Corporate fundraising

Every year, organisations choose Charlie Waller as their Charity Partner. A partnership can take a number of forms, and can either be for a fixed period or open-ended.

Our starting point is to understand your motivation for supporting Charlie Waller and your specific organisational needs around mental health and wellbeing.

This creates the basis for a highly productive two-way relationship, where you support us through fundraising, and through raising awareness of our work amongst your stakeholders.

In turn, we work with you to enhance the way in which you support your people’s mental health and wellbeing, adopting our Workplace Programme’s 'whole organisation' approach to embed a positive mental health culture within the ethos of your organisation.

That way, a partnership with Charlie Waller can make a tangible and sustainable difference to your organisation and to your people, whilst generating much needed funds and awareness for us, allowing us to extend our work in support of young people across the country.

If you’re interested in becoming a Corporate Partner, please get in touch and we can discuss a tailored partnership offer that best suits the needs of your organisation.

We are often looking for corporate sponsors for fundraising and other events we put on every year.  Sponsoring a Charlie Waller event is a very effective way of raising awareness of your brand, helps you reach and engage with new audiences, and sends a strong signal to your employees and other stakeholders about your engagement with the issue of mental health and wellbeing.

Charlie Waller events in recent years that have attracted successful corporate sponsorship include formal dinners, classical concerts and our annual Christmas carol services in London and Berkshire.

View Charlie Waller fundraising events

Many companies like to put on one-off fundraising events and activities for us, often to coincide with other, wider mental health initiatives such as Mental Health Awareness Week. As well as raising funds for Charlie Waller, this is a great and positive way of opening up the conversation around mental health and wellbeing with your colleagues.

Our fundraising team would be delighted to talk to you about what can be done and how we can work with you to make your event a success, for you as well as for Charlie Waller. 

Alternatively, why not encourage employees to take on individual challenges? Many employers offer Matched Giving schemes where they make a contribution towards fundraising that employees undertake – either matching that fundraising pound-for-pound or agreeing a fixed amount to donate up front. Corporate donations made through Matched Giving are eligible for tax relief.

Our hugely popular Book Club initiative enables school staff to discover new resources and build on their knowledge and skills about the mental health and emotional wellbeing of the children they work with. Member schools of the Charlie Waller Book Club receive one of our expertly selected titles every term. We currently send out around 800 books a term, and membership is growing all the time.

Sponsorship of the Book Club, either for a term or an academic year, will allow us to extend its impact to more schools, teachers and children.

Learn more about the Charlie Waller Book Club

You can support Charlie Waller by offering gifts in kind. These could be in the form of room space for meetings we hold outside our office (generally in central London) or venues for a one-off fundraising event. Or there may be other possibilities, specific to your business, that could help us maximise the impact of our charitable activities.

Creating a payroll giving scheme enables your employees to donate to Charlie Waller without paying tax on the donation. It's simple to set up and run and is an excellent way for you to support their charitable giving.

Contact an HMRC-approved Payroll Giving agency to set up a scheme.

Follow, tag and like our social media accounts from your business account to help us raise awareness of our work. No matter how many followers your company has on social media, introducing Charlie Waller to them helps us reach new people who might need our help.