Company support

Company Support
Employee fundraising

The people FARM-Africa helps are hard-working farmers and herders who just want a chance to earn a decent living so that they can feed their families. While we work an eight-hour day using technology to make our jobs easier, an African farmer toils by hand from sunrise to sunset, often on an empty stomach.

Your company support can make a big difference. With the money you raise, we can give farmers the help, training and tools they need to make a decent living. So by supporting FARM-Africa at your place of work, you enable many rural Africans to build better lives.

How you can support us

Your company can lend us support in a variety of ways:

Cause related marketing: You may choose to support our work through your product sales as Clarence Court and St. Helen's Farm did in 2007. Research has shown that when price and quality are equal, 81% of consumers are likely to buy a product associated with a good cause.

Sponsor an expert: Many FARM-Africa staff are experts in agriculture, forestry, veterinary science and a host of other disciplines. Why not sponsor one of our members of staff in Africa? We'll send you regular updates on their work.

Business mentoring: Can your employees share business skills with FARM-Africa? Our staff in the UK and Africa benefit from training in business skills in areas such as IT, marketing and logistics. FARM-Africa's work is increasingly focused on value addition and helping farmers to access new markets. As a result, opportunities exist for employees with the right business skills to mentor and advise our staff in the UK and in Africa. Helping some of our projects to develop and run more commercially is an important step in ensuring project sustainability.

Gifts in kind: Can your organisation donate items as well as cash? FARM-Africa welcomes donations of end-of-line and surplus stock, as well as items we can use as raffle prizes or in auctions. If you would like to make a donation of this sort, please contact us beforehand to ensure that we can use it.

Fund a project: You could fund a project and receive regular updates on progress to share with all your staff.

There are so many ways to fundraise - from personal challenges to team efforts, events to sponsored activities.

Here are some ways you can raise money:

Get active - for example run, walk or climb for FARM-Africa
Set up payroll giving - you can do this directly with your employer
eBay - sell any items you no longer want or need and donate the proceed to us
Organise a fundraising event such as a race night, summer picnic or pub quiz for your colleagues and friends

We can provide advice on all of these, and plenty more! And if you have your own fundraising idea, then we want to hear about it and help you bring it to life.

Get in touch

We're always happy to discuss fundraising ideas or how your company can support our work. Please contact our Corporate Partnerships Manager, Susi Owusu. - 020 7400 0231.


Clarence Court Clarence Court is a company that produces free-range eggs. In 2007, Clarence Court decided to support FARM-Africa. This cause-related marketing added value to the product while making a real difference to African farmers. Sales Director Lisa Rowe: "Clarence Court has strong ethical values. So joining forces with FARM-Africa made complete sense. We chose to donate two pence per pack for a limited period, and called it Hen Aid. The initiative not only proved to be an excellent means of highlighting the good work that FARM-Africa does, but it also reiterated our brand's ethical credentials. We received fantastic feedback from some of our key suppliers including Harrods and Waitrose, as well as enormous support for the project from our staff and customers. It is wonderful to think that we have helped rural communities improve their well-being, realise their potential and build sustainable livelihoods on their land."

Clarence Court

Clarence Court is a company that produces free-range eggs. In 2007, Clarence Court decided to support FARM-Africa. This cause-related marketing added value to the product while making a real difference to African farmers.

Sales Director Lisa Rowe: "Clarence Court has strong ethical values. So joining forces with FARM-Africa made complete sense.

We chose to donate two pence per pack for a limited period, and called it Hen Aid. The initiative not only proved to be an excellent means of highlighting the good work that FARM-Africa does, but it also reiterated our brand's ethical credentials.

We received fantastic feedback from some of our key suppliers including Harrods and Waitrose, as well as enormous support for the project from our staff and customers. It is wonderful to think that we have helped rural communities improve their well-being, realise their potential and build sustainable livelihoods on their land."


£15 could help to train a farmer in Tanzania to harvest honey from forest bees. Giving them good quality honey to sell. £30 pays for training and mentoring in water and soil conservation to improve crop yields. £200 could help a farmers’ group in Ethiopia to buy oxen and a plough to cultivate their land. £400 could train people on how to find and access water under the arid soil. £5000 could allow us to set up training and demonstration plots in Kenya, giving more people the opportunity to grow enough vegetables to feed their families and fodder to feed their livestock.

£15 could help to train a farmer in Tanzania to harvest honey from forest bees. Giving them good quality honey to sell.

£30 pays for training and mentoring in water and soil conservation to improve crop yields.

£200 could help a farmers’ group in Ethiopia to buy oxen and a plough to cultivate their land.

£400 could train people on how to find and access water under the arid soil.

£5000 could allow us to set up training and demonstration plots in Kenya, giving more people the opportunity to grow enough vegetables to feed their families and fodder to feed their livestock.