Corporate Support

Here at MFC Foundation we develop long lasting partnerships with companies across a wide range of industries, delivering clear business benefits for them and vital funds for our work in the community.

Our life-changing work wouldn’t be possible without the extraordinary generosity of our corporate partners who support us in a number of ways, including via programme sponsorship, donations, in-house fundraisers and adopting us as their charity of the year.

Ways to work together

We can tailor a mutually-beneficial partnership including any of the combinations below. There are plenty of ways to suit your organisation and objectives.

Charity of the Year

By choosing us as your charity of the year we can work together to build a bespoke calendar of engaging fundraising activities for your employees. Organise your own activities or take part in our fundraising campaigns like Middlesbrough 10K and Ali Brownlee 5K, there’s plenty on offer.

We’d love you to nominate MFC Foundation as charity of the year to your charity champions, senior managers and HR team.  If you’d like advice on how to do this, email our team and we can help.

Sponsorship

We have several high-profile events and campaigns, like the Great North Run, so there’s plenty of opportunity to shape sponsorship packages for a specific part of our work.

Cause Related Marketing

If your brand has a product or service that makes for a good fit with our cause, then a commercial agreement to donate a proportion of its profits to us could be a mutually beneficial partnership.

Payroll Giving

Payroll Giving is a great way for employees to make monthly donations to charity, straight from their salary, before tax is deducted. It’s easy for employers to set up and shows strong charitable support.

Strategic Partnerships

If your CSR strategy is aligned to what we do, there could be exciting opportunity to offer pro bono services, share skills or work together at a more strategic level. This could be about changing public behaviour or truly transforming the lives of people from all walks of life across Teesside. Speak to us if you think there is shared synergy in our core purposes that means we should look to team up.

Get in touch

Want to know more about becoming a corporate partner? Call our Fundraising Team on 01642 757676 or email enquiries@mfcfoundation.co.uk

We want to say a huge thank you to our corporate partners for all of their support in the past year.

Corporate Supporters

Young People Inspired To Talk About Mental Health

Students from several Middlesbrough Football Club Foundation’s partner secondary schools participated in The Premier League Inspires Challenge 2023/24 during which they were tasked with creating a mentally healthy environment for the club, fans, partners and players.

Working alongside Foundation staff during their Premier League Inspires sessions in school over the past half term, the youngsters produced a range of social action projects, whilst also supporting the Premier League’s Inside Matters mental health campaign.

The message was simple, to remind everyone that it is okay not to be okay and of the importance of keeping up conversations on mental health.

Coming together at the Riverside, students from Grangefield Academy, North Shore Academy, Outwood Academy Acklam, Outwood Academy Bishopsgarth and Outwood Academy Normanby presented to a panel of judges made up of representatives from Middlesbrough Football Club, Middlesbrough Football Club Foundation and Teesside MIND.

Outwood Academy Acklam were the overall winners with their idea of a Mental Health Awareness Pocket Guide that anyone can use, including professional footballers. They will now represent Middlesbrough FC at the Premier League Inspires Challenge national final on Thursday April 25th at the Emirates Stadium, home to Arsenal FC, alongside the other 44 Premier League Inspires Club Community Organisations.

The groups who did not progress to the national event will continue to develop their ideas with the support of the Boro and the Foundation.