East London Business Alliance (ELBA) is a British business-community outreach charity promoting

corporate social responsibility Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a form of international private business self-regulation which aims to contribute to societal goals of a philanthropic, activist, or charitable nature by engaging in or supporting volunteering or ethicall ...

(CSR) and employee volunteering. A 'partnership of substantial businesses engaged in the social and economic regeneration of East London', it operates in the Boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Newham, Waltham Forest, and, under the name the BIG Alliance, in

Islington Islington () is a district in the north of Greater London, England, and part of the London Borough of Islington. It is a mainly residential district of Inner London, extending from Islington's High Street to Highbury Fields, encompassing the ar ...

. ELBA works with over 100 London companies committed to improving their impact on society. Education, local employment, and using business skills in the community are ELBA's three main focus areas.

History

In the 1990s, ELBA was known as the East London Partnership. A smaller group of around 37 companies, its work was focused on business leaders' involvement in local partnerships in Newham, Tower Hamlets and Hackney. From 1995, in partnership with The Environment Trust and

London Borough of Tower Hamlets The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is a London boroughs, London borough covering much of the traditional East End of London, East End. It was formed in 1965 from the merger of the former Metropolitan boroughs of the County of London, metropol ...

, ELBA was involved in the creation of Mile End Park. In 2012, Islington Giving invited ELBA to create a business-supported employee volunteer programme in

, called the Businesses for Islington Giving (BIG) Alliance. In 2013, ELBA's recruitment agency London Works, launched as a social enterprise to 'help talented people from low income backgrounds into their first role in London's financial and business services sector', received a £100,000 grant from the Mayor of London's London Enterprise Panel.

Competitors and alternatives

There are a number of alternatives to ELBA which offer corporate volunteering and these include: * Benefacto: Which concentrates on offering high-value volunteering experiences for small groups of corporate volunteers *

Volunteering Matters Volunteering Matters is a UK charity focused on "''the advancement of citizenship and community development for the public benefit through the promotion of volunteering''". It was founded in 1962 as Community Service Volunteers (CSV) by Mora and ...

: Which offers a similar service to ELBA with a wider geographical scope

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