Support Through Your Company

Companies can make a huge contribution to the work of FARM-Africa through:

• Corporate partnerships such as on-pack promotions

• Corporate contributions

• Charity of the Year schemes

• Employee involvement

The Inland Revenue has a really helpful leaflet explaining how your company can get tax relief on gifts to charity made in all these ways, whether you are an employer or employee.

Further information

As an employee

Raising money for FARM-Africa’s work can be a personal challenge, or you can involve your colleagues by entering a team in one of our events:

Run a 10K, Half-Marathon, or Marathon and raise sponsorship for FARM-Africa. We provide lots of advice on training, encouragement on the day, and an after-party!

As a company

Companies can choose to support FARM-Africa’s work in general or a specific project in a particular country.

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. A partnership with FARM-Africa could add value to your product while making a real difference to the lives of African farmers.

Lisa Rowe, Sales Director, Clarence Court said:

“Clarence Court has strong ethical values, so joining forces with FARM-Africa which helps raise money for marginal chicken farmers and pastoral communities in eastern and South Africa, made complete sense. 

 We chose to donate 2 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 also reiterate 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.”

	“I joined a FARM-Africa project in 2004 and received two goats. Soon they became five. I have also taken three loans from my Women’s Group. The first loan was for 400 birr (£23). I used the loan to rent some land and grow potatoes and haricot beans to sell. I made a profit and bought a calf. Sadly, at this time my old house was damaged in a fire. Luckily I was able to take a further loan of 500 birr (£30) and we were able to pay for a better house than we had before. I carried on trading potatoes and was able to save some money and pay back my loan. I now trade wheat, haricot beans and peas as well. With the profit I bought an ox recently and I have repayed my third loan. My calf has become two cows and one calf! We get milk from the cows and the goats. I will make sure that all my children get an education. I have received information about family planning and that’s it now, no more children. My husband and I work together and help each other. We have a big house, full of animals and we are all happier and healthier.”

£1,000 could help 10 very poor rural women in Ethiopia to establish enterprises that provide regular income. FARM-Africa starts by building the women’s assets through dairy goat groups. Then, we support the groups in establishing Savings and Credit Cooperatives which give members access to credit and enable them to develop activities that bring in regular income. The project also helps these women to make the most of the opportunity through essential literacy and numeracy training.

£5,000 could train two teachers and provide the seeds, tools and small livestock to establish one working school farm in northern Tanzania. Pupils, the farmers and herders of the future, use the school farm to gain skills and knowledge that will enable them to improve agricultural production beyond subsistence production.

£20,000  could provide the goats that will enable 1,000 very poor farmers in Kenya to establish productive improved dairy goat herds and move out of poverty. Farmers in another project area in Kenya have increased their income from around £46 a year to £498 a year through our dairy goat programme.

£50,000 could provide training and project inputs to help households in Southern Sudan re-establish their lives after more than 20 years of civil war. The project is providing: new and improved varieties of seeds and seedlings; agricultural tools and technical training; and small livestock. It is also establishing clean water points and grassroots animal healthcare services. As a result families will build sustainable livelihoods from agricultural production and will not have to depend on handouts of aid to survive.

If you would like to support FARM-Africa, please contact our Corporate Partnerships Manager, Tum Kazunga.
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