# From tree planting to Christmas present donations: corporate partnership round up

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/12/20/from-tree-planting-to-christmas-present-donations-corporate-partnership-round-up/
- Published: 2019-12-20T07:42:37+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**From tree planting to events sponsorship and donations of Christmas presents: 
businesses are supporting charities and good causes across the UK in a variety of
ways.**

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#### Cisco & Trussell Trust

[Cisco](https://www.cisco.com) has partnered with the [Trussell Trust](https://www.trusselltrust.org)
with the partnership focusing on the areas of technical guidance, data, and volunteering.
This includes Cisco helping the charity better understand and utilise its data by
identifying and building key areas where it would have the most valuable impact 
in the fight against hunger and poverty; from having a clearer understanding of 
stock levels, to connecting food banks to each other and to food retailers, and 
understanding who visits a food bank and the ways in which they can be supported.

 

 [⌊PRINCIPALITY BUILDING SOCIETY, CARDIFF, 16/12/2019⌉](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.cloud/2019/12/principality-e1576825860347.jpg)

#### Principality Building Society, Teenage Cancer Trust & Alzheimer’s Society Cymru

[Principality Building Society](https://www.principality.co.uk) has donated over
400 Christmas presents to its charity partners [Teenage Cancer Trust](https://www.teenagecancertrust.org)
and [Alzheimer’s Society Cymru](https://www.alzheimers.org.uk). The presents will
be delivered to the Teenage Cancer Trust’s unit at the University Hospital of Wales
and support groups at Alzheimer’s Society’s centre in Cardiff. Ran as part of the
Society’s holiday gift appeal, the gifts donated include pampering sets, crosswords,
confectionary items and books. The Society’s three year partnership with the Teenage
Cancer Trust and Alzheimer’s Society Cymru started in January 2019. Since then, 
Principality has fundraised over £140,000 for its charity partners.

Image: HUW JOHN, Cardiff 16/12/2019 Principality Building Society with Christmas
Gifts www.huwjohn.com

 

#### 󠀁[⌊Perkbox BEAM⌉⌊Perkbox BEAM⌉󠀁[Perkbox & Beam

[Perkbox](https://www.perkbox.com), the employee experience platform, has partnered
with [Beam](https://beam.org), the crowdfunding network for homeless people, to 
make it its first charity on the Perkbox platform and inspire employees to engage
in giving. Employees signed up to Perkbox will now be able to use their credit earned
in their ‘wallet’ from PerksGO transactions at local merchants partnered with Perkbox,
to support homeless people. Equally, they will be able to use their ‘rewards’ given
by managers via the Recognition feature, for their outstanding behaviour, to donate
to Beam.  Beam was added to the platform as a request from multiple Perkbox employees
internally and users of the Perkbox platform, who wanted to be able to donate their
Perkbox credit to a good cause.

 

#### 󠀁[⌊CoinCorner Tree planting⌉⌊CoinCorner Tree planting⌉󠀁[

#### CoinCorner, Isle of Man Woodland Trust & Eden Reforestation Projects

[CoinCorner](https://www.coincorner.com), the Bitcoin exchange in the UK, has launched
a new ecological initiative, Plant It Forward, to plant trees on a local and global
scale. Plant It Forward has been introduced by the company as a way to contribute
and support the environment. It runs alongside the company’s existing recycling 
efforts via a local scheme to recycle product waste such as milk cartons, paper 
and plastics. Founded in 2014, CoinCorner is based in the Isle of Man. Plant It 
Forward aligns with the Isle of Man Government’s five-year strategy to address environmental
concerns, including planting 85,000 trees (matching the Island’s population) to 
offset carbon emissions. CoinCorner has partnered with two non-profit organisations
for the initiative, the [Isle of Man Woodland Trust](https://woodlandtrust.im) and
Eden Reforestation Projects.

 

#### 󠀁[⌊Grenfell Tower Fire⌉⌊Grenfell Tower Fire⌉󠀁[

#### British Airways & British Red Cross

[British Airways](https://www.britishairways.com/travel/home/public/en_gb/) has 
announced a partnership with the [British Red Cross](https://www.redcross.org.uk)
to support communities in crisis. British Airways will be supporting emergency response
work across the UK. Donations from British Airways will help ensure the British 
Red Cross can continue to recruit, train and support its staff and volunteers to
offer its vital day-to-day emergency services in communities across the UK. As part
of the new partnership, British Airways will encourage its employees to undertake
their own acts of kindness, including signing up to become a British Red Cross volunteer,
supporting the charity to provide practical help to their local communities when
emergency strikes.

 

 [⌊Mind PopGrip 2 (1)⌉](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.cloud/2019/12/Mind-PopGrip-2-1-e1576826293423.jpg)

#### PopSockets & Centrepoint

[PopSockets](https://popsockets.co.uk), maker of expandable phone grips has expanded
its philanthropy programme Poptivism into the UK. With every purchase of a Poptivism
grip, PopSockets donates 50% of the sale price to its specified charity, and each
month the brand will raise awareness and funds for a new charity partner tackling
an issue of importance for customers and employees. November saw two new Poptivism
PopGrip designs available to help lift lives out of poverty. In the UK, donations
supported [Centrepoint](https://centrepoint.org.uk). To date, the Poptivism programme
has donated more than USD $650,000 to 250 charitable organisations around the world.
Charities are chosen internally within the business as input is given from staff
around their offices globally. They all put forward charities that are closest to
them. then each month choose a cause such as mental health and internally vote on
a charity relating to this.

 

 [⌊tunnocks⌉](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.cloud/2019/12/tunnocks-e1576826389421.jpg)

#### Tunnocks & Maggies Lanarkshire

[Maggie’s Lanarkshire](https://www.maggiescentres.org/our-centres/maggies-lanarkshire/)
is currently running the Caramel Wafer Matched Giving Challenge, which sees [Tunnocks](http://www.tunnock.co.uk)
match all new donations to the cancer care centre, over the three months from 1 
October, up to the value of £50,000.

 

 [⌊novatech⌉](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.cloud/2019/12/novatech-e1576826440229.jpg)

#### Novatech & Friends Fighting Cancer

UK Technology provider [Novatech](https://www.novatech.co.uk) has recently won the“
Outstanding Contribution Award” from local charity [Friends Fighting Cancer](https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/12/20/from-tree-planting-to-christmas-present-donations-corporate-partnership-round-up/friendsfightingcancerharnett.org).
Portsmouth technology firm Novatech has been working closely with FFC over the last
year and will continue supporting the charity into 2020 by sponsoring some of its
upcoming sporting events. Throughout 2019 Novatech has supported the charity as 
official sponsorship partner for a number of its events, including being the headline
sponsor of its Charity Boxing event Fighting for Cancer back in October. In the 
upcoming weeks, Novatech will be donating a number of their new Reign Gaming PCs
to the Children’s ward at QA Hospital in Cosham in collaboration with Friends Fighting
Cancer.

 * **[From gaming to football: 8 ways organisations are supporting charities](https://fundraising.co.uk/2020/01/08/from-gaming-football-8-ways-organisations-supporting-charities/)**(
   8 January 2020)
 * **[Corporate to Community initiative puts business managers on charity boards](https://fundraising.co.uk/2020/01/16/corporate-community-initiative-puts-business-managers-charity-boards/)**(
   16 January 2020)
 * **[12 corporate partnerships benefitting UK charities](https://fundraising.co.uk/2020/01/28/12-corporate-partnerships-benefitting-uk-charities/)**(
   28 January 2020)

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