The Sick Children's Trust - Corporate Support

Safron Building Society cheque presentation Corporate Support

By supporting The Sick Children's Trust your company is guaranteed to be making a difference to hundreds of families' lives across the UK. Working with us can also provide you with a strong partnership that can be mutually beneficial, professional and innovative.

There are many ways your company can support us in a tax-effective and mutually beneficial way. We have a presence in Cambridge, London, Leeds, Newcastle and Sheffield but we support families from across the UK and overseas. So whether you're a local or national business there are many ways we can work together.

The benefits of working with us include:

Supporting The Sick Children's Trust can have an extremely positive impact on your company image and the staff it employs
Image and Publicity
Provides a positive corporate image to both staff and clients
Immediate positive connotations of associating with our charity name
Increase of favourable publicity with support from our dedicated PR team
Strong Association with our core values and helping the nation's most seriously ill children
A Bricks and Mortar cause (Our work is tangible and you can clearly see what we do).

Marketing advantages include:

Product promotion and increasing sales
Reach a wider audience
A direct link with a widespread national demographic
A strong reputation within the local communities in which we operate
Staff motivation and team building
Volunteering opportunities and opportunities for staff to develop new skills.

Click here to read about how you can support us At Work.

Our existing corporate donors

Bank of England
The Bank of England have supported our Homes in London and in Cambridge over the last few years.

Barclays Capital
Barclays Capital sponsor bedrooms in Stevenson House

Bibby Distribution Ltd

Ian Allsop of BDL is supporting 'The Big Move' relocation project in Leeds by organising fundraising events and providing access to local businesses to reduce our moving costs .

Catlin
Catlin Underwriting have been involved with The SCT for many years. Most recently, we have benefited from Catlin staff’s involvement in a sponsored triathlon event, use of their office space for a reception to celebrate our 25th Anniversary, and a company donation for the development of this new website. Catlin also help collect foreign currency and old mobile phones which we can recycle, turning these into money we can spend on providing our ‘Homes from Home’.

Stephen Catlin is the Chief Executive of the company. He, together with Catlin’s Charities Committee, have demonstrated a great commitment to the families we support. This partnership is a great example of what can be achieved when a company and charity come together.

Bordeaux Index
Gary Boom is a member of The SCT Board of Trustees. He is also Managing Director of Bordeaux Index, and through Gary, the company sponsored a fundraising reception and our Stars Behind Bars event in September 2007.

Poster Frames by Green Magic

Green Magic kindly donated mini snap poster frames to go outside every bedroom enabling existing sponsors to be acknowledged and to encourage additional sponsorship of rooms.

Mars UK
Sponsor one of our bedrooms at Eckersley House in Leeds and we are currently arranging a visit for Mars UK representatives to view the 'Home from Home' and hear about the families who are benefiting from our, and Mars UK, support.

Northumbrian Water

NWL have supported Crawford House in Newcastle since 2007. Not only have they raised money for us, but recently an enthusiastic team of employees redecorated 16 bedrooms at Crawford House to a very high standard as part of their community care initiative called 'Just An Hour' - whereby employees are encouraged to donate a minimum of 15 hours of their time to a community project

Veolia

Both London and Sheffield branches are working alongside The SCT to create new fundraising ideas to help raise funds as well as our profile.