Responsible Business
Colleagues
We’re providing our colleagues with opportunities for learning, education and professional development, while supporting them to look after their physical and mental wellbeing. We’re a proud supporter of diversity in the workplace reflecting the communities we serve.
Give Together
Give Together is Bank of Ireland's charity and community initiative. Through Give Together, UK colleagues lend their support to our flagship charity or a cause of their own choice by fundraising, volunteering or payroll giving. In 2017 Bank of Ireland’s UK flagship charity is Alzheimer’s Society.
Every year Bank of Ireland colleagues have the option to take a volunteering day and to apply for funding to support it. The Bank also matches colleague fund-raising.
One fund-raiser is Paul Lindsay from our Belfast office, who raised money for clean water projects by trekking in Africa. Read Paul’s story.
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Be At Your Best
Be At Your Best is Bank of Ireland’s professional career development and wellbeing programme. It's about investing in our colleagues - helping them to be as professional, successful, happy and healthy as possible.
There are three pillars to the Programme; Career, Mind and Body. Each with their own activities that are inspired, designed and delivered by colleagues who have volunteered to Be At Your Best Champions.
Lap the Lough
Bank of Ireland UK has been a proud sponsor of Lap the Lough, Northern Ireland’s largest cycling event, since 2015. Since it began in 2006, Lap the Lough has grown from strength to strength with Bank of Ireland entering over 160 participants last year from Northern Ireland, Bristol, London and Dublin. The event is open to employees, customers, friends and family and support is provided throughout training.
Head Shed
The Head Shed programme provides the opportunity for employees to participate in an engaging and innovative set of activities and workshops from leading experts and academics focusing on promoting positive mental health and wellbeing in the workplace and at home.
A focal point for the initiative is set up in communal areas, where employees can meet to discuss issues relating to mental wellbeing. Promotional materials are provided that can be taken away, and employees are encouraged to leave their tips and comments on mental wellbeing. The full programme of events varies from location to location with the initiatives being led by local Be at Your Best champions.
Living Partnership
Bank of Ireland UK brought its unique partnership strategy to life for colleagues who work in and support the business as part of an engaging series of events in 2016 and 2017 to engage employees in our strategy. More than 2,000 employees attended one of 12 ‘Partnership Bank Live’ events, held in 5 different locations across Northern Ireland and Great Britain.
Colleagues learnt about Bank of Ireland UK’s purpose, strategy and values, and heard about Living Partnership – a common thread which connects our business strategy with how we work together and deliver, in partnership, for our customers, partners, stakeholders and each other.
More than 300 colleagues have now signed up to be Living Partnership shapers, helping to shape the next steps on our partnership journey during 2017, and strengthening the importance of partnership in the offices and Branches where we work – all with the aim of creating a collaborative, empowering and successful place to work for themselves and their colleagues.
