Business Partner Scheme

What is the Business Partner Scheme?

Many businesses want to put something back into the communities they serve through some form of charitable donation. Rotary Clubs have a high profile, respected role in their communities and have established links with groups in need of support.

Our Business Partner Scheme provides a straightforward and effective opportunity for businesses like yours to directly contribute to the projects Rotary supports. You will have the opportunity to direct your contribution to a specific project or to a range. We can also discuss any particular area you may wish to develop with us.  Rotary is one of the very few charities where all of the money raised goes to the causes we support.

What does it mean for you as a Business Partner?

It means that your business would be joining with Rotary in working with deprived communities and helping tackle inequalities. You could choose to focus support in the area your business is located or more widely.

In return for your financial support, the Club would provide publicity in a mutually agreed way.  Your business could participate in club meetings or even join the Club as individuals or through the Rotary Corporate Membership Scheme.

Who is Rotary?

Rotary International is a worldwide organization of 1.4 million people in over 36,000 clubs. Members are committed to taking action to make lasting change in communities locally and globally.  

For more than 110 years, we’ve bridged cultures and connected continents to champion peace, fight illiteracy and poverty, promote clean water and sanitation, and fight disease. In addition we now have an added focus of supporting the environment. You can find out more about Rotary International at: https://www.rotary.org 

What is the Rotary e-Club South West Peninsula?

Our new Rotary Club is different from many traditional clubs.  As an e-Club and as the name implies, we operate online. We use Zoom for most of our meetings, although we do meet up occasionally and use apps to communicate on projects. 

Formed in June 2020, members are mostly based in the South West of England.  Our local area of operation covers Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, although as an e-Club we do have access to the whole world.  We have joined fellow Rotarians in various parts of the world to participate in conferences, listen to presentations and to directly communicate with those we support.

Many Rotary Clubs have business partnerships, but we believe that our e-Club offers a much more flexible basis for working with businesses and a broader reach.

What do we do?

Our main objective is to make a lasting difference locally, in the UK and across the world.  Like all Rotary clubs we do this by raising funds and getting involved directly in projects, or sometimes by encouraging members and others to contribute directly through the wide range of opportunities on the internet.

Through a needs based approach and by working with Rotarians in the areas involved we have already supported charitable groups in the local community such as Motor Neurone Disease, Kidney Research, Feed a Family Plymouth, Toilet Twinning, the Chestnut Appeal Men’s Health Charity, the Farming Community Network and supported many community groups to raise their own funds through the Devon and Cornwall Rotary Community Raffle. https://dcrcr.org.uk

Nationally, we have supported the Children’s Air Ambulance and contributed to the floods disaster fund. Internationally, we have lent funds to entrepreneurs in the developing world through Lend with Care, supported health & educational projects through Life for African Mothers and Gambian Projects and we support The Rotary Foundation charity  https://www.rotary.org/en/about-rotary/rotary-foundation and End Polio Now! https://www.endpolio.org campaign to eradicate the disease.  Most recently we have supported Shelterbox and directly helped people in and from Ukraine.

In addition, we proactively support and help hands-on activities such beach cleaning, litter picking, environmental projects and support other groups raising funds for charities, by for example, providing marshalls at events.

How do we fund our activities?

As members we pay subs to cover club running costs.  We have used online fundraising opportunities such as Just Giving, Easy Fundraising, a virtual balloon race and social media. We intend to develop this much further.  We have also used more traditional fundraising approaches including, raffles, making and selling face masks and appeals for donations. 

What next?

If you are interested in discussing how you can be part of our Business Partner Scheme, please get in touch for a no obligation conversation.