Corporate fundraising

We are delighted to be able to secure and maintain long-term relationships with companies ranging from local small and medium businesses, to multi-national organisations across the South East and London. The corporate partnerships we hold offer essential support for the Royal London Society for the Blind to ensure we can continue to provide vital, independent specialist services to infants, children, young people and adults who are blind or visually impaired.

Our Corporate Fundraiser provides a broad expertise in delivering Charity of the Year Partnership proposals, Cause Related Marketing initiatives, as well as creating and developing bespoke innovative event and publication sponsorship proposals. We are able to take an enthusiastic, informed and proactive approach to ensure all our partnerships achieve their business objectives and to surpass their corporate social responsibility targets, which provide our corporate partners with a true sense of achievement.

To find out more about developing an exciting corporate partnership with RLSB, please get in touch with our Funding Partnership Manager, Margret McCulloch on 020 7808 6183 or at margaret.mcculloch@rlsb.org.uk

FIVE WAYS YOU CAN HELP RLSB

1. Make a donation: Donate to a particular specialist service area Dorton House Nursery, School, College educational or capital, Children and young people in transition – we can match your interests with an area of our work which best meets your corporate social responsibility objectives.

2. Make us your Charity of the Year: We’ve got so much more to do if we are going to help the thousands more people. So, we would be delighted if you would help us by making us your charity of the year and help us raise awareness and money!

3. Sponsor a corporate event: Throughout the year, we organise high-profile events with the purpose of informing people about the work we support or project area we are fundraising for. You can help by taking part, providing us with a venue, sponsoring an event or co-hosting a fundraising function for your employees at the beautiful Dorton House, Sevenoaks, Kent. The RLSB are able to offer first-class corporate hospitality at the prestigious grade II listed mansion house which is also home to our specialist Educational Campus.

4. Encourage employee fundraising: Our fundraising team can offer support, advice and information for you to promote challenging and exciting activities to you employees, from running and triathlon events to climbing Kilimanjaro.

5. Support us by ‘match giving’: Matching any money raised by your staff is good for morale – and doubles the money for RLSB!

FIVE WAYS RLSB CAN HELP YOU

1. Motivate and engage staff:A representative from RLSB can visit your office to talk to your staff about our work and then significant benefit your support can make to the blind and partially sighted infants to children, young people and adults we work with. We can bring along a Service Manager or specialist member of teaching staff to discuss the progress that individual project areas are making as a direct result of your charitable donations.

2. Raise the profile of your fundraising events: We can publicise your fundraising events, through our website, presence on online social networking sites, direct marketing and press releases.

3. Arrange networking opportunities: We can hold receptions at exculsive venues such as private member’s clubs in Central London or at Dorton House, the prestigious grade II listed mansion house which is also home to our Educational Campus in Sevenoaks. This offers you and your colleagues the opportunity to use these functions as high-profile networking events.

4. Professional support: We will assign an experienced account manager to help you plan and manage your fundraising activities across your company. We can liase closley with internal charity champions and offer helpful advice to any of your staff members taking part in an event to provide on-going support and encouragement.

5. Provide VIP tours of Dorton House School Campus: We can arrange VIP tours of Dorton House Educational Campus which incorporates Dorton House Nursery, School and College, or alternatively, facilitate meetings with front line service support staff. Visiting the campus is a unique experience and seeing our staff working with our students first-hand is highly motivating and inspiring.

The RLSB would like to thank our long-term partners Johnson Matthey, Goldman Sachs and Fidelity International for their continued support.