Involve Your Employees
There are 3 key
ways you can involve your employees in supporting Samaritans:
- fundraising
- payroll
giving
- volunteering
Fundraising
Staff fundraising is a great way to get colleagues
talking. It provides opportunities for team building,
fundraising and can improve interpersonal relationships in the
workplace.
Challenge events are a popular way of raising funds for
Samaritans. Team events have been run by our Charity of the Year
partners such as CMS Cameron McKenna and Trader Media
Group.
Our experienced Community Fundraisers organise these events,
making the process as simple and easy as possible for you.
People can cycle from London to Paris, run the London Marathon,
parachute jump or bungee jump together.
We can provide all you need to fundraise in your workplace,
collection buckets and tins, sponsor forms, balloons and even
running vests for the more energetic activities!
Read more
about the Challenge events that you can take part in to help raise
funds for Samaritans
Looking for
ideas of fundraising activities?
For more information please contact Corporateteam@samaritans.org or
telephone +44 (0)20 8394 8288.
Payroll Giving
Payroll Giving is the most tax efficient way
to give to charity. Payroll Giving is a valuable, long term
source of revenue, providing regular income to help charities
budget and plan ahead more effectively.
The donation comes from the gross pay, before
tax is deducted. For example, to donate £5.00 a month to
Samaritans will only cost you £4.00 as the tax man will add
the remaining £1.00
| You donate |
It costs
you
(basic rate taxpayer) |
It costs you
(higher rate taxpayer) |
| £5.00 |
£4.00 |
£3.00 |
| £7.50 |
£6.00 |
£4.50 |
| £10.00 |
£8.00 |
£6.00 |
| £20.00 |
£16.00 |
£12.00 |
A third of working Britons would give through
their salary if they knew how, according to a survey by
Oxfam/YouGov plc. And regular, predictable support helps us plan
our work with confidence, so we can continue to be always there for
people in crisis.
You can find more information about Payroll
Giving at Geared
for Giving
To join the Payroll Giving scheme, ask your payroll office if
they already handle or would be willing to administer Payroll
Giving payments or:
- Download & complete the form below
- Hand one copy to your employer’s payroll department and return
one copy to Samaritans at the address on the form.
Payroll Giving Form (Word
document)
Payroll Giving Form (PDF
document)
If your employer is not
registered with a payroll giving agency, please contact payrollgiving@samaritans.org
or telephone +44 (0) 20 8394 8352 and we will contact them and make
the necessary arrangements.
If you have any questions about payroll giving, or other ways
you can support Samaritans then please contact us:
- By E-mail - payrollgiving@samaritans.org
- By Telephone - Corporates and Trusts Department on 0208 394
8300.
- By Mail - Corporates and Trusts Department, Samaritans, Upper
Mill, Kingston Road, Ewell, Surrey, KT17 2AF
“Just keep on helping people, don’t stop. I
desperately needed to talk to someone to support me through a very
difficult period in my life. I don’t think I would be here now if
it wasn’t for you. Thank you”.
Samaritans caller
Volunteering
Listening
When no one else will listen, Samaritans will. It is extremely
rewarding to offer support to people who don’t know how to cope.
And good active listening skills can help in work and personal
situations. All our branches are looking for more listening
volunteers so that the next time a caller in distress rings
Samaritans, we have a person available to answer the phone.
If you are interested in volunteering as a Samaritans Listening
volunteer please visit our
volunteering pages.
Publicity
Manning our telephone lines isn’t enough. We
need publicity officers to communicate our contact details in the
local community. Then, people will know how to reach Samaritans
when they need us most. Or maybe the branch is raising money by
holding an event and wants to generate press coverage?
Are you interested in putting Samaritans on
the map? Contact your local
branch
Fundraising
Money may not make the world go round, but it
certainly helps to give Samaritans alive. We need new and creative
ideas for raising money! And we need people to donate their time to
help out at events and collections. Could you be the money
spinner we need?
Administration
Even Samaritans branches have to pay an
electricity bill! We need people to help perform the
behind-the-scenes tasks that keep the branch operating
efficiently.
Maybe you could help manage the volunteer
rota? This role needs a key person who wants to be known by every
volunteer at the branch! Contact
your local branch
You can develop their communication,
managerial, mentoring and coaching skills by volunteering to help
with the following:
- Branch administration
- Finance and book-keeping
- IT support
- In our shops
- Acting as a business mentor for a branch director
- Maintenance work e.g. branch redecoration or shop re-fit
- Researching the local community to identify the most vulnerable
groups to reach out to
- Outreach work e.g. talking with teachers in local schools and
governors in local prisons to organise talks/visits for our
outreach team
- Organising a volunteer recruitment campaign and a caller
awareness campaign for certain target groups
Occasional support
On top of all these ways that people can help
Samaritans, there are a number of “one off” awareness and
fundraising events that branches hold throughout the
year.
Why not contact
your local branch to see how you can help at one or
two of these events?
Could be anything from helping out at a
collection outside a supermarket to helping at a concert or
donating a prize for a raffle.