About us
Three Hands is a small company that makes an impact on business – by developing and engaging people, and bringing them closer to the communities in which they work – and an impact on society – by directly benefiting community organisations.
Our mission is to develop organisations and their people by helping them to understand, experience, engage with and benefit the communities in which they operate.
Three Hands was set up in 1998 and initially concentrated on overseas charity challenge events in developing countries. However, by 2003 we had organised our first ever community-based learning & development programme; the
‘Children’s Hospital Playbox Challenge’ saw a sales team from Pfizer take on a 5 day project to benefit the small charity Action for Sick Children (Scotland). The programme won a National Training Award and Three Hands’ concept of developing people through community engagement was born.
The services we provide to business have evolved into three main areas:
learning & development – experiential learning projects for employees from graduates to leaders;
community projects – addressing employee engagement needs through initiatives such as charity partnerships and team projects; and
consultancy – providing our expertise to support companies in their community engagement and learning & development efforts.
Our projects take place both in the UK and overseas in developing countries.
We have built up a small
team of core employees and associates with a wealth of experience in sustainability, CSR and community engagement, team, talent and leadership development, project management and event management.
Finally, we are proud to work with clients such as Sky, Legal & General, O2, Guardian News & Media, Danone, Fujitsu and Centrica.