Corporate Social Responsibility

If your business is looking for ways to enhance your local community through the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) business model, we can help you integrate social goals into your core operations. 

Work with us to help your business act ethically, sustainably and accountably, so your operational activities yield a positive impact on your local community and wider society beyond just maximising profits.

How can businesses help? 

There are lots of ways we can work together to give children and young people the best start in life. We’re not looking for your support for our statutory services as these are confidential and have to follow strict processes and legal regulations.

However, we can work with you in many other ways.

Non-statutory services

When delivered effectively, our non-statutory services can prevent young people from crossing the threshold into statutory children’s social care.

It doesn’t involve money

Essentially, we invite you to join with us in a ‘value exchange’, which doesn’t always mean parting with money!

Delivering some added extras can make a huge difference and prevent children and young people from entering into costly children’s social care or into the criminal justice system.

How does it benefit the community?

Think of it as investing in our future generation, bringing creative and forward-thinking ways to elevate children and young people’s life chances and assist them to become productive members of the community.

There are many ways you could help and the ideas below show you what you could do, but we’re always open to new ideas and opportunities.

Examples

Children going into care

We’ve had local businesses donate items for our ‘First Night in Care’ bags which we give to children and young people who may be entering care for the first time. The bags contain practical things like a toothbrush and shower gel, plus comforting things like teddies and books.

A quilt is a hug you can keep

A volunteer-run, non-profit organisation provides handmade quilts as an extra layer of security, warmth and comfort to children who are sick, disabled, disadvantaged or distressed. These are also added to our First Night in Care bags. 

Freshening up the space

A local Reading property investor and developer in the specialist care and education sectors visited one of our children’s homes for a community day. They rolled up their sleeves and got stuck in refreshing communal areas, corridors and bedrooms with a fresh coat of paint, making the spaces inviting and homely for the children staying there. The materials were provided by a local trade firm and a local architect designed and produced a tree mural stencil for one of the walls.

Reading’s Economy and Destination Agency (REDA)

The Reading Business Improvement District has worked with us on several occasions to coordinate a summer donation drive to gather practical items to distribute to specific groups of children and families across Reading who need extra support. You can read about the 2025 donation drive here: Supporting Local Youth: Reading’s Summer Donation Drive Returns

Get in touch

Email us if you want to help us make a difference.