Save the Children UK : Companies and trusts

American Express

American Express and its customers have raised over £1.4 million for the Save the Children Alliance since 1996. Through their membership reward scheme, customers can donate their points to Save the Children, which are then exchanged for cash donations by American Express.

Astellas

Astellas Pharma Europe Ltd are committed to supporting our health programme in Liberia for two years. By providing vital transportation to help healthworkers reach rural communities, they are helping protect more than 35,000 children under the age of five from measles and other preventable childhood diseases.

Barclays

Since 2004 Barclays Bank PLC and its customers have raised more than £140,000 through the Barclays charity card and £250,000 through employee volunteering and cause-related marketing initiatives.

Best Western Hotels

Best Western Hotels Great Britain is supporting Save the Children’s Rewrite the Future campaign in an innovative partnership to re-launch their customer loyalty programme. Best Western Rewards members can spend their loyalty points on a range of donations to provide and improve education for children living in countries affected by conflict.

British Gas

The partnership between Save the Children and British Gas was launched in 2002 with the here to HELP initiative, a scheme designed to make one million homes in Britain warmer, safer and more comfortable. The company's significant corporate donation helps us fund over 300 youth projects to help vulnerable children living in areas identified by the government as being subject to 'fuel poverty'. The here to HELP Awards have had a positive impact on the lives of over 15,000 children and young people in the UK.

Bulgari

Bulgari, one of the global players on the luxury market, has committed to raise €10 million in 2009 for our Rewrite the Future campaign. The money will help children in war-torn countries to go to school.

Calypso

Calypso Soft Drinks Ltd has launched Thirst Aid bottled water in partnership with Save the Children. Calypso’s goal is to raise £50,000 to fund a Save the Children water project in the Sayint district of northern Ethiopia. Once this target has been reached the partnership will continue to fund other water projects around the world. It’s estimated that only 31% of households in Ethiopia have access to safe, clean water. When the project is complete, Thirst Aid will have given more than 5,600 people access to safe water, helping to greatly reduce childhood death and disease in the area.

Chocaid.com

Chocaid.com, a Fairtrade organic chocolate retailer that aims to generate funds for hunger relief projects, has developed a partnership with Save the Children. A proportion of the sale of its chocolate products will help us reduce child malnutrition in Ethiopia.

Citigroup

Citigroup has been supporting our work since 2000 through the International Financing Review Awards. The bank has donated over one million pounds, which has funded our work around the world, including helping vulnerable children and orphans who have lost family members to HIV and AIDS in South Africa.

Clifford Chance

Clifford Chance Foundation is supporting Save the Children through working together to provide children in India with a better future.

Chance for Children is a three year partnership helping 14,300 marginalised children to get an equal, pre-school and primary education of a good quality, in 26 government schools in the state of Delhi, India.

We're delighted to be working in partnership with Clifford Chance to create dramatic change and essential support for some of the world’s most vulnerable children.

FAIR INSTANT

FAIR INSTANT is a new high quality Fairtrade Instant coffee that guarantees growers a minimum price for their coffee and contributes to local social funds, giving coffee growers a better deal and helping them to invest for the future. FAIR INSTANT coffee and Save the Children have joined forces. 20p for every 100g jar and 50p for every 500g drum sold goes to supporting projects run by Save the Children that will improve children's education in Colombia. FAIR INSTANT coffee is available from major supermarkets across the UK.

First Group

First Group Plc is now the world's leading transport company transporting more than 2.5billion passengers a year. First have entered a two-year partnership with Save the Children worth more than £1,000,000 to support our work in England, Scotland and Wales helping children living in poverty

Hilton hotels

Between October and December, guests staying in Hilton hotels throughout the UK will have the option to donate £1 to Save the Children's work. The Small Change, Big Difference campaign aims to help children across the world who are caught up in emergencies.

IKEA

The IKEA soft toy campaign supports our vital education work in eight countries. With a total of £16.7 million raised so far globally, the campaign is one of the largest of its kind in the world.

Kingfisher

Kingfisher began supporting our work in China in 2006. The company is donating a minimum of £25,000 per annum over the next three years to finance the implementation of a youth-justice project and activity centre in the Jinxing district of Yunnan province.

Kraft Foods

Kraft Foods has supported our work in Côte d'Ivoire since 2004 as part of its global community outreach programme, Kraft Cares. To date, over £100,000 has been raised to help us reach, identify and help at-risk children and families in areas of the country affected by conflict.

Leeds Building Society

Open a Caring Saver account with Leeds Building Society and they'll make a yearly donation, equivalent to 1% of the average balance in all Caring Saver accounts, to a number of charities, including Save the Children. The scheme has already raised over £100,000 for Save the Children. Visit the Leeds Building Society website to find out more.

M&Co

M&Co, independent clothing company are partnering with Save the Children and are committed to raising more than £300,000 through cause related marketing activity. This relationship will fund work in Myanmar, saving the lives of the under fives and will also fund the implementation of two play busses to help the rehabilitation of children's lives devastated by the 2005 earthquake.

M&S

M&S and Save the Children joined forces to help 15,850 children in western Uganda benefit from a proper education. M&S raised £646,205 by donating 5% of the purchase price of school wear. This will pay for 54 new classrooms with desks and chairs, textbooks and teaching materials in 40 schools, improved toilet and washroom facilities in 5 schools, teacher training and construction of two houses for teachers.

NEXT flower power

In 2007, NEXT teamed up with Save the Children to support our Mothers' Day activities. For every 'wish' bouquet sold, £5 was donated to Save the Children, raising £30,000 to help children and mothers in Niger.

PricewaterhouseCoopers

PricewaterhouseCoopers supports our work through their Ulysses leadership development programme. In 2006, the company sent three highly skilled business experts to review our income-generation project in Yunnan province, south west China. PricewaterhouseCooper volunteers help improve our work in China.

Reckitt Benckiser

Reckitt Benckiser are our most valuable UK-based corporate supporter. We've been partners since 2003, and so far over £2.5million has been raised for children around the world. Their commitment to health and hygiene projects, and to the Children's Emergency Fund, has helped us to save thousands of young children's lives. Watch the video of their latest adventure: a trek in the Himalayas to raise vital funds.

Royal Bank of Scotland

Save the Children has received more than £1.3 million from the Royal Bank of Scotland. The bank raised the funds in a number of ways, including corporate donations, cause-related marketing initiatives and payroll giving. It also supports our annual International Financing Review event.

TAG Heuer

Swiss luxury watch brand TAG Heuer joined forces with Save the Children at the "Dream Machines Driven by Generous Hearts" in June 2007, at the Le Castellet F1 test track in the south of France. Racing legends and celebrities drove phenomenal GT. Photographs unveiled at this event are being published in a limited edition large-format book. All proceeds from the sale of this book will support Save the Children's recreational and sports projects around the world.

Tesco - Buy One, Give One Free

Throughout the 'Back to School' season Tesco is donating items of school uniforms to children in Kenya when their customers buy selected boys school trousers.

Thomson Reuters International Financing Review (IFR) Awards

The IFR Awards Gala Dinner is an annual ceremony traditionally attended by senior investment bankers and Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal. The Awards, which are organised by Thomson Reuters, have a long history of support for Save the Children. Thanks to the enormous generosity of the investment banking community and of Thomson Reuters, many children around the world have benefited.

Twinings

Over the last five years, we've joined forces with Twinings to help improve the lives of over half a million children in tea-growing communities in China. Twinings have donated £1m to date and has committed to working with us untill 2012 to improve both health and nutrition education and give access to health care for children and mothers in Shanghai and Yunnan.

Virgin Unite

Virgin helped us transport supplies to those in need after the Pakistan earthquake in October 2005. Virgin provided a free aid flight, which helped our teams rapidly provide vulnerable groups with food, water, clothing and materials for makeshift accommodation. Virgin Atlantic also provided a £94,191.91 donation for our Asian tsunami appeal.

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