corporate social hospitality

People, planet, profit – show you care

Showing that you care about your local community is a great boost for business.

Business today is not just about profit – although that’s very important, of course. It’s also about being socially responsible and creating sustainable practices so that your customers, investors and society at large will see you in a positive light.

It’s also proven that employees are drawn to work for businesses with a good public image, and getting actively involved in good causes is great for workplace morale. Encourage your employees to come up with great ideas for socially responsible initiatives, and make sure they are involved every step of the way.

Adopting corporate social responsibility is a win-win in every way: not only does it have a positive impact on the workplace, it’s brilliant for your brand because it attracts customer trust and respect.

Your business can demonstrate corporate social responsibility in lots of different ways: by raising money for charity, supporting the environment, championing good causes, and even creating good, transparent working conditions.

There’s no ‘right way’ to be a good corporate citizen this Christmas … so why not start local, build community trust and add lasting value. The rewards are huge!

Recycle your Christmas Tree for Chestnut Tree

This year, businesses and residents in Sussex can get their Christmas trees collected in return for a donation to Chestnut Tree House children’s hospice, who support children with life-shortening conditions and their families.

Christmas is a busy time for everyone, and this initiative is a great way to dispose of your Christmas tree in a hassle-free and environmentally friendly way, whilst also supporting your local community.

Are you looking for a team-building opportunity?

Chestnut Tree House are also seeking individuals and businesses with vans, lorries, and everything in between to give their time to the Christmas Tree recycling scheme. If you’re looking for a team-building opportunity, then this is perfect for you! If you would like to get involved, please email volunteers@stbh.org.uk.

Make a difference

Whatever way you get involved with the recycling scheme, you can be sure you are making a big difference to your local children’s hospice. It costs over £4 million each year to provide all the care services offered by Chestnut Tree House. Families are never charged for their care and only a small proportion of the hospice’s care costs are funded by central government, so they rely heavily on the generosity, help and support of people like you.

To check if a collection is happening in your postcode and to get your tree collected please register via Just Helping, a UK charity founded in 2012 who are working with Chestnut Tree House to raise much needed funds this Christmas. Once signed up to the scheme, volunteers will collect the Christmas trees between 08 - 11 January 2022. Visit www.just-helping. org.uk/register-tree to sign up now (registration closes midnight Wednesday 05 January 2022).

Live well, enjoy life, and love every day

Guild Care is Worthing’s leading social care charity, supporting people to live well, enjoy life, and love every day.

Our charity has been making a difference to the lives of the people of Worthing and its surrounding areas since being established by a team of dedicated volunteers in 1933.

Today we run three care homes and a range of community services. Our mission is to deliver innovative and life-changing care services which help older people, children and adults with learning disabilities, and those living with dementia and their carers to share and enjoy a richer family and community life.

Our care homes – Linfield House, Caer Gwent, and Haviland House – provide residential, nursing, and dementia care in safe, purpose-built environments. We pride ourselves on taking the time to really get to know each resident and delivering compassionate and attentive personcentred care. Each home is not-for-profit, enabling us to keep enhancing our residents’ facilities and support the local community.

Our community services range from Home Care, which enables people to lead better quality lives whilst remaining in their own homes, to a range of day services, which helps members of our community to create connections and reduce social isolation. Our range of respite services also allow some of our service users’ carers time away from supporting their loved one safe in the knowledge that they are being properly cared for.

If you would like to make a donation, fundraise, or become a volunteer, please visit www.guildcare.org or call

01903 327327.

Rockinghorse Children’s Charity

Rockinghorse Children’s Charity makes a difference to the lives of poorly children and their families across the whole of Sussex.

Whether its funding state of the art equipment to help premature babies, toys and activities to help distract children being treated in hospital, or psychotherapy to help young people with cancer, our support helps thousands of children and their families every year.

A hospital stay can be a scary experience for anyone, let alone for a child, so we work hard to make that experience is as good as it possibly can be.

And we have been providing this support since we were set up in 1967 by Dr Trevor Mann as the official fundraising arm of the Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital in Brighton.

We raise money to provide live-saving medical equipment and additional services with the aim of improving the lives of sick children throughout Sussex.

Along with the Royal Alex and the Trevor Mann Baby Unit, Rockinghorse also supports the Special Care Baby Unit in the Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath along with paediatric wards, specialist neonatal units, respite centres and children’s services across Sussex.

As we receive no government funding, we rely on the generous support of individuals, community groups and companies, in fact people just like you.

To find out more about what we do and how you can help, get in touch:

Website: www.rockinghorse.org.uk

Telephone: 01273 330044

Email: enquiries@rockinghorse.org.uk

Education - the key to a better world

Pestalozzi International Foundation provides scholarships for motivated 16–19-yearolds from some of the world’s poorest communities, through the Pestalozzi-UWC Scholarship Programme.

Pestalozzi invests in the education of high achieving, low-income students who would struggle to access quality further education. This helps break the cycle of intergenerational poverty for the students and empowers them to develop their potential to make an impact in society. Our alumni are well-rounded global citizens who are equipped to reap the benefits of tertiary education while others return to their home countries and join the world of work, both paid and voluntary. Pestalozzi alumni have followed career paths including healthcare, conservation, medical research, international development, engineering and education. They have also founded their own schools and not for profit organisations.

The Pestalozzi Development Fund provides alumni with grants to establish or expand projects to benefit their own or other developing communities. To date 25 projects have benefited, including 7 alumni assisted with university costs. Social enterprises supported include toilet construction in Nigeria, waste recycling in Zimbabwe and Nepal (pictured), period poverty in Zimbabwe and an antenatal initiative in Zambia.

Your business can make a real and significant difference by:

Making Pestalozzi International Foundation your Charity of the Year

Engage employees through workplace fundraising

Set up Payroll Giving for your employees

Achieve your CSR objectives and demonstrate conclusively that you believe in a better future.

For more information about the charity’s work please contact us on office@pestalozzi.org.uk or 01424 870444

www.pestalozzi.org.uk