Have you seen any benefit from staff engaging with local communities?

A House of Lords select committee on citizenship and civic engagement has published an inquiry and quoted evidence given by CIPD's Chief Community Officer, Katerina Rudiger: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201719/ldselect/ldcitizen/118/11802.htm

Katerina mentioned that employers who encourage employees to engage with their local community (e.g. through volunteering) benefit from increased:

• Staff engagement
• Health and wellbeing
• Skills development (e.g. communication skills and team working)
• Better understanding of the communities they operate in (including their customers)

Have you seen any of these employer / employee benefits? Perhaps through volunteering or some other engagement method?