Corporate partners

Meningitis Research Foundation works with companies, large and small, to fight meningitis and septicaemia.  By supporting the Foundation, your company can join us in our vision of a world free from meningitis and septicaemia, whilst experiencing the many benefits of a tailor made corporate package.

Here at the Foundation, our experienced corporate fundraising team is dedicated to establishing and maintaining mutually beneficial relationships by working towards a shared goal while our communications team will help to maximise the PR and media opportunities.

Corporate Fundraising Benefits

Establishing a relationship with MRF provides the perfect opportunity to demonstrate corporate social responsibility (CSR), not only internally to your employees and stakeholders, but also externally to your market competitors, customers and the broader community.  Crucially, CSR is not only good for society; it's good for business too.

A partnership with the Foundation can help:

•  Differentiate your product or service in an increasingly competitive market place
•  Raise awareness of brands among existing and potential customers, leading to increased sales and brand loyalty
•  Improve team working skills and interaction between departments through actively involving employees in fundraising initiatives
•  Demonstrate CSR and generate positive PR for your company

Why work with Meningitis Research Foundation?

MRF is a well-respected national charity with a powerful cause relevant to a wide spectrum of people.  Our cause is easily identified and tangible, with results from our work impacting on local, regional, national, and international communities.

By working with the Foundation, more of your money goes to where it can really make a difference - research, awareness and support.  Vaccine research offers the greatest hope of making a real difference by eliminating meningitis and septicaemia.  That's why nearly half of the Foundation's total spend goes on supporting innovative and effective projects throughout the world.  But until there are vaccines, which give protection against all major forms of meningitis and septicaemia, it is vital that we continue to raise awareness of the symptoms and provide support to those affected.

By supporting our research, awareness and support programmes you can make a difference to people's lives - choose to work with Meningitis Research Foundation.

Tailor made fundraising programmes are designed to cater for the specific needs of individual companies. Together, we can select the methods that best suit your needs.

Charity of the Year

Why not adopt MRF as your Charity of the Year?

Working with the Foundation can give everyone in your organisation a focus for their fundraising efforts, whilst team work, internal communications and project management skills can be built in an enjoyable way.  Our corporate team will work with you to ensure that it becomes a year to remember for everyone.

Cause Related Marketing (CRM)

Research has shown that '77% of customers are positively influenced by a cause related promotion at the point of purchase or decision making'. (Business In The Community).

Further benefits include increased brand affinity and equity, positive consumer perception, loyalty and buying behaviour.

Our corporate team are experienced in developing mutually beneficial marketing partnerships and have had successful CRM campaigns with a number of companies.  CRM can also be a great way of raising awareness of meningitis and septicaemia and their symptoms, particularly through packaging and point of purchase displays.

Match Funding

An easy and efficient way to work with the Foundation is to match fund the fundraising efforts of your staff. It's a great way to practically encourage and support them in their efforts.

Donations and Gifts in Kind

Donations are always very much appreciated, whether monetary or gifts in kind.

Your charities' committee or charitable trust may like to make a one-off donation to the Foundation or become a regular giver. Donations can be gift aided to make them tax efficient.

Regular giving is invaluable in helping us to plan our future funding of research programmes and other long-term initiatives.  For individual employees in the UK, Payroll Giving provides an easy way to become involved in regular giving, with little administrative cost to your company.  Payroll Giving is tax-efficient as well. As the donation is taken from gross pay, a £10 donation each month, for instance, would only cost the donor £7.80 (assuming they pay basic rate tax).

Gifts in kind are very valuable to the charity. Items or services that can help us to save costs, e.g. office equipment, stationery or professional expertise, are very gratefully received. We also hold raffles every year, for which we are always looking for prizes.

Sponsorship

Research and awareness save lives. Sponsor a research project or an award-winning campaign or resource, support our 24 hour helpline, or get involved in our high profile promotion and fundraising events. The choice is yours.

Mobile Phones and Ink Cartridges

Put old mobile phones and printer cartridges to work by exchanging them for cash for the Foundation. Just send phones and cartridges to our Bristol address.

These are just some of the ways that you can support us, and there's plenty more in our fundraising events section. And, of course, if you've got a great idea we'd love to hear from you.

For more information, or to discuss the benefits of working together in more depth, please contact our Corporate Fundraiser on 01454 280412 or dougj@meningitis.org .