Partner your company with us
It is estimated that one in every 400 people in the UK are diagnosed with MS with many more affected. The chances are it impacts your customers, colleagues and other people you work with daily.
As with many long term conditions, this might not always be talked about, but the likelihood is that someone in your professional circle could be facing these challenges on a daily basis. Every year businesses make a real tangible difference to the support available for our MS community – can you help us make a difference?
Why support us?
Here at the Berkshire MS Therapy Centre, our work is focused on improving the lives of those living with MS, offering treatments and support that make a real difference to the everyday lives of our members and their families.
As an independent local charity that receives no NHS or national MS funding, we rely on fundraising and donations to raise the nearly £650,000 a year to keep our doors open and continue to make a real difference to the lives of people within the community.
What are the benefits?
By supporting BMSTC you are joining the growing network of businesses and organisations actively demonstrating their corporate responsibility and becoming strong figures within their community.
You are helping to bring your staff together behind a unifying cause, boosting morale and sense of inclusion as well as demonstrating your values to your current and potential customer base.
We always make sure we say a big thank you to our supporters, with mentions on our social media channels, logos and links on our supporter page and list of thank yous in one of our quarterly newsletters – helping to increase awareness.
Not only do we support over 430 local people every year, but we are privileged enough have a strong community of devoted supporters with ties and links to the work of the Centre.
We make sure to thank all of our corporate supporters on our website, social channels and our newsletter.
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Supporting us can also help you.
Many of our current supporters may help us because of a personal connection to MS and the work that we do – this can also go beyond a personal link. Your support is vital to us a charity, but it also has a positive impact on your business.
Supporting a local charity can really impact on the morale of your team – making them feel part of a greater community, have a sense of pride in what they contribute and help them to really make a difference. This can have a positive impact on how they view the organisation they work for.
Recent research by the Matthew Good Foundation suggests that over half of UK employees (54%) say working for a company that supports charities increases their pride in their job. A similar number (51%) say it increases their loyalty to the company, rising to 63% among 16 to 24 year olds. A further YouGov study found that 47% say it makes them more willing to go the extra mile at work (UK Fundraising).
We would love for you to become one of our partners and work with us to make a real difference to the lives of those living with MS, supporting our mission whilst benefiting your organisation.
Have a look below for some of the ways we can work together. For more information email freia@bmstc.org
Some of the ways we can work together

Challenge your team
Perfect for team building, can you hold a sponsored challenge for your team?

Hold a team event
Could you host a dress down (or dress up!) day? Raffle an extra day of leave? Hold a coffee morning to boost morale?

Collection tin
Hosting a collection tin is a very simple and very effective way to support the Centre and get the local community involved.

Charity of the year
Many companies choose to support a selected charity – what better way help raise funds for the Centre and awareness about MS? If your workplace has staff nominations, then consider nominating us.

Donation
A financial donation will help provide support for the local MS community.

Sponsorship
Sponsorship can be a great way to get your name out there. We have different opportunities whether it is an area of our work or one of our great events.

Gifts in Kind
Not all donations involve money! Your company can support the Centre in many ways by donating goods and services including prizes for raffles, stationery, printing, marketing advice or even milk! We would be very grateful for your gift.

Join one of our events
Whether you enter a corporate team into the Reading Half Marathon or entertain your important customers at the Winter Ball, we have some great events for you to get involved in.

Run an awareness day
Most people are diagnosed with MS while they are working age. There is a lot of misunderstanding about MS and an awareness event is a great way to get involved.
