CONTENT RESOURCE
Go All In this festive season
In the UK, the end of the year is a time when employees, communities and companies come together to make a difference. For businesses, it’s an opportunity to show purpose in action, strengthen employee engagement and connect with local communities in meaningful ways.
And Benevity is right there by your side! Use our Activation Kit to spark action across your organisation — whether that’s donating, volunteering or spreading the word.
Scroll down for templates and best practices to jump-start your campaign planning.
And Benevity is right there by your side! Use our Activation Kit to spark action across your organisation — whether that’s donating, volunteering or spreading the word.
Scroll down for templates and best practices to jump-start your campaign planning.
CONTENT RESOURCE
Ideas to engage your employees and drive impact this festive season
'Tis the season where people want to come together and give back. Here are some ideas of how to keep up momentum and drive impact.
In-office activities
Host a toy appeal
Partner with a non-profit to collect popular gifts or children’s wish-list items.
Donate warm winter clothing
Gather coats, scarves and gloves for charities like Shelter or Centrepoint. Add a personal touch with uplifting notes.
Organise a charity market
Invite local nonprofits (e.g. Macmillan Cancer Support, British Red Cross) to sell crafts or baked goods in your office.
Stock a food bank pantry
Coordinate with charities like Trussell Trust or FareShare to collect non-perishable food, toiletries and essentials for families in need.
Fundraising event ideas
Craft and DIY fair
Invite your crafty colleagues to bring in their creations and sell them for donations to their favourite charities. You might even find nonprofits sharing instructions for projects, like the Brooke animal welfare nonprofit sharing patterns for crochet donkeys. To make it a fundraiser, ask participants to donate to a charity of your choice to enter the event.
Preloved gift swap
Say no to crowded shops and long lines and organise a gift swap event instead! Invite your colleagues to bring in pre-loved items that will make a fine gift for someone else. Ask participants to donate to charity to join in.
Bake sales and competitions
Gather all passionate bakers in your teams for a bake sale and donate the profits to a nonprofit of your choice. Or make it a competition and have the winning baker choose the organisation to receive the donation.
In-person volunteering
.webp)
Community clean-ups
Organise team volunteering days in local parks or community spaces, connecting environmental care with this festive season.
Spend time with seniors
Partner with Age UK to host tea parties, games or simply friendly chats with older adults experiencing loneliness.
Support at a food bank or soup kitchen
Join Trussell Trust food banks or Crisis holiday centres to distribute meals and essentials.
Remote and virtual volunteering
Write cheerful and encouraging holiday cards
Spread some festive cheer and inspiring words with a holiday card, for example, for kids in hospitals, seniors in homes, and people facing loneliness.
Record audiobooks for kids
Audiobooks can foster a love of storytelling, help us understand our emotions, improve communication and simply provide comfort and entertainment. Record free audiobooks for nonprofits working with children or people experiencing loneliness to make more stories available to everyone.
Virtual in-kind donations and nonprofit online stores
Many nonprofits have online wishlists to help them stock their pantry or they offer items for you to buy for yourself while supporting their cause, e.g., branded
t-shirts, mugs and other items that make great gifts. Invite your colleagues to a virtual meeting presenting some of these nonprofits and then give them some time on the call to browse their websites.
t-shirts, mugs and other items that make great gifts. Invite your colleagues to a virtual meeting presenting some of these nonprofits and then give them some time on the call to browse their websites.
Volunteer Acts of Kindness
Encourage small acts with a big impact
Little acts of kindness add up to a movement of community and compassion. Encourage everyone to do and share one act of kindness, for example, buying groceries for a senior neighbour or busy parent, inviting someone you haven’t spoken to in a while for a coffee or promoting a nonprofit in your social networks.
