Impact Week
Our commitment to community investment
Deloitte's purpose is to make a meaningful impact for our clients, our people, and our communities. We have a portfolio of initiatives dedicated to addressing society's most significant challenges and working towards a more sustainable and equitable world. Our global social impact strategy, WorldClass, aims to address inequality and has a target of empowering 100 million people by 2030.
Activating our purpose and ambition through Impact Week
At Deloitte Ireland, our annual flagship event, 'Impact Week', is dedicated to volunteering our time and skills to charity partners in the community. The project’s goal is to bring our expertise to organisations in the community that would not normally have access to our resources.
Over the past five years, 'Impact Week’ has significantly scaled in size and reach. It has grown from a single 'Impact Day' to a week-long event. We have evolved from doing traditional volunteering (such as gardening and painting) to providing webinars, workshops and consultancy sessions that are aligned to the professional skills of our people. The project is now a complex cross-functional effort across Deloitte Ireland. This expansion reflects our commitment to making a meaningful and strategic impact in the community.
In 2023, Impact Week consisted of:
- Community volunteering projects at off-site locations, providing support to charities and schools (such as computer literacy classes for older people, conversational English sessions for asylum seekers/refugees, career ready sessions with school students). Our charities partners were strategically selected to align to our WorldClass business strategy.
- On-site sessions for guidance counsellors from schools across Dublin, who visited our offices to hear about our graduate entry routes, what we look to hire for in graduates.
