Corporate partnerships
Whatever the size of your organisation, your company can help in the fight against meningitis and septicaemia.
You can be confident that your support will go where it can really make a difference. We’re the leading charity in the field of meningitis research. We also offer unique services to support those affected by the disease and unparalleled information services free to health professionals and members of the public.
For more information
contact our corporate partnerships team
How can you support us?
Why partner with us?
- Tailor-made partnerships to suit your requirements
- Exciting and inspiring events for employee involvement
- Engage and motivate customers and suppliers
- Raise your company profile
- Great opportunities for media coverage
- Expert support from our communications team
- Real returns on your investment
Our partners
We’d like to thank all the partners who have supported our work to date. Our current supporters include:
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.
Staff and matched 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.
Sponsorship opportunities
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.
Joint promotion initiatives (cause related marketing)
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.
Recycling schemes
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.
Donation in cash or 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.