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Leadership: Working with retailers

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Charities can extend their reach by forming strategic partnerships with carefully selected retailers, generating vital extra funds and opening up opportunities for relationships that drive social change.
Vivien Waterfield is deputy chief executive at Home-Start UK. Picture: Home-Start UK
Vivien Waterfield is deputy chief executive at Home-Start UK. Picture: Home-Start UK

Retail partnerships play a crucial role in enabling charities like Home-Start UK to provide support to families. Such partnerships align with a retailer’s strategic objectives but also make a real difference to families and communities.

In an ongoing cost-of-living crisis, retail partnerships provide a way for charities to reach a retailer’s large customer base and help create real social impact by raising vital funds, creating awareness, and offering other support opportunities like volunteering.

1. Find a good fit. Seek out a retailer whose values and business model feel like a natural fit with your organisation. Ask yourself: “Does a partnership make sense from a customer point of view, and does it feel authentic?”

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