Businesses working with charities reap many mutual benefits from their relationship. To find out how, talk to The Children's Trust today.
National charity, The Children's Trust is the leading authority on brain injury in the UK. Although it has headquarters in Tadworth, Surrey, The Children's Trust is able to offer a combination of services to children throughout the UK including:
Residential care
Short breaks
Rehabilitation for children with acquired brain injury
Transitional care between hospital and home
Outreach - caring for children in their own home
The Children's Trust school for children with profound and multiple learning difficulties
The Children Trust continues to lead in the development of services for children with brain injury and constantly strives to help improve the lives of the children it cares for. You will not find anywhere else in the world that offers the extensive treatment programs for children who have experienced a brain injury. The Children's Trust is unprecendented in its creations and development of a teaching program for severely disabled children that works in parallel with the current state school curriculum.
It really is a unique place and it helps hundreds of children and their family's year on year. But it is an endless road for while they have children already in their care, each year another 3000 children are injured. With this in mind, The Children's Trust looks to its dedicated volunteers, fundraisers and local businesses to support the charity so that it can help even more children.
Meet Julia Hart - Community Fundraising Manager
It was after Julia Hart had run the London Marathon in April 09 for The Children's Trust that she felt compelled to join their award winning fundraising team. The reason? Julia was so taken with the life changing work of the charity. So in the summer of 2009, Julia became the Community Fundraising Manager for The Children's Trust, looking after the North East Home Counties. Talking about The Children's Trust Julia Hart says: "Working as a community fundraising manager for The Children's Trust is an exciting place to be in the world of charity right now".
Julia works with local businesses who want to support the charity and she says: "There is a lot of synergy between the business world and the charity sector - my role is to help local businesses see how they can gain from working in partnership with the charity."
Large blue chip companies gain enormous benefits from affiliating themselves with large national charities. These benefits include:
It improves profile locally, nationally and internationally
It creates media attention and increases PR opportunities with national news papers and radio stations
It adds to their Corporate Social Responsibility profile
It increases brand awareness
So Julia has been helping local businesses to gain similar benefits by working in partnership with The Children's Trust including:
helping you to raise your profile within the local community
creating media attention around you and your company.
helping you with free local advertising and PR
helping you fulfil your corporate and personal social responsibilities
helping to build your business brand.
If you are thinking about working with a charity and want to know how working with The Children's Trust can help You and Your business please contact Julia Hart on 01275 453878. To email Julia or to visit The Children's Trust website, please click the links at the top of this feature.
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