Help the Hospices

Our chosen charity partner is Help the Hospices, the leading charity supporting hospice care throughout the UK. Help the Hospices is a membership-based organisation, with over 200 member hospices in the UK providing care for children and adults with cancer and other life-limiting and terminal illnesses.

Our employees have shown overwhelming support for Help the Hospices since we launched the partnership in July 2009. The partnership is innovatively structured so that our support can benefit the work of Help the Hospices nationally, as well as supporting 25 hospices that are local to our offices. Any money that is raised by a branch is donated to their local hospice; whilst centralised fundraising and money donated by the company (e.g. for matching employee fundraising) goes to Help the Hospices.

In 2010 we raised £160,000 for Help the Hospices. This included a £1,000 donation to each of our local hospices to celebrate the first anniversary of our partnership. This takes the total fundraising since the launch of the partnership to £251,000.

In 2009 we stated that we wanted to give more than just money. So in 2010 we provided training and development courses for Help the Hospices staff and management. Personnel at Help the Hospices were identified and invited to join courses, which are usually delivered as part of Allianz’s Leadership and Development Programme, including:

• Developing Personal Power;
• Project Management;
• Speaking with Impact;
• Train the Trainer; and
• Coaching skills.

In addition, we delivered a bespoke “Personal Effectiveness” course for 12 delegates, with the help of a Chartered Management Institute associate who delivered the course, which was tailored to the needs of Help the Hospices.

Help the Hospices is not our only partnership. Divisions within our business support a number of other organisations; including the Prince’s Trust, Chance to Shine, Jubilee Sailing Trust and Touraid. Each partnership is designed to give the organisation financial support whilst giving our employees personal development and volunteering opportunities.