Corporate partnerships with CSV - sponsorship opportunities

Through our programmes we enable over 100,000 volunteers to provide community support to one million people each year.

As a leading edge volunteering and training community organisation we can offer many opportunities to help you meet your community support objectives.

We already have a track record of successful partnerships with corporate sponsors including:

• Barclays New Futures
• CSV Make a Difference Day with Barclays 

We are very keen to work with new corporate partners and develop pieces of work to help meet their community investment needs.

As a corporate supporter you could, for example,

• Sponsor our volunteer recruitment campaigns to mobilise thousands of people to make a difference in their community
• Encourage your staff to give to CSV through their payroll
• Host an event for CSV to reach opinion formers and change policy
• Challenge your employees to make a difference by volunteering with people who need them

Benefits include:

• Co-branding on volunteer recruitment materials and events
• Employee volunteering opportunities
• High profile public relations and publicity
• Association with the UK’s leading volunteering organisation
• Involvement in providing innovative solutions to social problems
• Demonstrable commitment to building local communities
• Contact with CSV’s partners in the voluntary sector

Sponsorship opportunities include:

• Citizenship education
• Gap year volunteering
• Social action broadcasting
• Media Clubhouses
• Volunteering campaigns
• Environmental action
• Youth Training programmes
• CSV website
• Retired and Senior Volunteer Programme
• Seminars

CSV’s Current Corporate Partnerships include:

CSV Make a Difference Day, supported by Barclays

CSV Make a Difference Day (held on the last Saturday of October each year) is the UK’s largest day of active volunteering. In 2005, more than 100,000 people made a difference, taking part in 4,000 activities. The aim of CSV Make a Difference Day is for people to donate time to good causes, thereby having a direct and positive impact upon their local communities.

Everyone who organises a CSV Make a Difference Day activity receives a free Action Pack containing practical advice on organising events and getting publicity. Included are a range of promotional materials and goodies such as balloons, t-shirts and tabards to let all volunteers know that CSV and Barclays appreciate their hard work.

Barclays supports this high-profile campaign as part of their commitment to communities, with an increasing number of staff taking part each year. 10,000 got involved in 2005, both across the UK and in parts of Africa.

Barclays New Futures

The UK’s largest education awards scheme, worth £1,000,000 per annum in grants, materials, professional support and advice to schools. The scheme provides students with opportunities to develop skills for life, work and citizenship through school/community partnerships. CSV delivers the project in partnership with Barclays.

Contact: Helen Stack on 020 7643 1340 or email hstack@csv.org.uk