Project Shoreditch is a unique partnership between the East London Business Alliance, Deutsche Bank, Linklaters, UBS and the Shoreditch Trust with the aim of involving business to enable change in the community. Working directly with the Shoreditch Trust (the New Deal for Communities organisation in this area), Project Shoreditch is able to focus its objective to place employee volunteers into organisations within the area thus directly benefiting the community and assisting with regeneration of this deprived area of Hackney.

Project Shoreditch works with a wide variety of community groups, charities, tenants and residents’ associations and schools to support the regeneration of Shoreditch. Through its business partners, the project is able to tap into a potential pool of over 10,000 employees. Volunteers, where possible, match their skills, expertise and enthusiasm to the needs of the Shoreditch organisations.

Project Shoreditch was launched in April 2005 and to date employee volunteers from Deutsche Bank, Linklaters and UBS have supported a variety of Shoreditch based organisations through team challenges, pro-bono legal advice, business planning, mentoring, training, web design, workplace visits, tickets to London events, role model workshops, trips to art galleries and fundraising.

Over 2000 volunteers have been placed through the project in its first and second year, bringing with them over £60,000 of in-kind support.