Social Value
We positively engage with the defence community to address social issues, creating employment and training opportunities, and also strive to bring social and economic benefits to the local communities we serve.
Our social value commitments include:
- Working with SME’s, Service Partners and Charities combining the strengths of VIVO and local and national organisations to maximise impact.
- Having a target that at least 20% of new recruits have a military connection and to provide a guaranteed interview scheme for Armed Forces leavers.
- Establish a VIVO Apprenticeship Programme to support the employment and development of citizens within the local communities we work
- to provide funding for social value initiatives in the communities where we work.
As part of this, we have a Community Investment Fund and actively encourage applications to this. See below:
As part of our commitment to help veterans, we at VIVO fully funded a series of Friendship Breaks held by the RAF Benevolent Fund aimed at those who have experienced social isolation due to age, illness or bereavement
All our employees are entitled to take two days paid leave to volunteer for a social value cause and here is a video of an initiative in Cornwall where our team did, arranging volunteers to spruce up a much-loved community centre used by military families. The materials were funded by VIVO