Involve your business contacts
Ways to get involved | Recent success
Ways to get involved
Include a message in your Christmas cards: Including a message in your Christmas cards to show that you are supporting Meningitis UK conveys a very positive message to your business contacts. We have specialist suppliers who supply corporate christmas cards and can work with you to ensure that the cards are tailored to your exact requirements and that you are happy with the design and message. Your company's logo and Meningitis UK's logo can be included.
Make a donation instead of Christmas cards: To show how environmentally and socially aware your company is, why not make a donation to Meningitis UK instead of buying Christmas cards and send an e-card to all your business contacts to tell them what you have done and pass on your company's best wishes for the festive season.
Meningitis UK is an official charity partner of 'Tripletruth - e-cards to help good causes'. The e-cards can be personalised with your own logo and message and can be sent out to as many contacts as you want. There are also lots of designs to choose from. Each card costs £1 to send out, of which 50% will go to Meningitis UK. To order your corporate e-card now, please visit www.tripletruth.co.uk
Get your clients involved in taking part in employee fundraising events: Inviting clients to take part in employee or company fundraising events is a great way to strenghten relationships . This increases the chance of future business whilst helping a good cause at the same time.
Recent success
Deloitte's Hellwalker - Staff & Client Fundraising
42 brave executives from the elite of Bristol's corporate finance community signed up to take part in Deloitte and Touche's mysterious Hellwalker weekend, after receiving an intriguing invitation that simply asked ‘dare you accept our latest challenge?'. Although participants had no clue what the weekend would entail, Deloitte's Bristol and Cardiff team are renowned for their extreme annual fundraising weekend, so they knew that this top-secret event for Meningitis UK wouldn't be easy!
Once the flights had been booked there was no turning back and participants found out the Hellwalker challenge certainly did live up to its name. After meeting at Bristol Airport at dawn, the teams learnt that they would be transported to the surprise destination of the wild Wicklow Mountains, just south of Dublin. On arrival, the hearty Irish breakfast they received was a smokescreen for what lay ahead, as shortly afterwards they would be deserted in the middle of nowhere and informed that a bus would be waiting for them in 30 hour's time at a location 40 miles away! They would have to hike and cycle their way to the base-camp, and master skills such as kayaking and abseiling to get them over the rugged Irish landscape. All-in-all, the course demanded them to climb over 16,000ft - equivalent to the height of the tallest peak in the Rockies - and navigate through rough terrain, all with no sleep!
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With this knowledge in mind, the adrenaline was understandably pumping as the aeroplane touched down in Dublin on the day of the challenge, and not even the thundering rain could dampen their spirits. Soaked to the skin, teams ploughed on through the terrible conditions with exceptionally good camaraderie, taking on mountains as though they were molehills and always stopping for a smile whenever a camera appeared. Wicklow was truly wild, and the lack of walking trails led to quite a few off-road detours adding more miles to the journey, but everyone made it back to base camp, albeit in varying states of disarray.
All those aches and bruises were worth it, as these courageous men and women from Deloitte, Barclays, Burges Salmon, Growth Capital, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, Mezzanine Management, Osborne Clarke, Royal Bank of Scotland and TLT raised a massive £40,000, and we are incredibly grateful to them for going to such extreme lengths to support our Search 4 a Vaccine.
Bristol Property Agents Association (BPAA) - Trade Association
The Bristol Property adopted Meningitis UK as its charity of the year and members dug deep in their pockets to help raise £5,353 for the charity. The money was raised through an Annual Dinner with 620 guests which raised £4,590 and a golf day which raised £763. Bristol Property Agents Association was established in 1946 and members include surveyors, solicitors, architects, engineers, developers and contractors.
BPAA President Andrew Hardwick and members Nick Seary and Catherine Collis proudly present Kate Rowland, Meningitis UK's Head of Development with their cheque
If this has provided you with inspiration and you would like to talk about ways in which your company could support Meningitis UK, please call Kate, our Head of Development on 0117 303 33 40 or email katerowland@meningitisuk.org
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