Corporate Fundraising

Encourage your employees to join in The Big Knit. The Big Knit is a nationwide campaign that Age UK runs in partnership with innocent drinks where we ask you to knit little woolly hats which then go on to their smoothie drinks. For every smoothie sold, Age UK receives 25p. There are over 130 local Age UK's brand partners, of which Age UK Cambridgeshire and Peterborough is one, and all the partners may take part if they wish. In the past we have managed to contribute thousands of little hats to this campaign. The participation has delighted many and also raised much needed funds for us. In the 2020/22 Big Knit campaign Age UK Cambridgeshire and Peterborough collected 15,085 little hats, which raised an incredible £3,771.25 for us to help support local older people.

More details are here

Your employees could organsise and run their own fundraiser to help raise vital funds for our work. Your team can be as innovative as they wish! By running your own fundraiser you will learn and use a variety of team skills to included; strategy development, leadership, team work, good communication, organisation, project management, and marketing - all whilst doing something worthwhile and giving back to the local community.

Some fundraising ideas are:

• Cake sale, car boot sale

• Dress down day, fancy dress up day

• A sponsored walk, run, 3 legged pub crawl

• Raffle, (silent) Auction

• Quiz night, beetle drive, race night

There's so many things they could do - See our A to Z Fundraising Ideas or contact us for more ideas! Set up a fundraising page for us with Give as you Live DONATE or Just Giving to collect sponsorship donations easily online.

You can display our leaflets and encourage your staff, contacts and customers to generate free funds for us by making a small change to the way they do their on-line shopping. (download) You can enable free donations are made to us by a number of retailers, by shopping via Give As You Live App. All you have to do is downlaod the App, sign up, and do all your shopping through the access page (you are directed to the retailer's website and your visit is tracked to enable the donation to be made to us by the retailer when you check out with your purchase.)

Can you make your online business purchases via the app? Hotel, venues, train bookings, and much more could all generate free funds for us at no cost to you. All you have to do is downlaod the App and do all your shopping through the access page (you are directed to the retailer's website and your visit is tracked to enable the donation to be made to us by the retailer when you check out with your purchase.)

Demonstrate your support and motivate your staff even further by showing your business commitment. Pledge to match (or double!) the sum of money your staff either raise or donate.

If your company has a particular area of expertise, could you run a one-day workshop and collect donations as a sign-up fee? This could be, from craft workshops to design workshops, or even a training session.

We would be able to support you with cobranded flyers and promotion of the workshop or event. If this is an idea you’d be keen to explore further, please get in touch with us by emailing fundraising@ageukcap.org.uk

Could you display a collection tin in your office or shop? This would help us to collect much needed donations to continue our vital work in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.

Email us: fundraising@ageukcap.org.uk

Display our QR code poster on how to make a digital donation by text or online. Download our poster here

Recycle4Charity is a free and easy to use ink recycling programme, simply follow the link and register to send your empty cartridges for recycling. Help us to raise funds and save the planet!  You can also request a collection box for you to display in your office. Click here

You can advertise our services: 

• Displaying our leaflets in your reception area 

• Sharing our posts on your social media

• Share our advert video on your office TV's (download) 

Please consider choosing Age UK Cambridgeshire and Peterborough as your business Charity of the Year. In return we would offer joint branding on our fundraising materials and our events, as well as positive PR and local media coverage throughout the year(s) of our partnership.

Your staff could get involved in our events throughout the year, such as in one of our centres, or supported clubs, across the county. By sponsoring an event you help us with the costs, for example, food and decorations, hosting Christmas parties. In return you get some great PR and local media coverage.

Could you send a team to help out at an event or activity? It's a great way for staff to bond by working together to help vulnerable older people. Previous staff teams have served Christmas lunches, taken older people on days out, painted our day centre, and revamped our garden.

You may have staff who would like to support an isolated older person on a one-to-one basis. Our Telephone Befrienders are matched with an older person and call them once a week for a chat for about 20 minutes. These calls take place at a time convenient to the volunteer and older person, so can take place during work hours or in the evenings and weekends.

Could you allow your staff 20 minutes out of the working day to make someone’s day? Alternatively, could you promote this to your staff via your internal email and communications? Telephone Befrienders are DBS checked and fully trained and supported throughout their volunteering.  

Could you donate a prize for one of our many fundraising raffles and competitions - perhaps a bottle of wine, box of chocolates or biscuits, bath goodies, gift vouchers, or free services?

If you would like to donate wool, we would be very grateful. We usually need wool for our knitters who knit the little hats that go on the top of Innocent Smoothie bottles and raise 25p for each hat. More details are here

Share our annual Wish List of gifts to purchase and donate, so that our staff can pass on a Christmas gift to our service users who will not receive anything, or very little, at this poignant time of the year when many older people find themselves feeling lonely. Some representative employees could come and visit one of our centres with some of the gifts. 

You can collect donations from staff and arrange with us to drop off the gifts at our office. We also publish a Amazon Wishlist every year where your employees can purchase and gift and it gets sent straight to us. For access to the Wishlist contact us media@ageukcap.org.uk 

Could any of your team make a monthly donation to us out of their salary? Or maybe set up a monthly Donr Text Giving to us. If everyone donated the cost of one coffee a month (e.g. £3.00) it would soon add up. Regular giving helps us to provide our vital information and advice services to older people. See the different ways you can donate on our Donate Page.