Corporate fundraising

Our Fundraising and Volunteering Team can help you with lots of ideas and tips for raising funds, provide support where it’s needed and assist you with events. There are lots of benefits to supporting Warrington Disability Partnership:

• increases staff morale
• builds your brand awareness in the local community
• generates business
• helps you meet your corporate social responsibility goals

Supporting and working with Warrington Disability will also provide unique opportunities to network.

Our current wishlist

Our priority fundraising areas for 2026 are:

• Wheelchairs or boot scooters for use in our Mobility Loans Fleet which provide mobility and independence to people requiring wheelchairs and boot scooters on a temporary basis. 

• Materials for raised flower beds for use of members of our Lunch Clubs. 

• Highbacked chairs for use in our Equipment Loans Service. 

• Replacing chairs and tables in our Galleries Community Cafe and meeting rooms which are used by several local community support groups, members of our lunch groups and the disability charities. 

• Three laptops for use in our meeting rooms.  

Charity of the Month or Year

Naming Warrington Disability Partnership as your charity of the Month or Year is not only great publicity for your organisation, but it also provides focus for your fundraising activities. Some ways in which companies help us as their charity of the Month or Year include:

• making a general one off or regular donation 

• matching employees’ fundraising efforts with £ for £ sponsorship 

• raising funds for a specific project 

• encouraging employees to take part in our fundraising events 

• organising a team-building event 
• encouraging a payroll giving scheme 

What’s more, it’s one of the best ways of creating a team-building culture whilst raising valuable funds for a great charity

Corporate challenges

There’s no better way to build morale than to create an in-house challenge. Perhaps a race, football match, walk or other event that gets people working together in teams and competing against each other to raise money! 

For example, Jamie Boyd and his staff at the Today Team organised a Hot Coals Challenge raising funds for WDP and AKW organise an annual Charity Golf Day for WDP.

Take part in one of our events

You don’t have to organise your own event, you can encourage your employees to take part in one of ours. We have an exciting calendar of fundraising events and we’re always happy to help you promote these. Take a look at Support our events section for ideas.

Corporate sponsorship and support

We organise a wide range of well-attended events which can provide a great place for you to advertise and show your support for Warrington Disability Partnership at the same time. Just two examples: our Disability Awareness Day attracts around 24,000 visitors each year and around 1,000,000 hits on our website. Take a look at the Disability Awareness Day section for ideas. Or support our Annual Charity Dinner. Held each year at the Village Hotel in Warrington, attended by over 200 guests.

New for 2026, we are planning a very special Three Deeps Scuba Challenge. Where participants will undertake three 18m dives in one day. The first in Scotland in the morning, then on to England mid-day and finally, North Wales late afternoon.   

Payroll giving

Giving to a charity via your payroll is both simple and tax-effective. Around five million people in the UK do this each year, because it’s a more tax-efficient way to give to charity, since deductions are made before tax. You can get more information about payroll giving from the HM Revenue & Customs website. You can also use a service such as Pennies from Heaven to make things even simpler, nominating Warrington Disability Partnership as your charity.

Tax-efficient donations

Companies can claim tax relief for donations to UK charities as a charge against income in their corporation tax. If you’re a partner or sole trader, then gifts to charities can be claimed on your tax self-assessment form. When gifts are made from partnerships, they are treated as donations of an equal amount from each partner, unless the partners specify otherwise. Please talk to your accountant or tax advisor for more information or check the information about gifts made to charity from companies on the HM Revenue & Customs website.

Secondment of employees and volunteer days

Giving time to Warrington Disability Partnership is guaranteed to be motivating and inspiring and really does help us to provide our services. This can be a secondment, for a specific activity or role, or perhaps they can volunteer to help out at one of our events. Corporate team buildings days can be used to assist with painting, clear-ups or refurbishing a meeting room or café.

Examples include staff from EE, ABB and Handelsbanken, send teams of volunteers to assist with our Disability Awareness Day and Santa’s Grotto.  

Gifts in kind

Almost anything produced or sold by a business can be given as a gift in kind, either for us to resell or to help us deliver one of our services. Other creative gifts in kind that can have a real impact include:

• adding our literature in with your mailshots, payslips or invoices.
• putting a page about Warrington Disability Partnership on your website.

You can find out more about gifts in kind from the HM Revenue & Customs website.