Corporate partnerships with Crisis

Homelessness can't be ignored any longer.

Homelessness can be overwhelming. It's uncomfortable to confront. Sometimes the more we see it, the more we want to look away. But ignoring homelessness won't help us to end it. This crisis has reached urgent levels.

300,000 households across Great Britain could be forced into homelessness next year because of the rising cost of living and the economic and social impacts of the pandemic.

Get in touch with corporatepartnerships@crisis.org.uk if you want to learn how your company can support Crisis.

Becoming a partner of Crisis will support you and your colleagues to play a part in ending homelessness for good. The Partnerships team will help you to fundraise creatively and engage in inspiring volunteering opportunities, to show you the impact of your support.

Corporate supporters of Crisis give more than just money. Their time, energy and expertise supports homeless people at our Skylight centres to find their confidence and re-enter employment; our Research and Best Practice team to develop sector-leading campaigns and policy recommendations; and our Christmas guests to take their first steps out of homelessness.

Please get in touch with us today if you are interested in working with Crisis to end homelessness. If you are looking to make a one-off corporate gift, please donate here. If you would like to attend an event or webinar, please register to attend. If you are a business owner or senior colleague at your organisation and would like to make a large personal donation, please visit our philanthropy page.

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Strategic partnerships

Crisis' strategic partnerships go beyond simply providing staff with exciting ways to volunteer and fundraise. We work to build partnerships which make a lasting difference to our mission to end homelessness.

Our strategic partnerships can offer your company:

The chance to fund a unique project, service or role.
Opportunities to influence housing policy at a national level.
Innovation workshops and the chance to use your expertise to develop Crisis' resources and staff.

We deliver partnerships with the power to transform the lives of the some of the most vulnerable members of society, whilst also meeting your corporate social responsibility objectives and engaging your staff.

Our strategic partnerships deliver big impact, both for corporate supporters and our members.

Inspire your staff

Your account manager will work with you and your colleagues to devise a unique programme of engagement opportunities designed around your needs and wants. We offer a range of fun, memorable team-building opportunities, and occasions for your staff to volunteer their time and skills to help homeless people. Your staff could:

Support members at our Skylight centres by volunteering on our employability programmes. Offer support to guests at Crisis at Christmas centres across Britain.
Challenge yourself to fundraise for annual events such as the Icebreaker and Stay Awake for Crisis
Take part in a challenge event on behalf of Crisis such as the Three Peaks Challenge, the Jurassic Coast Trek or a running event
Set up a monthly donation to Crisis through payroll giving platform GoodPaye
Make use of our free Will writing service with Farewill, online or over the phone with an option to leave a gift for Crisis.

Grow your brand

Publicly associating your brand with Crisis can also be a powerful way of increasing your sales, improving customer loyalty and reaching out to and engaging with new audiences.

The Partnerships team can offer tailored communications to engage your audiences in ending homelessness.

Your account manager can work with you to develop a cause-related marketing campaign, where a portion of sales of a product are donated to Crisis.

Companies who support our Crisis Christmas campaign play an important part of our work to support people out of homelessness.

To thank you, we'll promote your company's brand to the UK's business elite in a double page spread in the Financial Times, running twice each December. We will also provide you with digital assets to share your company's support to end homelessness with stakeholders and staff.

Volunteer your time

The team design engagement calendars for all of our corporate partners who are able to commit to a minimum fundraising target of £20,000.

These calendars include a range of seasonal and ad hoc volunteering opportunities for teams and individuals.

Unfortunately, due to the popularity of our volunteering programme, we are not able to offer opportunities to companies who are looking to source one-off team events.

To find out more about the kinds of volunteering opportunities available at Crisis, and how you can play a role in ending homelessness, please contact the Partnerships team today.

Gift-in-kind partnerships

Your company can support Crisis work to end homelessness by donation gifts in kind such as clothing, books, small homeware objects and vinyl records to our Shops from Crisis. Please have a look here to find one of our shops and more information about the items we can accept.

Each year during Crisis at Christmas we receive thousands of donations from the public and corporate partners which allow us to run our Christmas services and give guests a Christmas to remember. Donations include toiletries, clothing, tea, biscuits, gloves and chargers. Please get in touch with the Corporate Partnerships team to find out which items we would especially love for next Christmas.

Our Housing Teams work tirelessly to find adequate accommodation for our members (people experiencing homelessness). However, once we are able to house somebody they are often in need of essential items such as white goods, crockery and furniture, if your company has access to these items and would be interested in exploring donating these to Crisis please contact the Partnerships team.

Make a donation

£500

could fund a programme of sessions for someone who is struggling with their mental health.

£1000

could run a Renting Ready course to help people find and keep a home of their own.

£2500

could help run an English or Maths class for a term.

£5000

could fund an English or Maths class for an entire year, including tests and qualifications.

Your support changes lives

"I was delighted to use my professional skills to assess grant applications, and support people in getting their business plans viable, and hopefully successful. Crisis are playing such a big part in tackling homelessness, and I am very grateful to PwC for giving me and others time to volunteer, and to live our values of building trust in the society and solving important problems." - Kate, PwC Volunteer

Lloyds Banking Group

Our partnership with Lloyds Banking Group is our biggest to date and is set to raise an incredible £2 Million over a two-year period.

Alongside Simon Community, our delivery partner in Northern Ireland, we will empower Lloyds Banking Group colleagues to better understand the causes and the prevalence of homelessness and inspire them to play their part in ending it.

Lloyds Banking Group will also support us in partnering with Homes for Good, to establish a new lettings agency which will improve access to good quality, affordable housing for those experiencing homelessness.

We are hugely thankful for the tireless efforts and dedication of Lloyds Banking Group thus far. Our shared believe that everyone should have access to a safe and secure home makes us a formidable transformative force.

We look forward to sharing updates and achievements of the partnership very soon! If you'd like to read further details, see our recent blog post.

Some of our corporate partners

Partnerships News

Stay up to date on the latest from the corporate partnerships team at Crisis.

This Christmas new and long-term partners have generously given their time volunteering, raised essential funds and donated large amounts of stock to support our Christmas guests. Let's have a look at the different ways corporate partners supported Crisis this Christmas.

Read more 13/02/24

Starting to think about what this Black Friday looks like for your organisation this year and want to provide an impactful experience for your community at check out? Your company could run an Anti-Black Friday campaign instead to take a stance against consumerism and supporting Crisis at the same time.

Read more 13/02/24

John Frieda launch their Crisis x Volume Lift range for World Homeless Day

Across October, 50p from every limited edition John Frieda Volume Lift product sold will support Crisis to end homelessness.

Read more 13/02/24

Thank you to our Berkeley and St George's plc volunteers

During August 6 volunteers from Berkeley/ St George’s plc kindly came in for 4 days to help us transform the courtyard at our Brent Skylight, being very considerate to not impact our day-to-day services in the process. They also generously covered the cost and materials (estimated at around £10,000) of the re-design, transforming the courtyard into a welcoming space for members.

Read more 13/02/24

This May our partner PwC held their 13th annual firmwide fundraising and volunteering event ‘One Firm One Day’ which encourages employees across the country to take time out to support their local communities and national charity partners. This year's ‘One Firm One Day’ activities included a Fun Run, a Shops from Crisis pop-up shop and many more.

Read more 13/02/24

Lockdown has challenged Crisis and our corporate partners to engage staff in new ways. The partnerships team have reflected on how Crisis staff have been supported since the pandemic began, and reached out to some of our corporate partners to understand how they have engaged their staff in this past year of remote working and uncertainty.

Blog - Christmas support from our Corporate Partners

We would like to say a huge thank you to our corporate partners for their continued support last year during the coronavirus outbreak and for working with us to ensure that no one was homeless and alone over the Christmas period.

Read more 18/04/23

Blog - The virtue of virtual gifts, and how companies can play their part

Lockdown has prompted many among us to become highly creative in the ways we connect with loved ones and colleagues, and as such virtual gifts have experienced a renaissance of sorts. The Tesco Mobile (SIM) card campaign took Crisis' virtual fundraising to a new level in Christmas 2020 with our first ever collaborative gift, with Tesco Mobile staff and customers raising an incredible total of over £75,000 in support of our work to end homelessness.