Ideas for businesses

DO TEAM-BUILDING, MAKE A TEAM

Encourage workers to give support to a project by voluntarily giving part of their wages either regularly or as a one-off donation (it can be any sum: a euro or more); make collections of material (school and/or computer material, balls, books, etc.); organise challenges (a table tennis tournament with a charity entry fee of 3 euros, a team entering a race, etc.); or hold a charity market (selling cakes or second-hand books). The business can complement the financial or in-kind contribution from workers with an equivalent or higher sum.

Idilia Foods organised an internal charity day and some of its workers set aside part of their wages to make a donation. For its part, the company complemented this with a financial contribution.

CHARITY EVENTS

You can organise internal events to bring in donations from everyone, like raffles, races, breakfasts, book or second-hand markets, traditional rose stalls for St George’s Day, and give the money raised from entry fees or sales to our solidarity projects.

The company Bayer organised a second-hand market among its workers and donated part of the amount collected for our foundation.

MATERIAL COLLECTION

To carry out the activities aimed at children in vulnerable situations, we need many products and materials. So many companies help us by promoting collections of materials among workers. At the same time, the company can make a financial donation equivalent to the value of the products collected to incentivise higher participation.

Every year, Zurich’s workers make a collection of school materials for children at our socioeducational centres and, at the same time, the Zurich foundation makes a financial donation for the value of the material given.

CHARITY SALES

If you are a business that sells products or services on- or off-line, you can set aside a percentage of the sale amount to one of our social projects and, at the same time, get your customers to participate in a charity cause through this purchase.

The Turris bakeries gives a percentage of the sales of its “Secalls” product to our organisation.

GIVING SERVICES

Giving your service free of charge helps a great deal, as it allows us to carry out the activities we organise for children in vulnerable situations with better quality. You can give advertising space to publicise our calls for solidarity more widely; offer coaches for outings and excursions for children; produce videos or printed material about our solidarity campaigns or provide any other service you believe could help us.

Every year, Autocars Bardet gives us coach services so children and young people can enjoy a day out at Tibidabo or have a fun day in the snow.

PUBLICITY SPACE

You can help us to publicise our projects and campaigns to help children in vulnerable situations more widely by putting one of our banners on your website, publishing an advertisement in your magazine or newsletter or adapting a space at your company or establishment for us to put up flyers or posters about our solidarity campaigns.

Many media give us space to publish or place advertisements about our solidarity campaigns. Organisations and businesses like FGC, TMB and Illa Diagonal also help us in this way.

SUPPORT FOR INCLUSION IN THE JOB MARKET

For many young people in vulnerable situations, having the chance to visit a company, find out about its internal operation and even being able to do work experience there is a source of motivation that can help them to decide their professional future and acquire more knowledge.

The companies Semillas Fitó and Climava have given young migrant people the opportunity to train and even obtain employment contracts.