Support Us Corporate Opportunities Why choose us? By choosing RLSS UK you are making an incredible difference helping us achieve our vision of a world without anyone losing their lives to drowning. The risk of losing one’s life to drowning touches us all, including your employees and your customers. From raising money to raising awareness, corporate partnerships are vital to helping us reduce the number of lives lost to drowning. We have a huge challenge facing us to help save lives and reduce the number of UK and Irish citizens from drowning. Working with corporates of all sizes and in various sectors, helps us to build our sustainable income. As well as supporting us in the work we do, you will be engaging your employees and customers to come together in fundraising activities whether it’s baking a cake or jumping out of a plane! We are privileged to work with a range of businesses that share our vision to do more every day, so why don't you join us? Download the RLSS UK Corporate Opportunities Brochure The benefits of teaming up with RLSS UK By becoming a Corporate Partner, you demonstrate your commitment to helping us achieve our vision of a world without anyone losing their lives to drowning. At the same time your partnership with RLSS UK 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 charity allows your business to: Get your message out beyond your on-customer base by reaching and engaging with our lifesaver communities across the UK and Ireland Be supported by a dedicated Account Manager, who will work with you to create a bespoke partnership to meet your needs. Whether or not your organisation has worked with a charity before, we’ll make it easy for you to get involved and feel valued Make a real social impact, enhance your corporate social responsibility reputation, and secure positive PR. We are delighted to offer the opportunity for a company/companies to sponsor several of our products and Increase brand awareness and credibility by working with a national ‘Royal’ charity Provide staff with a chance to become actively involved in our work. Either in engaging in our awareness or supporting us to spread our awareness and training further. Opportunity We are seeking organisations that share our quality and ambition to help us to immunise the next generation of young people against drowning, by encouraging water activity and progression of safety knowledge. This is a unique opportunity to go on the journey with us. We have some great ideas to build momentum, but we can tailor our package and approach to mutually benefit both of our objectives. Co-design is important to how we develop and evolve, and we are keen to work with organisations who share the same philosophy. Are you looking for brand exposure? Youth focused market materials to more than 220 Leisure Sites and 300 Lifesaving Clubs Exhibition and event opportunities and on-site distribution of your chosen materials Designated area on our website, including a quote, your company’s information, logo and a link to your website Promotion in RLSS UK member-based communications Targeted social media campaigns aimed to reach in excess of 100,000 Sponsorship of major campaigns and events Sponsorship, engagement and fundraising options We are looking for organisations to share our journey and there are various ways you and your staff can get involved: Provide discounts and promotions to members, increasing propensity to engage with your brand Fundraising events - We have several challenge events throughout the year that provide your staff with the opportunity to stretch themselves physically whilst raising vital funds for the charity. We are also always happy to support your staff with their own fundraising ideas. Charity of the Year – we are a community organisation and can work with you to tailor your own staff’s ideas to plan an exciting year of events and engagement opportunities. Employee Volunteering – We can train staff to deliver our awareness programmes and community training to their friends, family, local community groups and schools. Take a look at our ‘Adopt A School’ insert for just one example of the opportunities on offer. Employee Training - We have a number of wonderful courses that are a real win in terms of you adding value to your staff. Our Community Outreach Programme teaches basic adult CPR, child CPR and Baby CPR as well as supporting confidence with using a defibrillator – Find out more about our Community Outreach Programme – Save A Series. In addition, we can provide staff with water safety awareness and rescue training. Payroll Giving If you want to support the causes close to your employee’s hearts, why not enrol in payroll giving or do a joint promotion to showcase RLSS UK as a potential beneficiary to those staff who are new to payroll giving. A regular donation to RLSS UK can go a long way. Aligning brands to increase our joint impact - Cause-related marketing is a great way to raise both money and While a company can benefit from association with a cause important to the local community, RLSS UK can benefit from improved awareness and a percentage or specified amount from each product sold. Make a company donation - If you would simply like to make a contribution to acknowledge and support the work of RLSS UK you can do so online or via BACS transfer. Or if you prefer, we are still happy to receive cheques by post. You can donate using our secure online payment system here or by sending a cheque made payable to “Royal Life Saving Society UK” to: Royal Life Saving Society UK Red Hill House 227 London Road Worcester WR5 2JG Make an online payment or BACS transfer Download the RLSS UK Corporate Opportunities Brochure However, your company would like to get involved you can call us to discuss the opportunities. We’d love to hear from you. You can contact our Charity Director, Lee Heard on 0300 323 0096 or by email [email protected]org.uk if you would like to discuss this opportunity further. Want to know more about RLSS UK? Take a look our charities Strategic Framework You can read our 2019 Impact Report hereYou can read our 2020 Impact Report here