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Corporate Sponsorship

Is your organisation looking to raise money for a good cause while engaging your people? There are many ways to boost your company’s fundraising efforts and make a real difference.

Match funding schemes

Many UK companies now offer schemes where they match their employees’ fundraising “pound for pound” up to an agreed limit — effectively doubling the amount of money that goes to charity.

  • Companies can use match funding to encourage and support individuals’ fundraising efforts. These initiatives can also be promoted internally to help rally co-workers to their cause and raise even more!
  • 65% of 16-24 year-old employees and 66% of 25-34 year-old employees say they will be more likely to donate if their employer matches their donation, according to a 2024 Charities Aid Foundation report.

Wage Schemes

Payroll Giving, or Give As You Earn (GAYE), allows employees to donate to charity before taxes are deducted from their salary, but before National Insurance contributions are paid.

  • Payroll Giving allows employees to tax-efficiently donate to any UK charity through their employer through PAYE.
  • Around 4,000 companies currently offer Payroll Giving.
  • Companies using Payroll Giving may wish to consider match funding donations and making it simple to opt in or out of a scheme to increase participation.
  • You can find a list of Payroll Giving agencies that can set up a scheme on HMRC’s website.

Charity of the Month or Year

Making Child Autism UK your charity of the month or the year can be a great way of raising awareness of autism over a longer period and rallying your employees around a headline charity.

  • Companies can create a calendar of events to raise money throughout the year.
  • Employees who have children with autism may want to share some of their own stories with the company.
  • A longer fundraising period or campaign lets you set more ambitious targets and goals that your employees can collectively work towards.

Child Autism UK can offer support, advice and resources to help you plan and promote your fundraising initiatives.

Autism awareness training days

Training days can supplement your fundraising activities and help educate your employees on autism.

It’s estimated that there are 700,000 autistic adults and children in the UK. There’s a good chance that someone in your organisation is autistic or is caring for an autistic child.

Autism awareness training helps you adjust processes across your organisation to help autistic people and parents with autistic children flourish — from recruitment and onboarding to line management support.

Case study: S&P Global Training Day

As part of the 2024 Autism Awareness Month in April, Child Autism UK ran an information training day and volunteering exercise with S&P Global. The training took place in S&P Global’s London office and was broadcast live to the wider company.

The interview-style discussion focused on several key areas, including helping people transition to a new environment, which can be especially relevant to people entering the workplace or who have an autistic child at home.

“Personally, I can’t tell you how much your words resonated with me….The hope inside me comes from charities like yours, with people who dedicate their lives to raising awareness and supporting families. You should be proud of yourselves.” – Training day attendee

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