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Reap the benefits of a partnership with WRVS
WRVS can offer you many opportunities to work with a charity that has very direct benefits in the community. With more than 40,000 volunteers, of all ages, WRVS is one of the UK’s largest volunteer organisations helping 100,000 older people each month.
We have 450 hospital cafés and shops and more than 800 social centres and clubs, giving us huge reach to promote your company, brand, product or service through various partnership programmes.
By working with us, we can:
- increase your visibility via co-branding opportunities
- offer regional print and TV news PR with celebrities and local dignitaries
- help older people in their communities enjoy life, enhance community cohesion and create sustainable services for the future
- employee development through diverse volunteering, secondment and mentoring opportunities throughout the UK
- acknowledge your business in WRVS communications like our quarterly action newspaper, delivered to around 60,000 people including our volunteers and Inside WRVS, our bi-annual supporter newsletter delivered to 42,000 people
- provide links and a feature about your company on our website
- help you meet your corporate social responsibility objectives in the communities where you impact and where you have staff, suppliers, customers and other stakeholders.
If raising your profile in the community is a corporate objective, talk to us to find out how supporting WRVS could be of mutual benefit and make good business sense. Call our corporate fundraising team on 0845 607 6524.
Read about our work with Barclays, Cosyfeet, EDF Energy, Gas Safe Register, HBOS plc, Healthcall, ITV, Lloydspharmacy, LV=, Next, TNS Research International
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