Guideposts Corporate Partnerships
Corporate
Partnerships
“Guideposts is a people centred charity, we care passionately about the communities we serve. We exist to ensure that people can be connected to their community and feel part of society.”
– CEO, Guideposts
Who we are
We’re Guideposts Trust. Our mission is to ensure that nobody with mental health challenges, learning disabilities or dementia is left behind.
We run a range of services that are focused on helping people to achieve their potential regardless of their circumstances. We connect people together so that they can experience the joy that comes from friendship, activity, learning, purpose and occupation. We love what we do and we love seeing people flourish.
Working together
We are looking for new corporate partnerships. By working in partnership with Guideposts, your business can support people living with long term conditions, disability, or caring responsibilities to improve their mental health and wellbeing and help them feel included in their local communities.
Why organisations partner with Guideposts Trust
Purpose-driven businesses earn more loyalty
Customers are increasingly looking to buy from businesses that are purpose driven. A partnership with us will help you to both meet your corporate social responsibilities and give you a more purpose driven agenda to communicate your philanthropic ethos to your customer base.
Strong opportunities for cross promotion
Brand awareness and promotion. We will promote your business to our growing community of supporters in person, at events and via our marketing channels.
Unite your staff with a shared charitable mission
A charity partnership with us will help to unite your staff in a shared fundraising goal which helps to encourage teamwork and a sense of togetherness.
Let’s get to know each other
We want to work with businesses who share our belief in building people up to their full potential and helping them to overcome social challenges. If that sounds like your business, then get in touch on csr@guideposts.org.uk and join the Guideposts community today, because together we can help to promote potential and change lives.
What a partnership could look like
Here are some of the team from Burford Garden Company, one of our corporate partners, visiting the nursery garden where they have kindly provided plants and gardening equipment, horticultural knowledge and advice, and a fair bit of elbow grease!
How your business could help Guideposts Trust
There are a range of ways you could support us:
- Financial support in the form of a one-off sponsorship payment towards one of our programs of work.
- Financial support in the form of an ongoing sponsorship, for example for the Better Connected Service.
- Donate products or services.
- Payroll giving from employees to the charity.
- Encourage your staff to volunteer for us.
- Ask your staff and customers to attend one of our events to discover more about our work.
- Share our social posts with your network.
- Host your own fundraising initiatives and activities.
- Through-cause marketing. E.g. you could name one of your products/services after us and provide us with a percentage of the profit that you make from sales.
Next steps
If you think your company could be the perfect fit for a partnership with Guideposts, then please email fundraising@guideposts.org.uk to talk through ways we can work together to deliver an innovative mutually beneficial partnership.
