My company wants to fundraise
Fundraising as a company
Thank you for choosing to fundraise for Lancashire Mind.
Support from Lancashire based companies is key to our ability to continue offering our services and reaching as many people as possible across the county. Our virtual wellbeing coaching service for 10 to 18-year-olds, which has supported over 100 young people, has been made possible only thanks to generous donations from corporate supporters.
The pandemic and cost of living crisis has led to many people experiencing poor mental health for the first time and more people have experienced needing to support a loved one with their mental health. Your colleagues, customers, suppliers, and the communities you serve, and want to reach, will all have a connection to mental health. By supporting Lancashire Mind, you’re demonstrating your commitment to improving mental health for everyone.
How fundraising helps
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£750
Could provide a workshop for parents/carers whose children are experiencing poor mental health, enabling them to understand and support their child
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£2,800
Could empower a group of people to improve wellbeing for themselves and their community through participation in our Community Wellbeing Challenge
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£10,500
Could provide 30 children with six sessions of wellbeing coaching, helping them to identify and overcome barriers to wellbeing
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Resources
For tips, ideas and information please download our fundraiser's resources or contact our fundraising team
Fundraising
Could you organise a workplace fundraiser and get staff, suppliers, and customers involved? Fundraising is a great way to bring people together for a good cause and leaves everyone feeling a great sense of achievement at the end. Some companies match-fund whatever their staff raise to encourage and support colleagues in their efforts. Ideas for fundraisers include a golf day, charity dinner, bake sale, dress down day, talent competition, or coast-to-coast cycle ride.
Sponsorship
Sponsorship is a great way to support our services and events, whilst raising the profile of your business, engaging with customers and the community, and securing positive media coverage. Sponsors make our fundraising events, such as Mental Elf, the successes they are. We can provide full details of packages to suit all needs and budgets.
Payroll giving,
This is a way of giving money to charity directly from your wages before tax. It must be paid through PAYE from your wages or pension and you can find out more about it here:
Corporate Partnerships
We value every one of our corporate partners, who all make a big difference to our work.
There are many ways in which you can become a Lancashire Mind partner, whether that’s choosing us as your charity of the year or becoming a long term partner we would love to hear from you.
Charity of the Year
Naming us as your Charity of the Year means different things to different companies so we’re happy to work closely with you over the 12 months (or longer!) to get the very best out of the partnership for you and your business. Some companies like to donate a one-off amount, while others set a fundraising target and host their own events throughout the year or join in with some of our organised events. Either way, having Lancashire Mind as your Charity of the Year means mental health is a workplace wellbeing priority.
RSM UK’s Preston office chose us as their Charity of the Year in 2023 and Karen Musgrave, office managing partner, said: “The team chose Lancashire Mind as we knew our donations would make a difference locally and mental health was something we felt strongly about, particularly in what was probably the first ‘post-pandemic’ year.”
“It was incredibly inspiring for our team and Lancashire Mind were great at offering opportunities to raise funds, provide personnel to attend our internal events and helped us come up with ideas.
“I would say to any business thinking of choosing Lancashire Mind as their Charity of the Year that the charity goes on the fundraising journey with you and importantly makes sure you are clear about how your funds will be used and the difference they make.”
Become a patron
Partners can make a public commitment to our life-changing services by becoming a Lancashire Mind patron. If you’re willing and able to invest in our future and form a longer-term relationship with us, please take a look at our dedicated Patron page for more information.
Product sales
Whatever your business, perhaps you could consider selling a product specifically for the benefit of Lancashire Mind.
Whether you’re considering a one-off donation, a Charity of the Year partnership or just want to explore options, get in touch to find out more about our work and how you can support it.
Contact our Corporate Fundraiser, Emma Broom
How we can help you
In developing a partnership with Lancashire Mind, there are lots of benefits for your business such as brand exposure, community engagement, employee participation, and media coverage.
We will work with you to support your fundraising and can also help you to enhance workplace wellbeing by providing mental health training and resources for staff.
We run our own business networking group, called the Lancashire Wellbeing Business Network, where businesses share knowledge and work towards reducing the stigma around mental health. We also have lots of volunteering opportunities that staff can get involved with; many workplaces allocate time each year for their staff to give something back to their community.
Resources
Fundraising & Corporate Partnerships Brochure
Corporate Partnerships
Fundraising Regulator
Lancashire Mind is registered with the Fundraising Regulator, the independent regulator of charitable fundraising. Established following the 2015 cross-party review of fundraising self-regulation, it works to ensure that charities who raise money from the public do so appropriately. As a charity, Lancashire Mind follows the regulator’s Fundraising Code of Practice.
Other ways to get involved
