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We tackle homelessness by giving cash directly to those who need it most. Set up a monthly donation so we never run out of funding.
Corporate partnerships change lives forever
Your support could be vital in helping Greater Change support thousands of people out of homelessness for good.
Work with us
Our corporate partners provide vital financial and in-kind support for our clients and we need increased corporate support now more than ever. As a Corporate Funding Partner, you can make a real impact and be part of our special initiatives, pilot projects, and client campaigns to support Greater Change to grow its services more widely across the UK. The homelessness crisis is only getting worse and we need your support more than ever.
- Become a funding partner
Provide direct financial support to fund our core projects and individual client campaigns.
- Lunch and Learn sessions
Challenge employees' unconscious bias and perceptions of homelessness vs the truth ‘visual & hidden’. Listen to a short insight into the escalating housing crisis, and the effect homelessness or risk of homelessness has on mental health, which we are all touched by.
- Staff Fundraising
From nominating us as your Charity of the Year to organising internal fundraising events, there are lots of ways that you can help and every pound raised will help to change a life.
- Staff Volunteering
As a Corporate Partner to Greater Change, we want your staff to have an opportunity to volunteer and there are lots of ways to get involved. Whatever role you choose, you will make a real difference in the life of someone in need.
Please get in touch by emailing:
lauren@greaterchange.co.ukLauren Taylor, Growth Officer
Grant and Philanthropic Funders
Grant and philanthropic funders have been crucial in establishing Greater Change as the organisation it is today. Having started just five years ago, we have helped over 1300 people out of homelessness for good and partnered with a number of local authorities in London and the South East. Greater Change has proven that by giving people the dignity of choice, we have the means as a society to support people out of homelessness for good.
Yet with over 300,000 people who are homeless in the UK today, the problem and need for our solution is bigger than ever. COVID and the cost of living crisis have contributed to a major increase in homelessness in the past few years and the support services in place are increasingly stretched. Many are overwhelmed.
We are now at a critical stage of our growth. Over the next 10 years, Greater Change aims to scale our work across the United Kingdom and support a further 100,000 clients. This will not only give those in need a dignified way to move out of homelessness for good, it will also save local and central government over £1.5 billion in temporary accommodation costs.
We have an ambitious vision to fundamentally change the social safety net in the United Kingdom, so that people in deep poverty are given the dignity of choice and opportunity to change their situation. Our society currently spends £ billions failing to manage the problem. Through personalised budgets we can truly solve the problem, give people a real pathway out of homelessness and save £ billions in the process.
Greater Change cannot do this alone. If you are interested in partnering with us on this mission, please get in touch by emailing:
jonathan@greaterchange.co.ukJonathan Tan, Chief Executive Officer
When talking about the crisis of homelessness, it can be easy sometimes to forget that we are talking not just about statistics, but about the lives, the hopes, the dreams and the ambitions of countless individual people.
Greater Change’s approach makes such oversights impossible. It is a tried and tested way of connecting people who can and want to give, to people who need financial help. And it works.
At LandAid, we try to support initiatives that have an evidence base to them – it's one of the reasons we champion the End it with Evidence campaign – so we’re delighted to have partnered with Greater Change to provide funds for individual donations to young people facing homelessness. And thanks to Greater Change’s robust methodology, we’re confident that these funds will have an immediate, direct and powerful impact on the lives of the people we’re here to help.
For several years I have been interested in how direct cash transfers can help those struggling with the challenges of homelessness. I had many questions - who? how? when? impact? - and when I came across Greater Change, I found a committed group of people who had asked and answered these questions.
Greater Change reaches those in need through existing partner networks, so there’s no duplication of effort. They have shown that direct cash transfers can have a really positive impact on recipients' circumstances, and they’re committed to an evidence based approach that will ultimately help change perception and public policy.
Having looked at Greater Change’s operations, governance, plans and ambitions, I have made a significant donation to the Greater Change Foundation to help advance their work, to provide direct cash transfer funding, and to encourage other donations through matched funding.
Fundraising Ideas
One of our kind supporters arranged a sponsored skydive for a number of his friends. For every £ donated to their campaign, those participating agreed to match it.
A team in the office of one of our corporate partners arranged an office-wide cycling competition, in which they raised money from friends, family and colleagues based on the number of miles they cycled
A number of our supporters arranged a sponsored sleep out. They slept outside in the winter in just a sleeping bag for a night in order to both raise money for Greater Change and raise awareness about the dangerous conditions facing rough sleepers in winter.
Please get in touch by emailing:
lauren@greaterchange.co.uk Lauren Taylor, Growth Officer
Dale's Story
"Thank you so much for giving me deposit money for my room, it’s amazing not sleeping in a tent and feeling like life is worth living now, I get to have my son over as I have a lovely landlady who knows all about my past and is still giving me a chance! I have started a college course so hopefully will have a job soon after. Thank you again you have no idea how much this means to people like me in my situation. Thank you for giving me my dignity back and giving me a chance to live! Thank you again."
Vanda's Story
“Being homeless was a terrible time, I just remember feeling terrified.” Vanda managed to leave the streets but had a relapse which put her home at risk. However, Greater Change was able to pay off her rent arrears. “Now every time I come home, I say hello beautiful home, I am home! When I lock that door, I know that I’m safe.”
“Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!”
Natalie's Story
When Natalie started fundraising with Greater Change, she had finished rehab after several years of drug addiction. She needed money for further training to get back into paid employment and to ensure she could pay her housing bills. With our help, Natalie could get the training she needed to secure her job. With paid employment, Nathalie is no longer at risk of homelessness and has been able to successfully move on with life.