Crisis corporate partnerships

The FT have been supporting Crisis since 1996 through the Crisis Christmas Card Challenge and to date this Campaign has raised almost £4.5m to enable Crisis to transform the lives of thousands of homeless people.

"Crisis is one of the most professional charitable organisations I have ever worked with. They are a key charity partner of the FT, and have built a great relationship with us over a number of years. We are delighted by the way in which their work appeals to all our employees at all levels."
Sue Eilfield, HR Director at the FT

Crisis is Dollar Thrifty's Charity of the Year 2005. They plan to raise £15,000 and are on course to reach this target through a wide range of fundraising initiatives including:

• Crisis Square Mile Run
• Online booking donations
• A golf day
• Wycombe Half Marathon
• Dress down Fridays
• Raffles
• December quiz
• Gift in kind support (vehicles) for Crisis Open Christmas
• Corporate Challenge at a Crisis Open Christmas shelter
• Crisis Winter Walkabout

“Dollar Thrifty is delighted to announce Crisis as our preferred charity for 2005. One of the benefits of running our business is that we can use some of our time and funds to help those less fortunate than ourselves. We hope that CRISIS will benefit a great deal from the Thrifty network’s ongoing commitment to them. “
Andrew Burton, MD Dollar Thrifty Car Rental UK

Bloomberg are one of Crisis’ largest Open Christmas supporters providing Gift in Kind donations for the project for the past 10 years, ranging from electrical engineers to goody bags distributed to all of our homeless guests who leave the shelters when they close on 30 December. Bloomberg also provide volunteers to help set-up the shelters in the first two weeks of Christmas. Thousands of litres of paint and hundreds of metres of carpet are used to refurnish the warehouses and derelict buildings to become homes during the Christmas period for over 1500 homeless people.

Crisis were delighted that one of our longest serving and most committed volunteers, Steve Thompson from Bloomberg, won 'Volunteer of the Year' at the 2005 Dragons Awards held by the Corporation of London. Read more about Steve Thompson, Volunteer of the Year

Legal & General employee Steve Barrey dreamed up a culinary caper to support Crisis Open Christmas this year. In a bid to raise cash for Crisis, staff at the insurance firm's 2 sites in Surrey and Sussex were encouraged to give up their usual restaurant luncheon fare for one week and opted instead for more charitable ‘soup and roll’ rations.

Colleagues paid just £1 with all proceeds going to Crisis, and for every £1 raised the insurer doubled the donation as part of its charitable giving programme. Steve said, “We’re always looking for some tasty ideas for charitable giving and this seemed to fit the bill. It allows us to be reminded that there are people out there less fortunate than ourselves, and gives us the chance to do something". The fundraiser raised over £5000 for Crisis Open Christmas with hopes to grow the idea and even persuade Britain’s other companies to become ‘Soupa Stars’ for the homeless in the future.

To get involved in 2006 email corporate partnerships or call 0207 426 3851