The John Lewis Partnership had a corporate sponsorship scheme and we benefited from one of their staff coming to work with us for six months – and happily she stayed on afterwards! Does your company have a similar scheme?

Or perhaps your company would consider holding ‘dress down days’, allow us to hold lunch time merchandise sales or tombolas on their premises, donate services or items to raffle or even consider a secondment scheme?

Some shops, pubs and other retail outlets allow collection boxes for small change to be placed on their counters. Can you arrange this for us? We would be pleased to supply our collecting boxes as all the pennies soon add up to pounds.