From early in our journey of creating The Branch we have been very grateful for the support of local companies, from BrandCooke
helping us create our original marketing materials and website, Wild Thyme
cooking the meals that we delivered through Lockdown, and Wigwam
playing a crucial role in our social action work through the use of their vans to move furniture.
There was tremendous excitement when a locally managed team from Virgin o2 Mobile
offered to hold a 'tech' workshop at Connect cafe. The team worked their way around the room with immense patience, listening to visitors' conundrums with their phones and IT gadgets, working tech miracles. They set people up on new phones that we had been donated and helped others become confident to use Banking Apps. For one elderly person this was transformative as the local branch of his bank had closed and this meant he no longer had to get on a bus or sit in a long telephone queue to do his banking. Huge thanks
to Virgin o2 and we are thrilled that they will be coming back to run more.
Could your Company help transform lives?
Do you have a company who could partner with The Branch? There are corporate sponsorship packages from £50 through to £50,000
. Your company could supply all the equipment needed for one of our 10 mobile cookery stations - that way you could enable a young person like Adam to re-engage with education, learn new skills and unlock his potential. After weeks of refusing to attend school, last week he joined a Branch Out to Cook session and this boosted his confidence, and meant he had a good meal before agreeing to go into school for two more lessons that day.
If you or your company would like to support The Branch in this way, please get in touch to discuss sponsorship of a room or item
in the building
at campaign@thebranchtrust.org
.