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.

TDS Charitable Foundation

The private rented sector can be difficult to navigate for many. It becomes even more difficult if you’re struggling with money or experiencing mental health problems, and these pressures can build up until people are pushed to the brink of homelessness.

While we know that the private rented sector can present a number of challenges, we also believe that it is part of the solution to homelessness.

Crisis’ three-year partnership with the TDS Charitable Foundation aims to make the private rented sector work better for people facing homelessness. The TDS Charitable Foundation is supported by TDS Group, the provider of England and Wales’ leading Tenancy Deposit Scheme. They share our belief that safe and affordable homes are the foundation for a decent life.

Read our blog post to learn more.

The impact of our partnership so far

“It’s probably the most difficult time to access any housing right up and down the country.”

Our partnership with Tenancy Deposit Scheme is funding housing specialists at Crisis, like Peter, who work directly with landlords, letting agents and people experiencing homelessness. Peter works to match landlords and tenants, finding people the right homes and providing ongoing support so that tenancies can last.

Together, we’re making it easier for people facing homelessness to access good private rented accommodation – and moving closer to ending homelessness for good.

Watch the video to find out more.

TDS Group have recently launched My Housing Issue Gateway, a free, interactive website providing anyone renting, whether privately or via social housing, with simple, straightforward and stress-free support to solve housing problems.

Some of our corporate partners

Partnerships News

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 06/11/25

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 06/11/25

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