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5 December | Mission day

Give an hour. Change a career.

Most volunteering asks for a day, a rota and a change of clothes. This asks for 30 minutes at a desk, and it is the volunteering your people are already qualified to do.

Date
5 December
Session length
30 minutes
Live within
30 days
International Volunteer Day

Why this date works for mentoring.

Mentors give their time voluntarily, so this day is a straight mentor recruitment campaign.

Volunteering that fits

Thirty minutes, online, no travel, no rota, no minimum commitment.

Hours logged for you

Every session is captured as volunteering time and reported without any admin.

A tree per session

Environmental impact that counts towards your sustainability goals.

Skills-based, not sandwich-making

Your people give the thing that only they can give: what they know.

How it runs

From sign-off to a number you can report.

  1. 01

    Six weeks out, pick the number

    Agree how many 30-minute sessions the day is aiming for, and who they are for.

  2. 02

    Four weeks out, open sign-ups

    One link goes out internally. Colleagues say yes in a minute and pick nothing else.

  3. 03

    Two weeks out, we match

    Mentees are matched on subject and time zone, and sessions land straight into diaries.

  4. 04

    On the day, it runs

    Sessions happen, the counter climbs, and your people see the total move in real time.

  5. 05

    The week after, you report

    A wrap-up with sessions, subjects, countries, hours given and trees planted.

Campaign ideas

What partners actually do on the day.

  • A target expressed in volunteering hours, not sessions

  • A team-versus-team push across offices

  • An end-of-year total published with the trees planted

  • A December ask that carries sign-ups into January

Questions

The things people ask first.

Does this count as volunteering time?

Yes. Each 30-minute session is logged and included in your reporting.

How much commitment is it?

One session. Mentors choose how often they take part after that.

Do you really plant a tree?

Yes, one for every completed session, and it appears in your impact reporting.

Make International Volunteer Day count this year.

A 15-minute call is enough to agree the date, the target and who the sessions go to.