Corporate partnerships with Crisis

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

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.

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. 

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

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. 

Our corporate partner John Frieda provided free haircuts and a creative arts workshop for members of Crisis Skylight London.

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

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.

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.

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.

Let’s talks volunteering! This month, from Thursday 1st to Wednesday 7th June, we’ve given a spotlight to our incredible Crisis volunteers as we celebrate Volunteers’ Week 2023; but what’s it all about?

Find out more about PwC's special month of May and the firm wide ‘One Firm One Day’ (OFOD) initiative, where colleagues dedicate a day in their calendar to give back to worthy causes and their local communities.

This month we’re celebrating our partnership with bed retailer Bensons for Beds who started supporting Crisis during Christmas 2022 through their "Simply by Bensons" donation campaign.

With 2023 now upon us and Crisis at Christmas 2022 complete, we look back at the amazing efforts of our corporate partners over the festive season, without whom our running our vital services wouldn’t be possible.

Zoopla's Charlie Bryant and Crisis' Matt Downie sat down at our London Skylight to talk about our partnership to date and plans for the future.

After three years of working together the partnership between Crisis and the QBE Foundation is coming to its natural end, and so we look at the partnership and the achievements possible with QBE’s incredible support.

John Frieda provided free salon sessions and haircare items for people experiencing homelessness at our Christmas centres across London.

Co-founded by Crisis, to kick off the new year we’re introducing our partners at GoodPAYE, the Payroll Giving Platform making it easier for employees to donate to charity tax-free.

They’ve recently donated bedding, towels and lamps from their gorgeous homeware range to help our Skylight feel like home for our members.

Specsavers will be working with Crisis this Christmas, and over the next 12 months, to improve access to vital health services including eye and hearing care for people experiencing homelessness.

John Frieda is supporting Crisis by providing haircuts and styling for its members, throughout the year and as part of our Crisis at Christmas service.

We are delighted to be re-opening our doors to our incredible supporters this year, with in-person events and tours of our support services seeing corporate partners return to our flagship Skylight centre.

In a major new partnership, Crisis and Zoopla have joined together to call on the government to urgently invest in housing benefit.

Since the beginning of our partnership, Tesco Mobile have made an incredible donation of just under £942,000 to Crisis Skylight members across Great Britain.

A huge thank you to the Wimbledon Foundation for gifting four centre court tickets to members (people experiencing homelessness) and staff from our London-wide Housing First team.

In this blog, we share how Crisis is committed to supporting people at risk of or experiencing homeless during the cost of living crisis.

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.

For the past three years, in partnership with The Berkeley Foundation, Crisis has been developing and implementing a ‘place-based’ approach to ending homelessness in the London Borough of Brent.

Ali Roberts, Senior Account Management Lead, and Annika Heinrich, Partnerships Administrator, share their thoughts on in-person events and how important their return is for impactful partnerships.

We would like to thank the Ford Motor Company Fund for supporting Crisis at Christmas for the second year in a row.

Papa John’s raised vital funds by making a donation to Crisis for every festive meal deal sold throughout November and December, as well as by donating profits from their Christmas Jingle ‘Better of Together’.

The incredible team raised £27,815 through a digital, social media and in-store campaign in support of our Crisis at Christmas appeal.

We are delighted that 13 amazing companies decided to join Connect for Crisis 2021, together we raised over £150,000 for Crisis at Christmas and our year-round services.

Since 2017, JLL has raised an amazing £1.28M! What started as a 2-year partnership extended into a fruitful 5 years of working together, helping Crisis to support over 1,300 members through our Housing Coaches.

As another year closes on Crisis at Christmas, we want to say thank you to all our wonderful existing and new corporate partners that chose to support Crisis at Christmas this year.

We are so grateful for the many amazing brands who chose to partner with Crisis during Black Friday Week 2021.

Crisis are thrilled to be partnering with Papa John’s once again this Christmas.

After last year’s exceptional success and the great feedback from our supporters, the corporate partnership team is excited to announce the launch of Connect for Crisis for the second time.

Since 2013, Crisis and The Berkeley Foundation have worked in partnership to help end homelessness. Read about what we have been able to achieve, together.

Head of Innovation Jem Henderson reports on the October Entrepreneurship forum, featuring corporate partners Sky and PWC.

This Sunday 10 October, Network Rail staff marked World Homeless Day by supporting Routes out of Homelessness.

Ali, our Senior Partnerships Lead, looks back on how employee fundraising has changed over the years, and announces our new employee fundraising product.

Housing First is proven to end homelessness for around 80% of people with complex needs. That's why we are calling for a full roll-out across England, Scotland and Wales.

Last month, we delivered the second instalment of our Crisis Homelessness Awareness Training (CHAT) course for key partners and supporters.

Recent changes to the Immigration Rules for people sleeping rough will make it even harder for people to get the support they need to find a safe home.

Cash-strapped charities don’t have to break the bank to achieve growth. And you don't have to feel embarrassed about helping them.

An introduction to our Corporate Partnerships team.

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.

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.

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.