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Corporate volunteering

Bring your team together. Make a real difference.

Corporate volunteering is a powerful way to engage your team while making a real difference for neurodivergent people.

Whether it’s spending time on our campus, supporting at events, or sharing your professional skills, your team can contribute in practical ways that support our work and impact the people we serve.

We’ll work with you to create a volunteering experience that suits your team; whether that’s a one-off day or part of a longer-term partnership.

Volunteering with us offers your organisation the opportunity to:

- bring colleagues together through shared, purpose-driven activity that supports wellbeing, and connection

- contribute skills, time, and energy to meaningful causes

- strengthen links with your local community

- give employees a hands-on way to support inclusion

- create meaningful experiences for the neurodivergent children, young people and adults we support

“Volunteering at the Donaldson Trust was a fantastic experience. Good physical exercise, combined with great team work and all for a great cause. Definitely a worthwhile thing for anyone to do!”

– Volunteer, NatWest Gogarburn

What volunteering with us looks like

We offer a range of volunteering activities to suit different teams, skills, and availability. Here are some of the ways organisations have got involved:

Campus days
Spend a day at our Linlithgow campus, helping with grounds maintenance, sensory garden projects, or internal improvements that directly benefit the people we support.
Event support
Help us run fundraising events and activities – from stewarding to logistics, your team can play a vital role.
Skills-based volunteering
Share your professional expertise with us. Past volunteers have supported us in areas such as marketing, IT, finance, and communications.

“We had a super enjoyable, rewarding day volunteering with the Donaldson Trust and would hugely encourage other to volunteer, and find out more about the great work that the Trust does.”

– Volunteer, Law Society of Scotland

The difference your team can make

It is estimated that 1 in 7 people are neurodivergent – around 15% of the UK population. But too often, their needs are misunderstood or overlooked.

By volunteering with The Donaldson Trust, your team helps us extend our reach and deliver more for neurodivergent individuals and their families. A volunteer day spent improving our outdoor spaces, for example, directly benefits the people who use those areas every day.