Are YOU a business or organisation seeking to support our work...or considering the benefits of partnership working...?


A hall mark of our work is partnership with:

* Grant making trusts
* statutory agencies who
Make grants | Refer clients to us | Contract with us
* business partners who offer us
Funds, Materials | Time & expertise | Discounts | Contacts | Sub-contracts | Work placements
* Schools, Special Schools, Colleges
* Other Charities - we dont compete, we complement - finding areas of mutual benefit or synergy - to support our client groups more effectively
* The Press - The Kent & Sussex Courier - but also Sevenoaks Chronicle, KMFM, BBC Radio Kent and BBC1 TV and TV production companies..

We seek to expand our links with business, schools & colleges - at local, county, regional & national level.

We collaborate or partner with other organisations, including all YMCAs working in Kent & Medway - and many other organisations.

>> MUTUAL BENEFIT

>> How can West Kent YMCA help YOU?

* Diversify YOUR work force AND YOUR customer base by offering our trainees & residents work experience, part-time / full time jobs
* Tax efficient donations from YOUR year end gross profit
* Achieve & develop YOUR Corporate Social Responsibility [CSR] goals
* Achieve YOUR charitable objects
* Gain access for reasonable research needs [such as questionaires, focus groups] to so-called "hard to reach" young people & adult social services clients
* Engage with young people & vulnerable adults in a safe environment
* Gain positive PR for YOUR company from our holistic professional programmes
* Engage in employee volunteer programmes - which enhance sense of achievement, job satisfaction, improve team working & promote innovation.

>> How can YOU help us?

* Providing volunteers - 1 off, regular or groups [Like AXA-PPP do on a regular basis] to improve your staff motivation & team work and tackle a project to refurbish a flat or open a new training venue..
* Gaining positive PR for our client groups, their needs/issues, & our work
* Sponsor a project, worker or capital item
* Your business experience and contacts
* Offering work placements [typically 1 -4 weeks unpaid] for hand-picked trainees & residents - give them a chance to prove themselves - and your staff team will gain too!
* Offer project materials - paint, timber, IT, copiers, good tools
* Offer white goods items for our residents free or at discount
* Donate quality furniture, PCs, white goods, electrical goods to our Furniture Warehouse social enterprise

To discuss how we can work WITH YOU please contact head office to arrange for us to pay you a short visit or if you would like to visit us to meet our clients & dedicated staff <<< see contact us and maps

* Read our recent annual review [2 pages 700kb pdf] follow the link below >>

* If you are a potential funder - see FAQs for funders on the read more news link >>

>> West Kent YMCA Annual Review 2006 <<

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