Creating impactful partnerships

We’ve worked with GSK since 2013, combining our expertise to ensure no child suffers from a vaccine preventable disease and every child’s health is protected. Our current 5-year programme in Ethiopia and Nigeria aims to increase child vaccination rates and thereby reduce the number of ‘zero dose’ children – those who have never had a vaccination. We are working with communities, government and local and global partners, to make sure children are protected, healthy and thriving.

GSK is committed to making sure everyone can access healthcare.  Our success in partnership is made possible because GSK share their expertise with Save the Children, so we can tackle barriers to healthcare faced by children and their families around the world.

GSK employees all over the world help to power this partnership by volunteering and raising funds for Save the Children. Since 2013, GSK employees have raised nearly £6.2 million for Save the Children’s emergency responses, and to support our long-term work in 51 countries. Every penny raised has been matched by GSK, helping thousands of children access life-saving healthcare – no matter where they happen to have been born. That’s a legacy GSK can be truly proud of. 

For over a decade, Prudence Foundation and Save the Children have worked in partnership to develop and deliver pioneering programmes to increase children’s and communities’ resilience to emergencies.

In 2018, we formed a multistakeholder partnership with the Philippines Department of Education.  Our aim was to develop a sustainable and scalable model that could eventually be rolled out to protect all 47,000 schools across the country from the impacts of all hazards and disasters, including the impact of the climate crisis. 

Located along the Pacific ‘ring of fire’, The Philippines is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world. In partnership with the Department of Education, we’ve developed and launched a national Disaster Risk Reduction Management Information System, including 3 digital apps, allowing us to capture real-time data on a national scale after an emergency. This is helping the government to improve how they can better plan for school safety in natural disasters and build back stronger.

We developed training for Department of Education officials, and teachers in risk reduction, resilience and school safety. We also developed child-led disaster resilience training and a hazard-spotting app (SWApp), which has increased children’s awareness and knowledge of how to respond in an emergency and how to spot hazards in school.

This model (based on the CSS Framework) and the  innovative tools developed could be adapted and scaled globally to help governments around the world to keep schools safe during disasters. With Prudence Foundation, and global education partners, we’re advocating for the model to be adopted around the world. 

The Arsenal foundation and Save the Children teamed up in 2011, united by the idea of a partnership that could improve the lives of a thousand children and young people growing up in some of the world's toughest places. The goal was clear – help children get the support they need to rebuild their lives and coach them to a better future. As we look back at our achievements more than a decade later, we have much to be proud of.

We’ve worked as one team to support thousands of children around the world raising more than £4.6 million including generous donations from player and fans.  We’ve partnered on education projects in China and Indonesia, as well as building 16 football pitches across Jordan, Iraq, Somalia and Indonesia, giving children who’ve fled conflict a safe place to play freely. The Arsenal Foundation has stood in solidarity with children across the globe in times of crisis by generously donating to a number of Save the Children’s emergency responses. We’ve worked to make our unique coaching model and resilience programme ‘Coaching for Life’ a remarkable success. Through this project, we’ve helped children who’ve gown up in the most difficult of circumstances feel part of something bigger. A community with its roots in North London, that brings hope for a brighter future.

Together, we’re harnessing the power of football to change children's lives for good.

“The standard and level of partnership has always been at a consistently high level with a deep understanding of each other's values and objectives.

Save the Children listens to our challenges and tries to work with us to achieve solutions so we can continue to work in partnership.”

Maireed King

Director The Arsenal Foundation