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How Your Company Can Help

"The work of the Trust is incredibly diverse. It is not just about delivering health and education messages to young people. Senior citizens also benefit from the Trusts inclusive approach to working within the Community"
Peter (Community Coach, Aged 74)

How your company can help

Southend Utd Community and Educational Trust corporate support strategy is a recent addition to the fundraising team. The focus is currently on building mutually beneficial partnerships with a small number of businesses, which have worked with the Trust in the past.

We will be working to establish new partnerships and identify the added value for businesses and Southend Utd Community and Educational Trust service users.

We are also exploring a number of other ways we can work with your company:

  • Cause Related Marketing: A publicly recognised partnership with a charity has been shown to incentivise customers to choose products and services associated with the company wherever there are transparent benefits for the charities service users
  • Sponsorship: We intend to develop a number of sponsorship opportunities with a particular emphasis on organisations that traditionally provide employment for the Charity"s service users
  • Corporate Donations: Your company can provide invaluable help through a direct donation. Your donation can be for a specific project, a specific group of young people or, most importantly, it can provide funding for the core costs of the charity. These costs are rarely strategically funded and are vital if the charity is to plan, develop and deliver new and important projects for the service user
  • Company Partnerships: Companies are increasingly working with a charity for a pre-established period of time. Anything from a year onwards. These partnerships need to be beneficial to organisations and enable staff to commit to an achievable and tangible outcome. The major benefit for your company is more often than not the PR opportunities, but there can also be real benefits in terms of staff development and community involvement.
  • Employee Involvement: Experience has shown that providing shared objectives and achievable goals can provide staff with a tangible incentive to work more closely with communities. The opportunity to provide a single purpose for your staff to support will produce outcomes that benefit the charity but more importantly, benefit the company. We provide opportunities for staff to be involved with the charity in the following ways:


Volunteering
Payroll Giving
Participation in events
Staff"s own fundraising efforts

For more information contact Ben Duncan on 01702 341351 or click here to e-mail.

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