Empowering Our Communities

Volunteering

Colleagues are encouraged to use their 14 hours (pro rata) community allowance by taking part in skills-based volunteering.

We continue to develop and promote our volunteering programme, focused on providing opportunities where we can create the biggest impact, as identified through our materiality assessment. Our main aim is to support children and young people as they prepare for life after education, widening access to careers in our sector, and improving life-chances in areas of the UK where social mobility has been identified as a key issue. We work with a range of third parties to achieve this, including:

• Chapter One
• Envision
• Governors for Schools
• PRIME
• City St George’s, University of London
• The Catalyst Collective.

Read about our culture of volunteering

Read our World Youth Skills Day blog

Charity

Irwin Mitchell has a long history of supporting good causes, either through the work we do to support clients or through fundraising and charity partnerships. 

Our charity partners

Our colleague selected charity partners are Maggie’s, the National Literacy Trust and Teenage Cancer Trust.

Discover how we’re helping our charities improve digital inclusion

Read about the impact we’re making with our charity partners

The Irwin Mitchell Charities Foundation

The Irwin Mitchell Charities Foundation (IMCF) is an independent registered charity, established in 1997 by colleagues to relieve poverty, hardship, and distress in the communities we operate in. 

Since then, over £3m has been donated to good causes. The IMCF’s work includes supporting our charity partners, topping up the personal fundraising efforts of colleagues, donating to homeless charities and foodbanks each winter and appeals by the Disaster Emergency Committee.

Please note that Irwin Mitchell and the Irwin Mitchell Charities Foundation aren't currently seeking applications for charity partners and may be unable to respond to requests.