A Perfect Pack for The Buddy Bag Foundation
Olivia Johnston from The Haulage Group writes about their recent Buddy Bag pack as part of a group of volunteers from Corporate Connections.
Embrace and support your local community
Corporate Social Responsibility or CSR, centres around embracing and giving back to your local community. Companies throughout the UK are reaping the benefits of making a difference and engaging with their local causes, plus raising their profile whilst doing so.
There are a variety of ways your company can get involved:
Reap the benefits of partnership together and help make a bigger impact to help make a difference to children in emergency care in the UK.
Simply complete the monthly direct debit form to contribute a regular donation which will make all the difference to children who vitally need your help.
This is a half day event in which 180 Buddy Bags are packed by six teams of between 20-180 people, creating a highly valuable and rewarding team building event.
Hosted at a venue of your choice, one of our Buddy Bag Ambassadors will attend to talk through the cause as well as providing support during the event.
This event supports your local community as the bags you pack are delivered to refuges in your area. This means you have a direct impact to change lives.
A Buddy Bag pack event boosts staff morale, gives staff positive perceptions towards you, the employer and provides your team with the opportunity to work together in a fun and incredibly worthwhile environment.
The BBF Challenge Box is a unique opportunity for businesses to support a local cause, whilst also providing a fun and engaging team building opportunity.
The challenge is split into two parts. Firstly, team members are tasked with procuring all of the items needed to pack 30 Buddy Bags. Secondly, you’ll get together to pack the bags.
This is a great team-building activity by helping local causes and employees will be proud to be giving something back.
Playing a vital part in the challenge helps communication, compassion and self-fulfilment for the whole team.
A simple scheme that enables individuals to donate to a charity of their choice each month, directly from their pay check, making donations both quick and cost effective. Making a donation couldn’t be simpler.
Choose from one off or monthly donations at the bottom of this page or contact us directly to discuss your own requirements.
Places for People, the UK’s leading social enterprise, has proudly provided Buddy Bag Foundation with £9,000 of funding from their charity – Places Foundation.
The funding will help to issue over 360 backpacks to children across the country. To celebrate the donation and boost awareness of the Buddy Bag Foundation, over 35 Places for People colleagues volunteered their time to join a “Buddy Bag Pack”, and pack 360 bags to give to children this month.
Marcus Hulme, Director of Places Impact at Places for People commented: “We are proud to have been working closely with Buddy Bag Foundation and have seen first-hand the positive impact these backpacks can have on young people entering our emergency care supported accommodation services. The backpacks are vital in helping to restore a feeling of safety and security to a child in these difficult times. Through our independent charity, Places Foundation, we are delighted to be able to support incredible initiatives like the Buddy Bag Foundation with our time and funding.”
Social responsibility should be for every organisation
It is now more important than ever to show that we are doing everything we can to be a responsible business.
CSR-A has established a new standard for social responsibility which states that:
Social Responsibility allows you to enrich the quality of lives for all by investing in social value as an essential part of an organisations culture. This provides purpose and impact and will ensure a sustainable and profitable business. It will help to build a better world for future generations by improving the environment and ensuring a cohesive community to live and work in.
By supporting The Buddy Bag Foundation, you will be nominated to become a CSR Associate and this will contribute towards a CSR Accreditation. Needless to say that CSR-A has nominated The Buddy Bag Foundation to become a CSR Associate.
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Olivia Johnston from The Haulage Group writes about their recent Buddy Bag pack as part of a group of volunteers from Corporate Connections.
Places for People, the UK’s leading social enterprise, has proudly provided Buddy Bag Foundation with £9,000 of funding from their charity – Places Foundation.
The Amazon team in Doncaster has made a £3,000 donation to The Buddy Bag Foundation while learning how to knit teddies with the charity’s staff and volunteers.
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£25 supplies a child entering emergency accommodation with their own Buddy Bag. 100% of money donated goes to the cause.
Head Office, all correspondence and knitted toys to: The Buddy Bag Foundation, c/o Howell Group Ltd, Unit 28, Maybrook Road, Maybrook Business Park, Minworth B76 1AL
If you want to donate to us directly, you can pay online or via any Post Office or Lloyds Bank branch to:
Sort code 30-64-10 – Account number: 34186868 – Account name: Buddy Bag Foundation – Reference: Your name