Norfolk County Services has been a member of Business In The Community (BITC) for over four years, during which time the company and its staff have made financial and volunteer contribution to a number of diverse projects in the region.
Business Action on the Homeless:
NCS Human Resources Director, Tricia Fuller, sits on the Leadership Committee for this scheme and the company is pleased to have taken the most number of work placement people locally since this scheme began.
 Seeing is Believing:
Periodically, local businesses are introduced to areas of the community where help is needed. NCS visited Beaulieu House in Great Yarmouth, a hostel with a number of out-reach houses around the town. NCS sponsored a moped to enable staff to get quickly and economically from the main hostel to the other sites.
Open Christmas:
Annual events in Norwich and Great Yarmouth that provide a Christmas lunch and gifts for disadvantaged single people from all walks of life including divorcees, widows and widowers, the homeless, single parents. NCS staff have arranged food collections, and the company has supplied cutlery and crockery and sponsored Xmas crackers.
 ITV Big Clean-up Days:
Throughout the year, various local environmental sites in need of help work with ITV to encourage volunteers to help clean up part of their areas. Staff from NCS regularly respond to these calls; tree clearance at the Hawk and Owl Trust at Sculthorpe and conservation work at Pensthorpe Nature Reserve are just two of the recent projects they have enjoyed working on.
Probono Support:
For the Worstead Festival, NCS have provided hygiene training for the volunteer caterers who staff the annual festival. NCS has also provided HR policy development support to a number of charitable organisations.
Return to Work:
With its wide range of commercial activities, NCS can offer a diversity of job experience/opportunities to those includes the vulnerably housed and ex offenders wishing to return to a productive and satisfying life in the community. As part of the two-day initial training given by BITC, NCS ‘buddies’ attend to help provide advice and direction to participants. Two-week placements are regularly offered in areas as diverse administration, building maintenance, catering, grounds maintenance and refuse collection. In the last 12 months three candidates have successfully moved into fulltime employment within NCS.
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