At Dandelion Time, we know that when businesses and charities work together, amazing things happen. Every partnership is unique—built around your company’s goals—while helping children and families heal, grow, and thrive. From team challenges to sock design competitions, our partners have shown that supporting us can be imaginative, meaningful, and deeply rewarding.
Here are seven proven ways your company can get involved.
Contact our Corporate Relationship Manager, Lizzie Hoskins to explore partnership opportunities.
1. Create something bespoke
The most effective partnerships are built around your company’s strengths.
Ruxley Manor Garden Centre has gone all out with till donations, donating a percentage of profits from a specially designed mug, a staff cycling challenge, and even inviting our families to special events, like the annual circus or Christmas ice-skating and a visit to Santa’s Grotto. They also have displays throughout the centre, helping us raise awareness of the work we do.
Macknade has embraced our shared love of the natural world and community, creating customer events to raise money, from children’s activity sessions to quiz nights and more.
2. Make us your Charity of the Year
This type of partnership gives your team a clear focus for fundraising and brings colleagues together.
Invicta Law raised over £1,000 through staff-led events.
Delineate took on the Welsh Three Peaks challenge, blending team building with impact.
3. Sponsor or support an event
Your support can make our events truly shine.
Fidelity helped light up our Candlelit Christmas with sponsorship.
Cook Food, Owlet Fruit Juice and Speldhurst Foods all donated delicious treats for our events – helping us keep costs down and maximise our fundraising.
Novacor and Ward sponsored our Golf Day, with teams from Novacor, Ward, Vida Fresh, and Cook hitting the greens.
4. Back a campaign
Campaign partnerships deliver powerful results in a short time.
Gallagher UK secured £10,000 through the Aviva Broker Fund for our ‘More than a building’ campaign which raised funds to help us develop our site near Ashford. They also doubled staff fundraising with employer matching.
Last year, Novacor and iPrism donated to our Christmas Big Give campaign, helping to make it our most successful yet. As an annual campaign, we’re delighted that Ward and CSIS have pledged their support to help raise £40,000 this year.
5. Volunteer together
Corporate volunteering is practical, meaningful, and team building in the truest sense. It’s a way to make a tangible, lasting difference while strengthening bonds within your team.
Groups from Virgin Media, John Lewis, Gallagher, McArthur Glen, Vida Fresh, Brakes, Fidelity, Ward, iPrism, Global Sign, Lloyds Banking, Cabot Financial, Lloyds of London, Ruxley have joined us in the last year to:
6. Unique fundraisers
We love to find unique, standout ways to raise money together.
VidaFresh, who bring fruit-themed games to our May Fayre with delicious fresh fruit prizes – from a pineapple shy to a human fruit machine. Always a favourite with our visitors.
Swole Panda who ran a sock design competition that combined creativity and customer engagement with fundraising.
7. Give through corporate foundations or funds
Corporate foundations provide a powerful channel for impact.
NFU Mutual’s Agency Giving Fund supported placements at our Shorne site with a donation of nearly £8,000.
South East Water contributed £2,000 to fund rainwater harvesting barrels and a hand pump—eco-friendly solutions with therapeutic benefits for children.
