Hollybank work with a range of businesses, organisations and individuals to develop partnerships to provide additional funds or initiatives for our children, young people and adults.
All the money we receive from our supporters goes directly towards improving our on-site facilities or additional activities such as our hydrotherapy and rebound centre – and provides our children, young people and adults with tools and equipment specifically designed to give them more independence and make their lives a little easier.
Here at Hollybank, we have several very successful partnerships with local companies across Yorkshire and some national companies too.
Working with local and national businesses and organisations really helps us spread the message about what we do far and wide and raise awareness about the important work we do with children, young people, and adults with profound disabilities.
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We are always thankful when other organisations choose to partner with us. Not only does it help raise awareness of what we do, it also raises much needed funds for our children, young people, and adults.
Adopting a Charity of the Year is an effective way for businesses, organisations, or local community groups to focus their approach to charitable giving and actively involve employees or members of their group, whilst helping a charity to achieve greater financial security and enhanced community support.
“This partnership with Accu is a very exciting opportunity for the Trust. We are so grateful of the support Accu is offering in our fundraising efforts and through the volunteering taking place. Hollybank stands to learn lots from Accu due to their expertise in engineering which will assist us on a digital transformation journey.”
Anna O’Mahony, Chief executive at Hollybank trust
Hollybank Trust is thrilled to announce that Accu has chosen the Trust as their Charity of the Year, an initiative that sees business support individual charities by highlighting the work they do and helping to raise funds for them.
This new partnership will see Accu play an active role in volunteering activities at the Trust, such as putting on their gardening gloves to help with the upkeep of the gardens and fostering new connections with pupils at Hollybank School, which will help them to practice and improve their social skills. A group of team members from Accu also attended the Trust’s annual Celebration Day on 9th July, an annual event that invites care teams and internal staff at the charity, parents of residents at Hollybank, charity partners, and supporters to a day of music, games, and refreshments at the main site of the charity in Mirfield.
Team members from Accu and Hollybank Trust will also prompt open-ended conversations with one another, sharing their own knowledge and best practice on internal wellbeing initiatives, how to implement and uphold internal values, and how they can work ‘better together’, which is central to all Hollybank Trust partnerships.
Accu will benefit from disability awareness training and time spent in Hollybank homes, gaining first-hand experience of the ways in which different disabilities affect people. This enhanced understanding and deeper insight will be gained through Accu team members attending activity days with young people and adults at Hollybank Trust, and through older pupils from Hollybank School who are looking to gain work experience attending invaluable work experience days at Accu.
There are plans for the Assistive Technology team at Hollybank Trust to attend engineering workshops at Accu, which comes at a pivotal time for Hollybank Trust as they have undergone a significant digital transformation within Hollybank over the last decade.
The charity has introduced new assistive technology which has streamlined the ways in which staff communicate with residents to understand their likes, dislikes, wants and needs.
Residents now have access to communication devices and communication buttons to ensure their voice is heard.
In alignment with the theme of ‘technology through the decades’ at Hollybank, Accu designed a specially adapted remote control car activity for everyone to enjoy at our annual Celebration Day.
On the day, Accu learnt more about the history of the charity, met residents and staff from across all areas of Trust, and got creative with through the decades themed fancy dress costumes to commemorate 70 years of the Trust so far.
As well as establishing new partnerships, we also continue to work hard to maintain long-standing ones.
In a relationship spanning nearly 12 years the Abbey Runners have raised funds to the sum of approximately £30,000 through an annual run in Leeds called the Eccup 10.
The start of this partnership was built through a former Trustee and the race and donations have gone from strength to strength. A proportion of the proceeds from the race each year are kindly given as a donation to Hollybank. This is used to support general trust wide activities and celebration events for the benefit of the children, young people, and adults.
We have had a relationship with the Huddersfield Town foundation for nearly 15 years with the overall value of the partnership totalling nearly £57,000.
We were a previous Charity of the year of theirs in 2018 and their fundraising during that year from the Pedals for Pound activity was used towards our new, fully adapted kitchen now placed within the Elms centre.
As well as working with us on key projects, they also kindly support us with the issuing of season cards for match days for our children young people and adults and also with match ticket offers for all of our staff to take advantage of.
Hollybank Trust is a registered Charity: 1043129