme. All staff can participate in the project and can apply to volunteer in work time for up to 5-days per year, subject to line-manager approval. More information about the staff volunteering scheme is available here.

The SVO team works with a growing number of departments across the University to facilitate student placements as part of degree programmes. Through these projects, groups of students work together to tackle a real business problem faced by a community or third sector organisation and offer practical solutions to these issues. Some of the most successful projects have so far seen groups of Computer Science students work with a large number or local organisations, and students studying at Durham Business School delivering marketing and business plans for community groups in the North East.