January 26, 2010

Your Firm and the Community: Improving Your Standing with Volunteer Work

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The volunteers’ brotherhood can unite their community, and of course it will support those incapable of supporting themselves. Doing it yourself, however, freeing up the time to volunteer can consume time that could really be put to so much better use elsewhere. On the other hand, you’ll have more fun volunteering with your friends from work getting involved by your side!

Accordingly, a number of companies are making themselves into points of organization encouraging their employees to work for the community through volunteer activities. One of the leaders in this is Adaptive Marketing LLC of Connecticut who also offer financial and shopping benefits programs such as Your Savings Club.

Company supported volunteering has grown beyond once-a-year charitable giving. The employees of Adaptive Marketing have been provided with the opportunity to get involved in community initiatives. Applying the principles of central organization the initiatives grew into events, with specific dates, locations and times published in advance to help volunteers with their time management.

Making sure volunteers have their say in what initiatives are available is also important. Firms involved in this like Adaptive Marketing, offer their employees a diverse list of local activities to get involved with. There’s so much to be done; taking part in the entertainment and education of children, lending a hand to green activities, or improving the area’s aesthetic through arts and culture among others. A happy volunteer is an effective volunteer, consequently, through offering such a variety of activities Adaptive Marketing guarantee that their workforce will make progress on as many as possible.

Commonly a company sponsored charity initiative — getting involved with a local school or helping out at a homeless shelter — is either for a one-off event or on a regular schedule in pursuit of a bigger goal. There are those who assert they don’t have enough time, but even they can arrange the public library’s used book sale or a Saturday morning spent litter picking in the park.

We’re sure that by now you’ve heard a number of examples of companies giving back to the people who live around them. A sense of community goodwill builds from the volunteer work carried out by Adaptive Marketing’s staff, and the staff of companies like it, over the course of these company-supported programs. Helping others can make you feel like a better person — just the sort of feeling to make stafrf motivated both in their volunteer work and back behind their desks, too. Promoting the volunteer spirit among your staff members is beneficial in some very concrete ways, as we hope we’ve shown.

A Chronicle of Putney - from the Records

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Putney is a small part within the Manor of Wimbledon. It lies between the parishes of Wandsworth and Barnes and is bordered on the North by the Thames. It is within the hundred of Brixton, which is part of the county of Surrey. Early mentions of Putney can be seen in the Last Judgement Book, where it is referred to as Putenlie.

Earl Harold had this fishery in Mortelage (Mortlake) in the time of King Edward, and Archbishop Stigland looked after the same; however, it is said that Harold set it up by force during King Edwards reign in the land of Chingestune (Kingston), and in the land of Saint Paul’s.

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The Fishery
Owing to the Thames running along its border Putney has always seen a good connection with trades that are linked with this river had a strong association with trades associated with the river. According to an age old custom of the Manor of Wimbledon, In the early 1660s a fishery determined the best catch for March, April, & May, but this soon turned into money payment.

According to Guthrie the fishery continued until 1786, after which it is said to have been abandoned. Lyson tells us that even though no “fishery” remained in Putney after 1786, fishing was witnessed until the early part of the nineteenth century. Today fishing in this part of the world is restricted to the recreational amateurs.

The Putney Ferryboat
The Putney Ferry was seen in the 11th century and possibly even earlier. In the household accounts of Edward I (1272-1307) the ferry was twice mentioned.

The first is wherein Robert the Ferryman of Putney and other sailors were paid 3/6d for carrying much of the royal family across the Thames and also taking the king and his family to Westminster.

There were two types of ferry that could be obtained from Putney, the “long ferry” from Putney to London or Westminster and the “short ferry” which ran to Fulham. The first one was particularly availed of by foot passengers to avoid the bad roads. Horses could, of course, be acquired at the various inns in Putney which were close to the ferry.
History sourced by car rentals facts written by Friedrich Von StLpnagel