Corporate Support

How Your Company Can Support Doorway

There are a number of ways in which we can work together with our corporate supporters to increase public awareness of the issues surrounding homelessness, and to ensure that Doorway continues to provide a drop-in centre for homeless and marginalised adults in North Wiltshire.

Recycling

Recycling your used inkjet, laser printer cartridges and mobile phones through Doorway will help us to secure the drop-in's financial future at no cost to yourselves. Through our partnership with Recycling Appeal we could earn £1 for every used printer cartridge and up to £25 for every used mobile phone donated on our behalf. › Recycling Appeal website

Doorway can provide you with a box or envelopes in which to collect goods. You can then choose the method of collection that suits you: Doorway can arrange to collect; provide an address for delivery to our premises; or you can arrange a collection direct with Recycling Appeal by telephone.

Raising Awareness

Allowing us to display information about Doorway on your premises, or mentioning us in your staff magazine, would assist us in raising awareness of the service that we provide and the benefits to the whole community.

Doorway recently held a series of workshops for guests entitled "Pictures and Words" with local artist Julia Warin from ArtSpark and funded by the Anchor Trust and North Wiltshire District Council. The project aimed to help guests at Doorway explore and express their thoughts and feelings using photography, collage and creative writing.

The resulting exhibition, comprising 3 free-standing panels displaying individual artwork in CD cases, has toured around the libraries in North Wiltshire with very positive feedback and is now available for display on your premises.

Company Gift Aid

Not only would your donation go a long way in helping us but you may also qualify for a tax saving.

Gift Aid is a very simple and effective way for businesses to support charity. Gift aid provisions would enable you to obtain tax relief when you make donations to Doorway. The full amount of the donation is deducted from your company profits when calculating the corporation tax payable for the accounting period in which payments are made.

The amount of tax relief depends on the rate of corporation tax that your company profits are subject to. If your company receives a benefit from the gift, restrictions may apply to the amount of the gift that can be deducted in this way.

Please see the › Inland Revenue website for more information

Payroll Giving / Give As You Earn

Your employees can also help us. In the UK we annually donate almost £6 billion to charity. A recent National Opinion Poll survey shows that, each month, around two thirds of us give to charity.

Payroll Giving is a simple, tax effective way for your employees to make donations. Over 9,000 businesses already offer the benefits of Payroll Giving to around 5 million employees, and the numbers are growing.

Your employees may authorise you to deduct donations from their gross salary for forwarding to Doorway and we will receive tax relief in full on their donations.

In addition, some employers offer 'matched giving' schemes where they match or double the employee gift at no extra cost to the employee.

Please see the › Inland Revenue website or contact Doorway for more information on payroll giving

Company Gift Aid and Payroll Giving would provide Doorway with a reliable and sustainable funding source which would enable us to plan for the future; develop our services; run more Arts, IT and music workshops; raise our profile in the community and reach out to the whole of North Wiltshire.

Use everyclick.com as your internet search engine

Search

Doorway is now listed on www.everyclick.com, the search engine that helps charities. Using everyclick.com as your search engine does not cost you or the charity any money, but every time you use it for a search you raise money for Doorway.

This is a great new way to support your chosen charity as part of your CSR campaign - something everyone can do at no cost but knowing they are raising money for charity.

Please register as a corporate supporter of Doorway Project, just go to: http://www.everyclick.com/uk/myeveryclick/corpapplication?selectcharityid=279869

Then ask your staff to use everyclick.com as their search engine and every search they do will raise money for Doorway. When you sign up everyclick.com will provide you with a URL for your staff to use which automatically includes their searches in your corporate total. We would ask that you suggest they add this link to their favourite or make everyclick their homepage so that they can use the link every time they search.

We would also ask that you add your everyclick link to your website and email footers, that way you can spread the word, get more support for Doorway, and increase the contribution your company is making to the charity without any additional cost. Everyclick will send you all of the details as soon as you have signed up - there are no charges to you or us!