We all have a responsibility to the communities in which we live and work, to have a social conscience about how our decisions and actions impact others. On an individual level, a desire to help, support and give to our communities, rather than always just taking from it, commonly referred to as “Giving Something Back”.
Companies, big or small, are also socially accountable to not only every stakeholder in their business but beyond, to the wider community. This is known as having Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
What Is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)?
You might be asking ‘So what is CSR? Put simply, it is the business model that is adopted by companies, no matter the size, to accept responsibility and be accountable for the impact their business has, in a social, environmental and economic way, on society as a whole. Having intention is great, but businesses need to actively demonstrate the ways in which they are practising CSR, to show integrity, gain trust in the public and meet their community obligations.
So How Can a Company Demonstrate Its Commitment to CSR?
Amongst the many ways in which a business or company can show its commitment to CSR, one is very relevant to us and that is to support a local charity. This is hugely rewarding for all involved, especially the employees and of course our service users. At The Lighthouse Centre, we would love to help your company meet its CSR obligations and have many ways in which this could happen. Your business could:
- Make The Lighthouse Centre your ‘Charity of the Year’, holding sponsored fundraising events in our name.
- Raise our profile in the local community by promoting our work and charitable aims on your website and social media pages.
- Volunteer for us – we would LOVE to have your help and many hands make light work!
- Make a one-off donation to us.
- Donate a percentage of your profits, to help us to be able to continue to provide much-needed palliative care and therapies to those with cancer or other long-term illnesses.
Corporate Social Responsibility
By helping and supporting us, your business not only demonstrates a real commitment to supporting those in the community but can actually see the real, long term effects of just how much that support means to our patients and everyone involved in the work of The Lighthouse Centre. Supporting a charity isn’t all one-sided either, employees engaged in community or charitable works often benefit from morale boost and team bonding. Who doesn’t like to feel good about what they do!
If you feel your business could support our wonderful charity, we would love to hear from you. Please feel free to get in touch with us in the way in which you feel most comfortable. No matter how you reach out, we WILL get back to you.
We have a contact form on our website for you to leave your details so we can contact you back.
You can call us on 01604 261400.
Or write to us at The Lighthouse Centre, 33 Burlington Offices, Wellingborough Road
Northampton. NN1 4EU.
We are also available by email at [email protected].
You can also find us across the social media sites: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Instagram pages too.
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