Corporate Partnerships
Supporting skylarks as a business
At Skylarks we believe the best partnerships are formed when we work closely with corporate supporters over a number of years and both organisations gain greater understanding and deeper links between individuals from the partnership. We fundamentally believe a partnership is a two-way process and a long-term commitment.
As such, we try to work closely with our partner organisations to help them understand the breadth and depth of what Skylarks does, and how we work. Just as important as sharing what we do, is finding out about the company and understanding what they do, what they are trying to achieve and their challenges, so that we can make a positive impact along that journey.
What makes a successful business relationship?
Our most successful and loyal corporate partners have embraced working with us and have engaged with us on a number of levels, including:
- sponsoring activities and events
- entering teams to our fundraising events
- providing materials and/or services free of charge
- providing pro bono support and training from employees
- adopting payroll giving for employees
- recruiting volunteers to help at our events
- providing access to facilities for meetings.
See our corporate pages for some inspiration.
Ways to support
You can choose to support Skylarks in many different ways. Pick and choose from any of the following and follow the links to greater detail.
Chosen Charity/Charity of the Year
Galvanise your staff behind an inspiring cause and demonstrate your company’s commitment to making a difference by nominating us as your Charity of the Year.
Sponsorship opportunities
We have many different sponsorship opportunities, ranging from sponsoring one (or more!) of our projects to supporting part of all of one of our fundraising events.
Challenges and events
Why not get involved with one of our challenges or annual events, promoting team building and a sense of achievement among your employees while raising vital funds to support children with additional needs?
Gifts in kind
Behind the scenes are a team of amazing people making sure that Skylarks is supporting children and young people with additional needs, helping them grow, develop, and learn new skills so that they can make the most of life. You can support us by givigin your time, or products to help us deliver this fantastic work.
Employee fundraising and match fundraising
Support your employees with their charity fundraising by encouraging them to get involved or by matching their fundraising efforts, pound for pound.
Cause-related marketing / commercial partnerships
Cause-related marketing can be beneficial to companies who wish to partner with us for mutual benefit. Find out about what we consider to be a commercial partner and how we set about creating that relationship.
Payroll or pension giving
Both of these methods of giving to Skylarks are simple ways to support us and enables your employees to get tax relief while donating. A win win!
Corporate volunteering
If your company is interested in supporting Skylarks through volunteering, please see our corporate volunteering page where we list available options.
Tax-effective giving
There are several ways that you can support Skylarks through a financial donation in a tax-efficient way, ranging from donating to charity through a limited company to sponsoring us and other ideas in between.
Next steps
Explore our corporate fundraising kit, where you will find everything you need to help you with your fundraising ventures.
If you're interested in talking to us about a corporate partnership, please email fundraising@skylarks.charity