Surgery session: Your Community

Join us for this interactive Surgery session, designed to provide a dynamic forum where you can ask the experts on how to develop your business’s community and social impact initiatives. You’ll also have the opportunity to learn from our other small business members and get answers to your community-related questions, aimed to improve your business practices.

Why attend?

• Ask the experts: Bring your questions and get tailored advice and insights.
• Participant-driven format: With no fixed agenda, this session is driven by your queries and discussions. It’s your chance to explore the topics most relevant to you and your team from supporting your local communities to increasing employee volunteering and charitable partnerships.
• Connect and share: Our Surgery sessions offer a valuable opportunity to share experiences with peers who are equally dedicated to developing their responsible business practice. Learn from others’ successes and challenges to better navigate your own path towards making a social impact.

This is YOUR opportunity to delve into any aspect of your community that surrounds your business!

We will be joined by two experts in the community space from our ambassador network, ready to answer your questions on topics such as:

• Volunteering and getting your team involved
• Building effective charity partnerships Measuring social impact and identifying key focus areas
• How to increase social impact through strategic spending

You’re invited to bring to the table any other questions you may want to discuss that is associated with community work.

Join us to gain insights, share experiences, and find practical solutions that can help cultivate your business’ local community.

Please note: Surgery sessions are live and interactive but will not be recorded or made available on our learning platform after the event.

Who Should Attend?

Anyone who’s part of our Foundations for Responsible Business programme who wants to learn more about responsible business practices which benefit their community.

Speaker Profiles

Raquel Daniels, Social Impact and Philanthropy at UBS

Over the past year, Raquel has led the implementation and delivery of the Social Impact volunteering programme at UBS in the UK, having engaged over 3,000 employees.

Prior to this she has worked in corporate responsibility roles covering EMEA locations at similar sized organisations, including Morgan Stanley and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. Her portfolio includes the development and roll-out of high-profiled skills-based/pro bono projects globally.

She completed a Master’s degree in Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability in 2013, which equipped her with a deep understanding of sustainable business practices and ethical governance.

David Adair FICRS, Director of Community Engagement at The PwC Foundation UK

David is passionate about collaborative cross sector partnerships, having joined PwC in 2001, bringing extensive knowledge and experience from the voluntary sector in relation to social mobility, the creative arts and social enterprise.

David oversees PwC’s Community Investment in the UK, a contribution totalling £10.1 million (FY23) in cash, time and in-kind support. This includes instigating the Colour Brave Charity Fund in response to Black Lives Matter, One Firm One Day our annual volunteering day and the New world New skills social mobility schools programme, supporting 17,000 school students and 300 on paid work experience across the UK.

David initiated and developed PwC’s own social enterprise hub in an old Fire Station in London incorporating ‘Brigade’, a restaurant training vulnerable people in culinary skills, now in its 13th year.  David started the PwC Social Entrepreneurs Club which currently supports over 350 social enterprises across the UK with mentoring and master classes and is passionate about Place based change, supporting PwC opening an office in Bradford and recruiting local school leavers.

As well as being a Trustee of the PwC Foundation, David chairs the Charity Discounted Fee Board and the Social Value Fund. A Fellow of the Institute of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (ICRS) he also represents PwC on The Youth Futures Foundation Employers Advisory Board and on the Business in the Community Place TaskForce.

Accessibility

We aim to make our learning opportunities and workshops accessible to everyone. If there’s anything you need from us to access this event, please let us know in advance.

Surgery sessions

Exclusive to Heart of the City’s Foundations for Responsible Business programme members, our Surgery sessions are online, last for 90 minutes and provide a collaborative learning environment for SMEs to work through key business challenges, explore practical solutions and gain valuable insights directly from industry experts. If you ‘d like to come along, you can join the programme now.