# 10 Christmas corporate fundraising partnerships

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2021/12/06/10-christmas-corporate-fundraising-partnerships/
- Published: 2021-12-06T11:20:55+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Christmas is fast approaching, so here’s news of 10 corporate partnerships raising
funds for good causes across the UK over the festive season. **

> Today our Help Brighten a Million Christmases campaign launches, where we'll be
> matching customer donations up to the value of £1.5 million to feed those in need
> this festive season. Let’s work together to make it a [#XmasToSavour](https://twitter.com/hashtag/XmasToSavour?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
> for everyone🎄Read more: [https://t.co/cieMbEat0r](https://t.co/cieMbEat0r)
> 
> ## Advertisement
> 
> — Sainsbury's News (@SainsburysNews) [December 1, 2021](https://twitter.com/SainsburysNews/status/1465988878242828297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

#### Sainsbury’s & FareShare

Sainsbury’s annual ‘Help Brighten a Million Christmases’ initiative is back again
this year, with every donation being matched by the supermarket up to the value 
of £1.5 million. Between 1-24 December, customers can donate physical products in
store, or donate money at the checkout. Every £1 customer donation provides the 
equivalent of two hot meals, so once matched by Sainsbury’s, each £1 donated could
help feed four people in need.  To ensure those who need it most receive food, this
year Sainsbury’s is working with [FareShare](https://fareshare.org.uk/) and other
charity partners across the UK to distribute donations**.**

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![A grumpy cat on a christmas card](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.cloud/2021/12/
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#### Paperchase & Sightsavers

Since Christmas 2018, [Sightsavers’](https://www.sightsavers.org/) Christmas card
partnership with Paperchase has raised over £33,000 to support its work in low- 
and middle-income countries to protect sight, treat and eliminate neglected tropical
diseases and campaign for equal rights for people with disabilities. This year’s
card features a comical grumpy looking cat in Father Christmas clothing, and 50p
from every pack sold will be donated to our cause, helping us move towards our vision
of a world where no one is blind from avoidable causes, and where people with disabilities
can participate equally in society.

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> We are thrilled to be partnering with Teenage Cancer Trust for a Christmas Appeal,
> with support from Sarah, Duchess of York and TRH Princess Beatrice, and Princess
> Eugenie. You can donate now at [https://t.co/G7P1x8pv9Z](https://t.co/G7P1x8pv9Z)
> 👑 [pic.twitter.com/5vwKHoYVYX](https://t.co/5vwKHoYVYX)
> — HELLO! (@hellomag) [November 27, 2021](https://twitter.com/hellomag/status/1464715662249512964?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

#### HELLO! magazine & Teenage Cancer Trust

HELLO! magazine and  [Teenage Cancer Trust ](https://www.teenagecancertrust.org/)
have launched a Christmas fundraising appeal. In the 22 November edition of HELLO!
magazine four young people the charity supports share their  stories with Teenage
Cancer Trust’s Honorary Patrons, Their Royal Highnesses Princess Beatrice and Princess
Eugenie, and their mother Sarah, Duchess of York. Abigail, 13, Aimee, 16, Mariam,
19, and Egon, 27, met with and explained to the trio how Teenage Cancer Trust funded
nurses, youth teams and special hospital units have supported them every step of
the way through treatment. HELLO! readers are being asked to donate to Teenage Cancer
Trust this Christmas with the appeal iset to run until 4 January 2022. 

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#### Hamleys & GOSH Charity

Hamleys has announced a Christmas partnership with Great Ormond Street Hospital 
Children’s Charity ([GOSH Charity](https://www.gosh.org/)), including the launch
of a limited edition run of 1500 Hamleys x GOSH Bears, with £16 from the sale of
every bear donated to the charity. Hamleys will also be delivering exclusive in-
store experiences and raising funds for the charity with the installation of a Tap
to Donate machine. To launch the charity partnership, Hamleys hosted a private in-
store event for children treated by GOSH and their families, and other beneficiaries.
Hamleys has also revealed a special installation on the Ground Floor of their Regent
Street store, showcasing a giant Christmas tree dressed to the theme of the new 
GOSH Charity Christmas animation, ‘One Step Closer to Home’.

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![](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.cloud/2021/12/thorftful.jpg)

#### Thortful & 4 charities

This Christmas greetings card marketplace thortful is partnering with four charities
for it’s first ever charity Christmas card collection. thortful are working with
four amazing charities very close to their hearts; [Voyage Youth](https://voyageyouth.com/),
Evesham Greyhound and Lurcher Rescue, Dementia Adventure, & Heart Research UK. For
every pack of A6 cards sold thortful will donate 5p to these four charities.

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![](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.cloud/2021/12/Partner-VTT-Virgin-Points-Board_16_9.
jpg)

#### Virgin Red & charity partners

This December, Virgin Red, Virgin’s rewards programme, will match all points earned
on train tickets and gift them to its 13 partner charities as a cash donation.  
As examples, for [Guide Dogs](https://www.guidedogs.org.uk/), 1,000 points could
provide a training toy for a future life-changing guide dog or 5,000 points could
fund one puppy class. For Cancer Research UK, 1,000 points could buy plastic test
tubes, or 5,000 points could buy protective equipment for scientists.

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![](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.cloud/2021/12/IMG_4740-edited-Pixlr.jpg)

#### Conifox Adventure Park & Edinburgh Children’s Hospital Charity

Conifox Adventure Park has donated a 20ft Christmas tree to [Edinburgh Children’s Hospital Charity](https://echcharity.org/)(
ECHC) for the new hospital’s first festive season, at the city’s Royal Hospital 
for Children and Young People. The Nordmann fir is now providing a dazzling Yuletide
welcome for visitors and patients, having been illuminated by Joey Sharp, 11 months,
who was diagnosed with a brain tumour at 12 days old, at a special Christmas lights
switch-on ceremony on Sunday, 28 November.

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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF3lpk0Li3E&t=1s

#### Deliveroo, The Felix Project & FareShare

Deliveroo has teamed up with Britain’s Got Talent finalist and funnyman Kojo Anim,
to launch a range of charity Christmas crackers called ‘Crackers Cracking Hunger’,
to help provide meals for families in need. Inside the crackers, people will find
a Christmas hat and a joke written by the comedian. Each box of six crackers costs
£10, all of which will be donated to [The Felix Project](https://thefelixproject.org/)
and FareShare, providing the equivalent of a week of meals for a UK household in
need. Deliveroo’s charity Christmas crackers are available to purchase across the
UK from Deliveroo Editions via the app or website from 29 November until sold out.

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![](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.cloud/2021/12/Image-of-Rodney-by-Exposure-Photo-
Agency.jpg)

Big Issue Vendor, Rodney Lyall, © Exposure Photo Agency

#### O2 & The Big Issue

O2 and [The Big Issue](https://www.bigissue.com/) have announced a partnership that
will set up over 200 of the magazine’s vendors each month with free data plans. 
This will include 7GB of data, a free sim, unlimited calls and texts, enabling vendors
to make cashless sales, access essential online services and stay connected. The
partnership comes as part of the National Databank initiative launched by O2 and
Good Things Foundation. For every plan the network sells this Christmas, O2 will
in turn donate 10GB of data to the Databank, which Databank is designed to support
O2’s data pledge to get more than 255,000 people living in poverty connected by 
the end of 2023.

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![](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.cloud/2021/12/Porchlight1.jpg)

#### MacKnade & Porchlight

Food and drink expert, the Kent-based MacKnade has teamed up with [Porchlight](https://www.porchlight.org.uk/)
this Christmas. The partnership, running until 1 January, sees Macknade make a £
5 donation to Porchlight, for every order purchased through its online Christmas
shop during this time.  The funds, which will be transferred to the charity at regular
intervals throughout the campaign, could help towards the cost of a Christmas lunch
for someone living in a Porchlight property, or fund an essential check in, to keep
someone in the Kent community off the streets.

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