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Corporate Challenge

The VRH Corporate Challenge is a new initiative that VRH is launching in February 2012!

We challenge a team of your employees to raise at least £10,000 for VRH in six months.  To raise this money, they will be required to develop skills in project management, budgeting, presenting, event planning, team building and PR.

VRH will provide your team members with an external business mentor, who will not only help them to complete the challenge but will provide invaluable skills that can be transferred into their working life.

 
 

How does the challenge work?
 

• You will need to recruit a team of between six and eight people to take on the challenge.  Recruits could be your rising stars/emerging leaders, your new graduate training intake or employees from different departments to encourage cross-departmental working

• Once your team is recruited, they will be immediately welcomed by our VRH Corporate Challenge Coordinator, who will be with them every step of the way to offer advice, support and encouragement.  They will be given a VRH Challenge pack containing fundraising ideas, materials and a guide to the challenge and they will also be introduced to their external mentor 

• Their external mentor will work with them to draw up their business plan on how they will generate the income and they will pitch their plan to a panel of ‘dragons’ – including VRH senior staff and champions within your own business

• Your team will be pitted against other businesses in London and the team that generates the most money will win a money-cannot-buy experience!!

• Each competing team will make an initial donation of £200 at the start of the Challenge.  This will be put into a ‘prize pot’ which presented to the team judged to give the best pitch as an initial boost towards their fundraising target!

 

Why should we take on the challenge?
 

• It offers FREE training and coaching for your employees
 
• Your staff will get the opportunity to develop skills in business planning, project management, event management, media relations and PR
 
• We’ll offer great networking opportunities through our  external mentors and at the VRH-organised Challenge events (launch and celebration event)
 
• You will get the opportunity to fulfill your CSR objectives (without a direct financial contribution)

• The challenge will boost staff morale!

• It is a fun event for all employees to get behind, not just the Challenge team!

• The Challenge provides excellent PR opportunities

• We will give you promotion through our website and social media channels

• The funds raised upon completion of the Challenge would provide one-to-one literacy support for 30 disadvantaged children

 

Timeframe

 

December 2011 – Companies to recruit their Challenge Teams.  We can provide support with this as needed and would be happy to come and present to your staff on the work of VRH and how the Challenge works
 
January 2012 – Teams to meet their mentor!  Also during December we will distribute the Challenge Guide and materials to competing teams
 
February onwards – The Challenge begins!! From this date teams have 6 months to raise at least £10,000 and compete to win the VRH Corporate Challenge
 
July 31st – End of Challenge!  All funds must be banked by this point to be counted towards the Challenge.
 
During January there will be a Challenge Launch event and during August there will be an end of Challenge event and the winning team will be announced and presented with their prize!
 
 
A maximum of 8 teams can take part in the VRH Corporate Challenge and places are filling fast so contact Liz Bennett today on liz [dot] bennett [at] vrh [dot] org [dot] uk or 020 7749 7972 to register your interest and find our more!