For Companies
We’re asking companies to bring the whole office together for just one wonderful hour to raise funds to support patients in your local hospice this April.
The concept is simple, employers are asked to give one hour of time to employees, on a date of your choosing throughout the month of April 2025. In exchange, employees are asked to donate an hour of their salary to the company’s chosen hospice.
Is your company ready to sign up? Here’s how:
- Register on behalf of your company by clicking on the Register My Company button and select the hospice your organisation wishes to support.
- Your local hospice will be in touch to provide you with your digital pack containing assets to support your company to participate and engage employees in the event.
- Choose a date in April for your company to give an hour of time to employees.
- Communicate your event details internally with employees using our email template included in your digital pack.
- Circulate your company’s personalised fundraising URL where employees are asked to donate an hour of their salary using our online wage calculator.
Company Event Ideas
MORNING COFFEE BREAK
Get coffee and pastries in for the staff & take an hour to chat with your colleagues over a cuppa.
WELL-BEING HOUR
- Host a meditation or yoga session during lunchbreak.
- Offer employees some flexi-time to finish work an hour early or arrive at the office an hour later
- Simply give people an hour off to do something important to them such as spend time with family or friends or do an activity they enjoy.
LUNCHTIME TREAT
Get your teams favourite takeaway delivered at lunchtime for everyone in the office.
GET CREATIVE & HOST A BALLOON RAFFLE
Give each employee (who donated) a ticket with a number on it. Each ticket corresponds with a number written on a balloon. Each balloon has a treat inside such as; an extra annual leave day, an afternoon off work, a movie or concert tickets or a free Monday morning coffee!
Remember! Your event can be as simple as you like and can be organised in line your resources.
The most important thing is that employees are being treated to something special in exchange for donating an hour of their salary to hospice.
Why get involved?
1. Support Hospice Patients
- You can make a positive difference to our patients and their families at a very difficult time.
2. Support your company’s CSR goals
- Opportunity for employees to engage in a hour of down time and connection with their colleagues, as well as the feel-good factor of giving an hour of their salary to charity.
- Supporting worthy causes has proven to increase customer loyalty and enhance your brand values and awareness.
- Employee fundraising is a fantastic way to help to boost morale and team spirit. It can help with employee attraction, engagement and retention.
3. Impact
- The Impact of your support is measurable. We will provide each organisation with a tally of the number of hours donated, the total funds raised and number of hours of care delivered to hospice patients by your organisation.
- Get in the competitive spirit with other organisations through our website leaderboard which will show the percentage of employees who have donated in each organisation.
- As a national campaign, coordinated by Together For Hospice, it’s an opportunity to be part of a nationwide effort to support local hospices. Funds raised will be calculated for individual companies as well as nationally.
4. We’ve got you!
- We will support you every step of the way with a dedicated team in your chosen hospice.
