Get involved
Join our hospice community, where corporate support plays a vital role in enhancing compassionate care.
Explore meaningful ways to get involved, from sponsoring impactful events to forging strategic partnerships. Join us in events or volunteer your time, and consider contributing through promotions, gifts in kind, or even setting up payroll giving. Your support empowers us to continue providing comfort and solace to those in need.
Together, let's help people and their families, in Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire, to live their precious lives well through improving symptoms, achieving personal goals and helping them to feel safe.
To find out more about supporting the Hospice please contact our Corporate Fundraising Team.
Corporate Sponsorship
Sponsorship is a fantastic way to support the Hospice whilst achieving a route to market and generating great brand awareness amongst your customers and our supporters.
We hold major events throughout the year, many of which are expensive to put on but with your help in reducing our costs, more money can go to those in our care.
Our events see a large number of participants attending:
- Garden Party - Over 6,000
- Bubble Rush - 2,500
- Mud Pack Challenge - Over 900
- Midnight Walk - Over 500
- Santa Dash - Over 500
Sponsors of our events include
Strategic Partnerships
Become one of our unique strategic partners and work together with us for mutual success.
Working with the Hospice in a long-term strategic relationship will help your company engage more effectively with customers and staff, increase awareness within the local community and make an impact on your sales.
The Local Partnership that Cares
We are delighted to launch the ‘Every Home is Precious’ partnership with Aitchisons combining our work in caring and supporting people and their families living with a life-limiting illness with an established residential agency which has always played an active part in their local community and who will make a donation for new sole agency instructions.
Aitchisons has been a strong supporter of the charity for several years and has now committed to helping it to increase awareness of its work and to generate much needed funds for running the Hospice.
Proud to back The Hospice of St Francis, launching a partnership with Every Home is Precious. Shared community goals unite us. We are all looking forward to progressing with the new initiatives.
Join in and make a difference
Whether you want to volunteer, organise your own event, or join one of our existing challenge events, we'll give you all the support you need.
Volunteering
Come and work in our grounds, our shops, or on specific projects around the building and enjoy doing something different for a day, encouraging team building and rapport.
Fundraising and Events
Run for us, get on your bike, enter a team in a Hospice Golf day or take on one of our other challenges - each year we have a number of places in events such as the London Marathon, RideLondon plus lots more.
Or challenge yourself and take part in one of our larger events. Whether you are entering a company team or taking part individually, we have a fantastic schedule of events throughout the year, including the Mud Pack Challenge and our Super Hero-themed - KAPOW!
Challenge your team and take part in one of our events
29 Nov 24 - 01 Jan 25
Ashridge Illuminated
Make a wish on our Wish Tree at Ashridge Illuminated
04 Jan 25 - 07 Jan 25
Christmas Tree Collections
Christmas Tree Collection
13 Jan 25
Couch to 5K with Jog On Running
Couch to 5K with Jog On Running
21 Feb 25 - 23 Feb 25
Calendar Girls
Calendar Girls at Berkhamsted Centenary Theatre
02 Mar 25
Berkhamsted Half Marathon and 5 mile Fun Run
Take on the legendary Berko Half Marathon
06 Apr 25
Brighton Marathon
26 Apr 25
Skydive
Take the leap of faith for your local Hospice
15 Jun 25
Bubble Rush
The Fun Run with a difference... Bubbles!
Promotions & Gifts in kind
Gifts in kind can save the Hospice an incredible amount of money, and often reduce our operating and event expenses.
You can help by donating equipment, food, services or expertise or even allowing us access to a venue free of charge.
We are always looking for items that we may be able to use as tombola, raffle or auction prizes for fundraising events held throughout the year.
Did you know?
Donations of goods or equipment - A company can get tax relief if they donate items that they would normally sell. If you give items to the Hospice, they are not counted as a sale, so your company can get tax relief on the cost of the article.
Volunteering - If employees are volunteering during work time, the company can claim tax relief for the employment costs incurred (employee’s salary). The company needs to treat the costs as a business expense when calculating chargeable profits for Corporation Tax purposes.
Lease with Vanarama or Motorama and support the Hospice
Our friends at Vanarama and Motorama understand that helping the community is just as important as offering great lease deals on personal and commercial vehicles – that’s why they commit a lot of time and money to several charities across the country including The Hospice of St Francis.
But did you know that every time you lease a vehicle from Vanarama and Motorama and quote reference ‘HOSPICE200’, they will donate £200 to us?
Whether you’re looking for your next dream car, or a commercial vehicle for your business, not only will you be getting yourself a great deal, you’ll be helping us to help people live their precious lives well.
For personal vehicles visit www.motorama.com
For commercial vehicles visit www.vanarama.co.uk
Matched and Payroll Giving
Payroll Giving is one of the easiest and most flexible ways to give to The Hospice of St Francis.
All your employees’ donations are sent directly to a Payroll Giving Agency (PGA) who will handle the transfer of funds directly to the Hospice.
This makes it easy for your staff to support us in the most highly tax efficient manner.
It is the only way of giving to charity that allows full tax relief on donations, and there are virtually no set-up costs.
