Community and social matters
Published 9 June 2022
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Our Pro Bono and Volunteering Network has continued to support and encourage pro bono and volunteering activity within GLD, including awareness of GLD’s policy of allowing staff to spend 6 days a year undertaking volunteering activity (subject to business need).
We continued our regular support for Pro Bono Week. Our week, which opened with a message of support from the Solicitor General, included virtual events focussing on the role of pro bono in the wider legal profession and the different ways that lawyers can volunteer throughout their careers; the role of 2 legal advice centres and the experience of being a trustee.
And GLD members have continued to engage in a wide range of volunteering activities either individually or with their GLD colleagues. This has included helping with the Supreme Court debate days, supporting advice lines and advice centres, and tidying up allotments as well as acting as school governors and charity trustees and undertaking many other very worthwhile charitable activities.
It’s clear that GLD’s support for volunteering and pro bono work has a positive impact on staff engagement and wellbeing, in addition to the benefits to society that it also brings.