Deloitte chooses three charities for three-year partnerships

Howard Lake | 4 June 2013 | News

Professional services firm Deloitte LLP has chosen Alzheimer’s Society, Mind and Prostate Cancer UK as its charity partners for the next three years. It aims to raise a total of £2 million during that period.

Over 5,000 of the firm's employees voted for the three charities based on specific projects that they put forward. 

The partnership wil include fundraising together with donated time and skills from the firm and its employees, including strategy advice, analytics, finance and project management.

Bob Thust, Director for Responsible Business at Deloitte, said:  "We want to offer more than the typical fundraising, which often only offers a temporary solution, and aim to make a real difference for each of these charities. By using the skills and expertise of our staff, we believe we can leave a lasting legacy that will continue to help each charity long after the partnership comes to a close".

Current three-year charity partnerships

Deloitte's current charity partners are Children with Cancer UK, Help for Heroes (H4H) and Cancer Research UK. Employees have raised over £2 million for them, provided 3,000 hours of pro bono support, and over 5,000 volunteers have helped the charities with a number of skills-based opportunities, corporate challenges and fundraising activities.

Paul Farmer, Mind’s CEO, said: "None of our past or present partnerships delivers the scale of impact that working with Deloitte can bring to promoting good mental health, particularly in the workplace.  This is an encouraging sign that mental health is increasingly being recognised as a cause that people really want to support."

About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.