My work gives me five volunteer days per year.
I can do volunteer work five days a year, and the only requirements are that it must be for a UK-registered charity and has to be approved by my line manager.
How can I game this? Ideally, I would like to use these other holidays.
So far, the best idea I have come up with is for the canal and river trust (a registered charity) to do volunteer litter picks at the canal for three a month. I could book days off to do that and get half the day off on full pay. But that involves having to litter pick for 3 hours (not too bad for me actually, it would be a nice break from the computer), but the main reason I don't want to do this is I have to look my line manager in the face and tell him I want time off to pick litter rather than work!
Any ideas or suggestions would be much appreciated.