Time to care for our business community - working in partnership with our local community is central to our fundraising strategy. This includes engaging with local businesses, employers, and companies to create meaningful relationships across Somerset so we can continue delivering care for our community.
By becoming a corporate partner, you demonstrate your commitment to helping us continue providing palliative and end-of-life care for families across Somerset. At the same time, your partnership with St Margaret’s Hospice Care makes a strong and positive statement about the values that underpin your organisation and its approach to corporate social responsibility. Teaming up with a trusted and much-loved local charity that reaches right into the heart of the community allows your business to:
The nature of our work means that we are likely to have helped some of your employees, directly or indirectly, and therefore, we find businesses that choose to support us gain a great level of engagement from their teams.
If you are looking for a cause to support during the year, we’d love to hear from you.
Together, we will create a bespoke calendar of engaging events and opportunities, tailored to help meet your business goals and corporate social responsibility needs. We will be on hand to advise how your staff can get involved in fundraising activities, as well as volunteering time and skills.
From taking part in our annual Wear it Yellow campaign, to entering teams into our Colour Run or offering staff team-building opportunities in our retail warehouse, or perhaps on the grounds of either of our hospices, there are plenty of practical ways you can support our hospice care. Our newest member of the team, the Busy Bee mascot, is always on hand to visit your premises or appear at events to rally staff at your fundraising activities!
We have several sponsorship opportunities, which offer both naming rights for companies, as well as branding and PR opportunities, plus employee engagement activities. From mass public participation events targeting families, to black-tie balls attended by other local companies, our portfolio of events offers a range of commercial opportunities to suit a range of budgets.
Every year, we organise a variety of fundraising events, from our family-friendly Colour Run, and county-wide Christmas Tree Collection, to our more challenging Ultra Hike or Skydive for our daredevil supporters.
To maximise the income potential of these fundraising events, where we ask participants to raise funds, we seek corporate sponsorship to help underwrite the costs of putting the event on. This helps us direct more of the fundraising income to our hospice care, and it gives local businesses a chance to promote their brand while showing their support of a locally loved cause – it’s a win-win opportunity.
Each sponsorship package is different, but in return for your support, you will receive branding on all promotional materials, online and offline, as well as mentions and links on our website and at the event itself. Some events also offer naming rights and product placement opportunities, as well as some free places on events for employees. You will also benefit from a social media campaign, any mentions on paid-for advertising and inclusion on all participant communications, meaning you will reach potentially hundreds if not thousands of local people from across our community.
To discuss any of the opportunities please call 01823 365615 or email us.
We are also keen to talk to local businesses and organisations who may want to sponsor one of our services or projects. There are options such as sponsoring a nurse, or other projects include sponsoring the costs of equipment, spaces and potentially buildings. We would work with you to ensure that any sponsorship of our clinical service is done respectfully and in keeping with our values, while recognising the enormous benefit of having our running and capital costs underwritten.
In return, your business can build company and brand awareness and enhance your position as a socially responsible company in your local area. Your business name and logo will also be highly visible in relation to the service you choose to sponsor, among other benefits.
If you are fundraising with friends and family or even colleagues, companies will show their support for their employees through match funding. Talk to your employer to understand whether it’s something they offer and start fundraising today. It means your efforts go that much further, usually up to a certain amount, effectively doubling your donation.
Payroll Giving, also known as Give as You Earn (GAYE), is one of the simplest and most efficient ways for employees to support us. The scheme allows you to automatically give a gift to us each payday before tax is taken out of your pay, so it is also tax-efficient for you!
Volunteering for St Margaret’s provides a very real opportunity for staff development, individually and as part of a team. If you think that your workforce can support the hospice by giving your time to help build our capacity, then please take a look at current opportunities and get in touch.
If you would simply like to make a donation to acknowledge and support the work of the hospice, you can securely donate online or via BACS transfer. Or if you prefer, we are still happy to receive cheques by post, made payable to “St Margaret’s Somerset Hospice” to the address St Margaret’s Hospice, Heron Drive, Bishops Hull, Taunton TA1 5HA.
“We are delighted to be sponsoring a paint station at St Margaret’s Colour Run again in 2024. Supporting St Margaret’s is extremely important to Amicus Law. A charity at the heart of our community supporting so many people and their families.”
Blackdown Financial are kindly supporting St Margaret’s Hospice Care for our annual Santa Abseil, as the 2024 event headline sponsor. Blackdown believe in the importance of our charity’s mission and have continuously supported the hospice over many years by taking part in other events such as the Cricket Bash and Colour Run. Director Simon Cutler has also been kind enough to produce a video case study to tell his personal story and how the hospice helped during this time.
“Buses of Somerset are delighted to be supporting this wonderful charity and in particular their Christmas Tree Collection Fundraiser! We are looking forward to working closely with St Margaret’s Hospice to raise the awareness of this festive initiative to the local community. This is a particularly exciting collaboration for us as we appreciate how important community and support are at a time like Christmas, as well as the environmental benefits that come with Christmas Tree collection.
We hope that our work will spread some festive cheer at what can be such a stressful time for families, parents and carers supporting someone with their end-of-life care.”
Clarke Willmott were delighted to be able to support a cause as worthwhile as St Margaret’s, a charity that provides inspirational support to members of our local community. The team volunteered at the 2024 Colour Run event by cheering participants on, collecting donations and serving refreshments.
Nicky Chrascina, founder of Flanci, said: “It was an honour to be asked to develop some sunflower leggings for St Margaret’s Hospice. As a small local business, we are delighted that we can do something to help such a fantastic organisation that helps so many people in our area. “A very dear friend of ours received fantastic care from St Margaret’s when she sadly had cancer.”
Surface pattern designer Jan Olive said: “It was lovely to work with the St Margaret’s Hospice colours and sunflower to create a cheerful, sunny print.”
We are proud to have the continual support of Gibbins Richards with various activities/events.
Greenslade Taylor Hunt has long been a supporter of the extraordinary work that St Margaret’s Hospice Care carries out in our local communities. We are delighted to continue our headline sponsorship of their popular ‘Glorious Gardens’ event – which seems fitting when we market so many Somerset properties with delightful gardens! We’re intrigued to see gardens of all shapes and sizes, lovingly cared for by their owners and hope to tour many of them this summer while helping to raise as much as possible to help support St Margaret’s continued efforts.
“HOST have chosen to support St Margaret’s Hospice again this year for their 2024 Move-a-thon fundraiser. The Hospice has had such a significant impact on some of our team members whose loved ones were cared for by them over the last year. They felt the level of care and service provided was completely invaluable to them and their families, during what was such an emotional and difficult time. The team now want to take the opportunity to give something back, and to say thank you by raising money so the hospice can continue their fantastic work for other families who may need them in the future.”
Mademoiselle Desserts are kindly sponsoring our Sapphire Birthday Dip on Saturday 2 March 2025.
“The Mademoiselle Desserts team is incredibly proud to support St Margaret’s Hospice and celebrate their Sapphire Birthday by sponsoring the Dip. As a company that values community and togetherness, we’re delighted to contribute to such an important cause, helping to make a difference for those in need. We admire those taking the plunge and showing their support in a fun and memorable way!”
Mogers Drewett were proud to be one of our headline sponsors for The Colour Run Remix again in 2023. “At Mogers Drewett we pride ourselves on building relationships with our clients and also with the local community in which we work. We were delighted to be headline sponsor of the St Margaret’s Hospice Colour Run 2024 to support the amazing work that the hospice does in our local community. It also gave our teams the opportunity to get fit and have fun.”
Mandy Bridge, Director of Operations at Nuffield Health Taunton Hospital, said: “Nuffield Health Taunton Hospital is one of the leading providers of private healthcare in the South–West. We are proud to sponsor the St Margaret’s Ball for the third year running, especially as they celebrate their 45th anniversary. St Margaret’s Hospice help patients, families and carers across Somerset facing life-limiting illness and is valued greatly by the local community. We hope you enjoy your evening and have fun fundraising.”
“In celebration of our 20th anniversary of supporting training and development in Somerset and the South–West, Pitman Training Taunton is proud to announce a strengthened partnership with St. Margaret’s Hospice. Our long-standing relationship with St. Margaret’s has been a source of mutual support and inspiration, and we are excited to enhance this bond by naming them as our nominated charity for the year.”
”As a team, Primark is passionate about getting together to support worthy causes in the community where we live and work. This year we have been given a budget to create gift packs to donate to a local charity in our community and as a team we have chosen St Margaret’s Hospice, which was a unanimous decision. Most of our team know or know of someone who has been cared for by St Margaret’s which has ignited a passion to do as much as we possibly can to help. Our aim is not only to donate from the budget given by Primark but also to allow our customers/colleagues the chance to get involved by purchasing and donating items within the store.”
“Taunton Solicitors are proud to be supporting St Margaret’s Hospice in any avenue that we can. Our long-standing relationship with the hospice has been an inspiration and we are delighted to continue this partnership by nominating St Margaret’s Hospice as our charity of the year’’
”At the UK Hydrographic Office, our volunteers in the UKHO Charity Committee ask our staff choose a charity to support for two years. We ask for nominations from charity champions across the organisation and put this to an all-staff vote. St Margaret’s was successful in our 2024 vote and will be our nominated charity for 2024-25. The charity is supported purely through fundraising and donations from our staff, through a variety of events such as bake sales, quizzes, and sponsored activities.
Our charity champions nominated St Margaret’s Hospice owing to personal connections with the charity and this was echoed through the vote, with so many lives in the local area touched by the work of St Margaret’s, it is a pleasure to be able to fundraise for such a worthy cause that supports our local community.”
The Minehead and Watchet offices are pleased to support the hospice with the sponsorship of the New Year’s Day Charity Dip 2024.
“Yellow Peach are proud to be a headline sponsor for St Margaret’s Hospice Wear it Yellow Campaign 2024 as it aligns with our commitment to community support and raising awareness for crucial care services. By sponsoring this campaign, we are honoured to contribute to the exceptional care and support provided to patients and their families during challenging times. Plus, who doesn’t love yellow?’’
Koller is honoured to name St Margaret’s Hospice Care as our charity of the year. The compassionate care St Margaret’s provides to patients and families facing life-limiting illnesses has touched many lives in our community, including those of our own team members. This cause holds a special place in our hearts, and we’re committed to supporting its comprehensive services throughout Somerset. We look forward to partnering with St Margaret’s and contributing to ensure their vital services remain available to all who need them across our community.
If you run a business or work for a company that is looking to give back to a local cause do get in touch today. Call us on 01823 365615 or send us an email to learn how we can partner up to make a difference.
