St Nicholas Hospice Care is your local charity in West Suffolk and Thetford. Getting involved with your local Hospice can be a rewarding experience for your company.
By supporting US you are helping YOUR employees and YOUR community. It's a great way of bringing your employees together in a common cause, and telling your community that your company cares. Whether you sponsor an event or organise one of your own, the support that you give us is vital to our patients and their families.
There are many examples of companies in our area supporting St Nicholas Hospice Care, including:
- Towergate in Bury St Edmunds nominated St Nicholas Hospice Care as their ‘Charity of the Year’. Throughout the year they held corporate golf and karting days and sponsored events arranged by us.
- Chassis Cab donated a van for us to use as part of our retail distribution service.
- A team of staff from Genzyme in Haverhill did some decorating for us in their free time, and the company then sent us a donation as match-funding for the amount of time they had spent doing it. Incidentally, they enjoyed the experience so much that a party from Genzyme regularly come in to help out at St Nicholas Hospice Care.
- Cocksedge Building Contractors in Mildenhall regularly make a donation to us in lieu of sending out Christmas cards.
- Lilyo, on St John's Street, Bury St Edmunds designed a bespoke jewellery range for us, with 30% of the takings coming to St Nicholas Hospice Care.
Opportunities that you might like to consider include:
- Choose St Nicholas Hospice Care as your Charity of the Year
- Event sponsorship
- Staff fundraising/matched giving
- Donate gifts, services or time in kind
- Charity Days
- Ink cartridge and mobile phone recycling
It doesn't need to be serious-minded stuff either - lot's of companies organise fun times and events for their employees and their families, and make some money for the Hospice as well.
Fun days, wine tasting, race nights - whatever you want to do we want to hear about it. So many companies have been touched by the work of St Nicholas Hospice Care, and this is a great way of giving something back.
There are lots of ways that your company can help St Nicholas Hospice Care, and whatever you choose you can be sure that your contribution will be helping make a real difference to the lives of people in your local community.
If your company would like to help us in any way please contact our Corporate Fundraiser on 01284 747615 or email fundraising@stnh.org.uk.
