Corporate Volunteering Opportunities Abroad

Volunteering Solutions designs corporate volunteering trips abroad for companies that want their CSR commitment to produce something real: a week of hands-on work that a community actually asked for, planned end to end by one accountable partner. Since 2007 we have hosted more than 25,000 volunteers across 23 countries, and corporate teams have worked with us on childcare and teaching support, care for people with disabilities and community development projects.

Whether you are a startup sending its first team of eight or a multinational planning an annual CSR programme, the format is the same: tell us your dates, group size and goals, and our groups team designs the project, itinerary and logistics around them. Your people show up and do meaningful work; we handle everything else.

Corporate travel comes with duty-of-care obligations that a DIY volunteering trip cannot meet. We are a certified B Corp with 19 years of experience, and every group trip includes risk assessments, safeguarding policies, financial protection and 24/7 in-country support as standard. Our in-country teams in every destination have hosted volunteer groups for years — they run your orientation, supervise the project work and stay on call around the clock.

Just as importantly, the projects themselves are long-running local partnerships, not photo opportunities created for visitors. Your team joins work that continues after they fly home, which is exactly the difference employees notice — and the reason corporate volunteering builds more genuine engagement than another conference room away-day.

One partner also means one contract, one invoice and one point of contact from first enquiry to the flight home — no juggling separate providers for accommodation, transport, projects and support.

Some projects suit visiting teams of colleagues especially well — work that absorbs many hands at once, shows visible progress within a week, and needs no prior experience:

Construction and renovation — repainting classrooms, repairing community buildings and improving school facilities alongside local tradespeople. Environmental work — beach clean-ups, mangrove and tree planting, and marine conservation projects on the coasts of Sri Lanka, Bali and beyond. Teaching support — conversation practice, activity sessions and sports days at partner schools. Community development — supporting community centres, food programmes and local initiatives that benefit a whole neighbourhood. Wildlife projects — habitat work and daily care tasks at wildlife conservation sanctuaries.

Browse the full range of causes on our volunteer abroad programs page, or shortlist a few short-format programs below — any of them can be adapted for a corporate group.

Corporate teams can volunteer in any of our 23 destinations. These are the ones companies pick most often:

Portugal and Spain — short-haul from anywhere in Europe, ideal for impact days attached to an offsite. Morocco — under four hours from most European capitals with a genuine change of scene. Bali and Thailand — well-connected hubs with strong project variety and easy weekend excursions. Sri Lanka — beach clean-ups, turtle conservation and teaching projects close together on the south coast. Kenya and South Africa — high-impact community and conservation work with a safari weekend built in. India — our longest-running destination, with two decades of project relationships in Delhi, Palampur and beyond.

Employers need more reassurance than a typical traveller, and the trip is structured accordingly. Before you commit, you receive a full proposal covering the project, accommodation, transport and risk assessment. On the ground, your group stays in vetted accommodation with meals included, moves between airport, house and project by arranged transport, and has a named coordinator from our in-country team on call 24/7.

We operate under safeguarding and child protection policies on every project involving minors, and your payment is financially protected — if we ever had to cancel your program, you would receive a full refund. Volunteering Solutions is a UK-registered company and a certified B Corp, so we are held to account for both.

Corporate trips are quoted per group, because destination, group size, duration and accommodation standard all move the number. As a benchmark, our individual one-week placements start from US$285 per person; a corporate group quote adds tailoring and dedicated coordination, and covers accommodation, meals, airport transfers, project logistics and 24/7 in-country support in one figure — so the price you see is genuinely close to the price you pay.

Most companies find a volunteering week costs no more than a conventional offsite once hotels, venues and catering are totalled — it simply produces more. Request a proposal below and we will price your exact group with no obligation.

Use the enquiry form below to tell us your dates, group size and goals, and our groups team will send a tailored proposal. You can also explore our other group programs — group volunteering abroad, university and college groups, school trips and family volunteering — or read more about Volunteering Solutions and the standards we work to.