Corporate partnerships with Crisis

This Christmas, a life beyond homelessness starts here.

The reality is this Christmas over 250,000 households are sleeping rough, sofa surfing, or stuck in unsuitable temporary accommodation – like nightly paid B&Bs’.

The combination of soaring rents, a lack of social housing and the increase in the cost of living is forcing more people into homelessness. People can be stuck homeless in temporary accommodation for months or even years, far from their jobs, schools, and support networks. Many struggle to plan for the future as they can be moved anytime.  

So, this year, with the essential help of our incredible corporate supporters, we will provide warm and comfortable rooms for people enduring the harshest forms of homelessness. Our day centres and frontline services across Great Britain will also be providing support, offering a lifeline to over 6,000 individuals experiencing homelessness this Christmas.

With your help, we can be there for thousands of people who are facing this Christmas without a home. Help someone begin a life beyond homelessness today by donating to Crisis this Christmas.

Donate here

Becoming a partner of Crisis will support you and your colleagues to play a part in ending homelessness for good. The Partnerships team will help you to fundraise creatively and engage in inspiring volunteering opportunities, to show you the impact of your support.

Corporate supporters of Crisis give more than just money. Their time, energy and expertise supports homeless people at our Skylight centres to find their confidence and re-enter employment; our Research and Best Practice team to develop sector-leading campaigns and policy recommendations; and our Christmas guests to take their first steps out of homelessness.

Please get in touch with us today if you are interested in working with Crisis to end homelessness. If you are looking to make a one-off corporate gift, please donate here. If you would like to attend an event or webinar, please register to attend. If you are a business owner or senior colleague at your organisation and would like to make a large personal donation, please visit our philanthropy page.

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Strategic partnerships

Crisis' strategic partnerships go beyond simply providing staff with exciting ways to volunteer and fundraise. We work to build partnerships which make a lasting difference to our mission to end homelessness.

Our strategic partnerships can offer your company:

The chance to fund a unique project, service or role.
Opportunities to influence housing policy at a national level.
Innovation workshops and the chance to use your expertise to develop Crisis' resources and staff.

We deliver partnerships with the power to transform the lives of the some of the most vulnerable members of society, whilst also meeting your corporate social responsibility objectives and engaging your staff.

Our strategic partnerships deliver big impact, both for corporate supporters and our members.

Inspire your staff

Your account manager will work with you and your colleagues to devise a unique programme of engagement opportunities designed around your needs and wants. We offer a range of fun, memorable team-building opportunities, and occasions for your staff to volunteer their time and skills to help homeless people. Your staff could:

Support members at our Skylight centres by volunteering on our employability programmes. Offer support to guests at Crisis at Christmas centres across Britain.
Challenge yourself to fundraise for annual events such as the Icebreaker and Stay Awake for Crisis
Take part in a challenge event on behalf of Crisis such as the Three Peaks Challenge, the Jurassic Coast Trek or a running event
Set up a monthly donation to Crisis through payroll giving platform GoodPaye
Make use of our free Will writing service with Farewill, online or over the phone with an option to leave a gift for Crisis.

Grow your brand

Publicly associating your brand with Crisis can also be a powerful way of increasing your sales, improving customer loyalty and reaching out to and engaging with new audiences.

The Partnerships team can offer tailored communications to engage your audiences in ending homelessness.

Your account manager can work with you to develop a cause-related marketing campaign, where a portion of sales of a product are donated to Crisis.

Companies who support our Crisis Christmas campaign play an important part of our work to support people out of homelessness.

To thank you, we'll promote your company's brand to the UK's business elite in a double page spread in the Financial Times, running twice each December. We will also provide you with digital assets to share your company's support to end homelessness with stakeholders and staff.

Volunteer your time

The team design engagement calendars for all of our corporate partners who are able to commit to a minimum fundraising target of £20,000.

These calendars include a range of seasonal and ad hoc volunteering opportunities for teams and individuals.

Unfortunately, due to the popularity of our volunteering programme, we are not able to offer opportunities to companies who are looking to source one-off team events.

To find out more about the kinds of volunteering opportunities available at Crisis, and how you can play a role in ending homelessness, please contact the Partnerships team today.

Gift-in-kind partnerships

Your company can support Crisis work to end homelessness by donation gifts in kind such as clothing, books, small homeware objects and vinyl records to our Shops from Crisis. Please have a look here to find one of our shops and more information about the items we can accept.

Each year during Crisis at Christmas we receive thousands of donations from the public and corporate partners which allow us to run our Christmas services and give guests a Christmas to remember. Donations include toiletries, clothing, tea, biscuits, gloves and chargers. Please get in touch with the Corporate Partnerships team to find out which items we would especially love for next Christmas.

Our Housing Teams work tirelessly to find adequate accommodation for our members (people experiencing homelessness). However, once we are able to house somebody they are often in need of essential items such as white goods, crockery and furniture, if your company has access to these items and would be interested in exploring donating these to Crisis please contact the Partnerships team.

Make a donation

£500

could help prevent people from sleeping rough by paying for emergency accommodation while we support them to find permanent housing.

£1000

could provide a year's worth of one-to-one support and coaching from a lead worker, enabling someone to develop their plans, achieve their goals and build a life beyond homelessness.

£1500

could fund translation services in one of our Skylights for one month, so that we can provide support to people who do not speak English.

£2000

could help seven people set up their new home, for example buying soft furnishings, white goods and kitchenware.

£6500

could go towards initial advice and guidance from our Engagement and Assessment team for 20 people experiencing homelessness. Our Engagement and Assessment team are the first point of contact for anyone who comes to Crisis for help to end their homelessness.

£10500

could pay for one-to-one support for people on their journey out of homelessness. Crisis Lead Workers deliver high quality support and coaching to enable members to develop their plans, achieve their goals and build a life beyond homelessness.

Your support changes lives

"I was delighted to use my professional skills to assess grant applications, and support people in getting their business plans viable, and hopefully successful. Crisis are playing such a big part in tackling homelessness, and I am very grateful to PwC for giving me and others time to volunteer, and to live our values of building trust in the society and solving important problems." - Kate, PwC Volunteer

Lloyds Banking Group

Our partnership with Lloyds Banking Group is our biggest to date and is set to raise an incredible £2 Million over a two-year period.

Alongside Simon Community, our delivery partner in Northern Ireland, we will empower Lloyds Banking Group colleagues to better understand the causes and the prevalence of homelessness and inspire them to play their part in ending it.

Lloyds Banking Group will also support us in partnering with Homes for Good, to establish a new lettings agency which will improve access to good quality, affordable housing for those experiencing homelessness.

We are hugely thankful for the tireless efforts and dedication of Lloyds Banking Group thus far. Our shared believe that everyone should have access to a safe and secure home makes us a formidable transformative force.

We look forward to sharing updates and achievements of the partnership very soon! If you'd like to read further details, see our recent blog post.

Some of our corporate partners

Partnerships News

Stay up to date on the latest from the corporate partnerships team at Crisis.

ihateironing brings the joy of clean clothes to people experiencing homelessness

Crisis at Christmas is proud to renew our partnership with ihateironing, the London-based laundry start-up.

Celebrating three years of partnership with Specsavers!

This Christmas marks the third anniversary of our partnership with Specsavers. Over the past two years, we've seen this collaboration grow into a truly strategic and impactful corporate partnership. Let’s take a moment to reflect on some of the highlights from this partnership.

Create your own Pop-up Shop for Crisis

Our corporate partners can host a collection drive and pop-up shop in their offices to raise vital funds in support of Crisis.

Specsavers staff provide free healthcare appointments for Crisis members

Specsavers and Crisis are working together to remove healthcare barriers for people experiencing homelessness. Specsavers do this through myriad of ways, for example by running regular eye and ear care clinics for Crisis members across our 9 Skylights.

This Christmas new and long-term partners have generously given their time volunteering, raised essential funds and donated large amounts of stock to support our Christmas guests. Let's have a look at the different ways corporate partners supported Crisis this Christmas.

Starting to think about what this Black Friday looks like for your organisation this year and want to provide an impactful experience for your community at check out? Your company could run an Anti-Black Friday campaign instead to take a stance against consumerism and supporting Crisis at the same time.

Read more 13/02/24

John Frieda launch their Crisis x Volume Lift range for World Homeless Day

Across October, 50p from every limited edition John Frieda Volume Lift product sold will support Crisis to end homelessness.

Read more 13/02/24

Thank you to our Berkeley and St George's plc volunteers

During August 6 volunteers from Berkeley/ St George’s plc kindly came in for 4 days to help us transform the courtyard at our Brent Skylight, being very considerate to not impact our day-to-day services in the process. They also generously covered the cost and materials (estimated at around £10,000) of the re-design, transforming the courtyard into a welcoming space for members.

Read more 13/02/24

This May our partner PwC held their 13th annual firmwide fundraising and volunteering event ‘One Firm One Day’ which encourages employees across the country to take time out to support their local communities and national charity partners. This year's ‘One Firm One Day’ activities included a Fun Run, a Shops from Crisis pop-up shop and many more.

Read more 13/02/24

Lockdown has challenged Crisis and our corporate partners to engage staff in new ways. The partnerships team have reflected on how Crisis staff have been supported since the pandemic began, and reached out to some of our corporate partners to understand how they have engaged their staff in this past year of remote working and uncertainty.

Blog - Christmas support from our Corporate Partners

We would like to say a huge thank you to our corporate partners for their continued support last year during the coronavirus outbreak and for working with us to ensure that no one was homeless and alone over the Christmas period.

Read more 18/04/23

Blog - The virtue of virtual gifts, and how companies can play their part

Lockdown has prompted many among us to become highly creative in the ways we connect with loved ones and colleagues, and as such virtual gifts have experienced a renaissance of sorts. The Tesco Mobile (SIM) card campaign took Crisis' virtual fundraising to a new level in Christmas 2020 with our first ever collaborative gift, with Tesco Mobile staff and customers raising an incredible total of over £75,000 in support of our work to end homelessness.