Corporate partnerships
From choosing your Charity of the Year to volunteering and Payroll Giving, find out how your business can help train more assistance dogs.
Time to invest in some different training?
Training. You know it makes your team stronger. It grows knowledge and hones skills. It can also turn puppies into expert assistance dogs! When your business or workplace teams up with Canine Partners, you’ll be helping us to breed, train, and support dogs that will form loving, life-changing partnerships with disabled people.
Our Corporate Team is on hand with a variety of fun ways to get involved – perfect for staff engagement. Your reward will be seeing incredible partnerships grow between the people and dogs you support. Confidence, independence, love, companionship – all thanks to you and your team.
Nominate us as your Charity of the Year
We’d love you to consider nominating Canine Partners as your company’s Charity of the Year or long-term charity partner.
Benefits for your business
- A dedicated Canine Partners Relationship Manager, who’ll work with you to create a plan tailored to your needs.
- Volunteering opportunities to encourage teamwork and improve morale.
- Increased brand visibility through our digital channels.
- Real-life stories from the partnerships you support.
- Opportunities to see our Ambassador Dog Team in action.
Corporate sponsorship
Canine Partners offers a range of sponsorship opportunities to raise brand awareness and bring you closer to our cause. You could:
- sponsor one of our events
- sponsor our Ambassador Dog Team
- sponsor one of our expert Assistance Dog Trainers
If you have any other sponsorship ideas, we’d love to hear from you.
Cause marketing for businesses
A commercial partnership is an engaging, meaningful way to increase customer loyalty and reach new audiences. We can support you with co-branding and donation opportunities to bring our partnership to life, including:
- point of sale donations
- round-ups at the checkout
- portion of purchase
- buy one, give one
Give as You Earn (GAYE) and Payroll Giving
For employees
Ask your employer or personal pension provider if they run a Payroll Giving scheme. You can check if your employer is registered via the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), and nominate them if they’re not already signed up. Your chosen donation will be taken before your pay is taxed. The tax relief you get depends on the rate you pay. For example, if you’re a basic rate (20%) taxpayer and you donate £8, Canine Partners will receive £10.
For employers
Joining a Payroll Giving scheme costs nothing, but it’s a powerful way to engage with staff and boost your company’s ethical credentials. Several organisations run schemes. One of the largest is CAF. If enough staff members join, your company will earn a Payroll Giving Quality Mark to celebrate and promote your support for charitable giving.
Corporate volunteering and gifts in kind
Volunteering with Canine Partners is a great way to engage your staff, focus on teambuilding or use your company’s annual volunteering days to make a difference.
Volunteer at our National Training Centre
We welcome groups of up to 15 people to help maintain our National Training Centre near Loughborough in Leicestershire. Whether you’re grabbing a paintbrush or gardening gloves, your handiwork will redirect cost savings into creating more life-changing partnerships.
Volunteer at events
At Canine Partners events and awareness days, you’ll meet other supporters and share our charity’s work with new audiences.
Raise awareness and support
Dedicate your staff volunteering day or team away day to a fun challenge that makes a real difference. Your teams can stretch their skills in a new context, while helping towards your company’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) goals. We’ll support you with all the resources you need to share Canine Partners’ story with confidence.
Inspire local business support
Head to your high street and inspire local shops, cafes or offices to display a Canine Partners collection tin or flyer. Make it a challenge and see which team can place the most!
Help us source raffle prizes
Work as a team and use your communications skills to secure raffle prizes from local or national businesses. With exciting prizes, we can sell more raffle tickets and direct 100% of sales to supporting assistance dogs. Add some competition, with a reward for the most new leads at the end of the day.
Donate your professional skills
Could you lend your skills and expertise pro bono? Your staff could help improve our systems or support our teams, growing our impact for disabled people. Let us know your skills, and we’ll be in touch if we have a project to match.
Donate dog care and training items
We welcome donated items that help us care for assistance dogs in training. In the past we’ve gratefully received:
- dog bowls
- dog beds
- canine first aid kits
- training toys
Please get in touch if you’re thinking of making a gift in kind – we’ll let you know what’s on our wishlist.
Our corporate partners
We’re grateful to all our corporate partners, who give their support, time and expertise to make more life-changing partnerships possible
Collins Property Recruitment
Kew Electrical
