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Corporate partnerships with 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 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 help prevent people from sleeping rough by paying for emergency accommodation while we support them to find permanent housing.

£1,000 could provide a year's worth of one-to-one support and coaching from a lead worker, enabling someone to develop their plans, achieve their goals and build a life beyond homelessness.  

£1,500 could fund translation services in one of our Skylights for one month, so that we can provide support to people who do not speak English.

£2,000 could help seven people set up their new home, for example buying soft furnishings, white goods and kitchenware.

£6,500 could go towards initial advice and guidance from our Engagement and Assessment team for 20 people experiencing homelessness.

£10,500 could pay for one-to-one support with Crisis Lead Workers, who  deliver high quality support and coaching to enable members to develop their plans, achieve their goals and build a life beyond homelessness.

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

Specsavers

Our partnership with Specsavers helps to provide free eye and ear care to people experiencing homelessness and has been supported with over £1 million in pledged funding over the last three years.

Through this partnership, Specsavers staff volunteer their time to offer eye tests, hearing checks, and free glasses year round at Crisis Skylight centres and during the annual Crisis at Christmas event.

The collaboration has also funded a wellbeing space in the Crisis Edinburgh Skylight and continually raises awareness of the barriers people affected by homelessness face in accessing healthcare. By combining expertise in eye and ear care with Crisis’s mission to end homelessness, the partnership helps restore dignity, improve wellbeing, and create clearer pathways to a better future.

Some of our corporate partners

Partnerships News

NHBC x Crisis: London to Amsterdam cycle 2025

NHBC team pedals 4,260 miles to support Crisis – raising over £29,000 on the London to Amsterdam challenge

Read more 06/10/25

Crisis Skylight Merseyside gets a UNIQLO glow-up

Crisis’s support centre for people experiencing homelessness in Merseyside has been transformed by volunteers from Liverpool’s Uniqlo store.

Read more 18/09/25

Crisis x Trueform

Partnered with Crisis since 2024, Trueform Engineering Ltd are a pioneering technology and manufacturing company that provide leading products, specialist engineering solutions and field support services for all modes of passenger transport.

Read more 16/06/25

Crisis x Canva: Skylight Croydon refurb

At the end of last year, our amazing partners at Canva, the world’s leading all-in-one platform for visual communication and collaboration, joined us to fund, redesign and refit our basement space at Croydon Skylight as part of Canva’s Step Two Plan.

Read more 26/06/25

Crisis x Papa John's: Crisis at Christmas and 2025 partnership

We’re excited to announce a new partnership between Crisis and Papa John’s for 2025!

Read more 26/06/25

Celebrating three years of partnership with Specsavers!

This Christmas marks the third anniversary of our partnership with Specsavers. Over the past two years, we've seen this collaboration grow into a truly strategic and impactful corporate partnership. Let’s take a moment to reflect on some of the highlights from this partnership.

Read more 26/06/25

Specsavers staff provide free healthcare appointments for Crisis members

Specsavers and Crisis are working together to remove healthcare barriers for people experiencing homelessness. Specsavers do this through myriad of ways, for example by running regular eye and ear care clinics for Crisis members across our 9 Skylights.

Read more 05/08/24

Create your own Pop-up Shop for Crisis

Our corporate partners can host a collection drive and pop-up shop in their offices to raise vital funds in support of Crisis.

Read more 26/06/25

Crisis Homelessness Awareness Training for corporate partner staff

The Partnerships team delivered a half-day training on the causes of and solutions to homelessness, and what partners can do to support our work to end homelessness.

Read more 26/06/25

HARI's salon provides free haircuts for Crisis members

Crisis partnered with HARI's hair salon and Wella to provide free haircuts and products to people experiencing homelessness.

Read more 30/07/25

What happens after Crisis at Christmas?

Christmas case management team leader Tom Prendiville talks us through how his team supports people to leave homelessness behind after our Crisis at Christmas campaign comes to an end each January.

Read more 09/05/24

The Berkeley Group supports Crisis at Christmas

Our corporate partners are vital for the success of Crisis at Christmas. Long-standing partner Berkeley Group and their employees fundraised and volunteered their time over Christmas to support our life changing activities.

Read more 09/05/24

Vida raises £150,000 for Crisis over three-year partnership

The specialist lender have donated more than £150,000 to Crisis since the start of our partnership in 2020.

Read more 09/05/24

LK Bennett raise £8,600 for Crisis through sales of winter coats

Our corporate partner LK Bennett donated £20 per winter coat sold throughout November to support people experiencing homelessness.

Read more 13/12/23

Virgin Media 02 partners with Crisis to provide devices and data for people experiencing homelessness

Crisis has partnered with Virgin Media O2 and Good Things Foundation to provide access to free devices and data for people supporting people experiencing, and at risk of, homelessness.

Read more 30/07/25

Crisis x Financial Times campaign: A thank you to our partners

Let this Christmas be the start of life beyond homelessness: A thank you to our Financial Times sponsors.

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

City Sprint keeps Crisis service running

Logistics company CitySprint have been a loyal support of Crisis for over a decade, ensuring the smooth running of our services at Christmas and all year round.

Read more 14/02/24

Bensons for Beds ‘go red’ for Crisis

On 10 July staff from Bensons put their heads together to develop their innovative ‘Red Day’ spanning the length and breadth of their business to raise funds for Crisis.

Read more 13/02/24

DFS supporting Crisis' members to feel at home

We would like to say a huge thank you to our partner DFS who gifted sofas, armchairs and footstools worth £200,000 to Crisis members (people experiencing homelessness) across the country over the past 2 years.

Read more 13/02/24

Crisis celebrates a year in partnership with Zoopla

This September, Zoopla and Crisis are celebrating a year of working together to make homelessness in Great Britain a thing of the past.

Read more 14/02/24
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