Read about how beneficial the Web Team found their Community Challenge day in their blog post 'Birch Engine Optimisation'.

The benefits of Community Challenges

The benefits are many:

Communities

Will benefit from having additional resources where they are most needed to add value with minimal additional work.

University

Demonstrates publicly to the community its mission values in practice, underlining our commitment to reaching out to all sections of the community.

Individuals

This is an opportunity to develop and enhance a wide range of skills and competences you may never have had the chance to use before or maybe didn’t even know you had.

Teams

  • A project which connects you to the local community
  • Improved team working skills and cohesiveness
  • An opportunity to work together on a common task with a common goal outside the scope of the normal remit of the team
  • Any barriers are broken down as members are placed together on a level footing
  • You will have the opportunity to take on new roles and discover things about colleagues which will benefit the overall effectiveness if the team once back in the workplace.