Corporate Support
Why work with us?
By supporting Forest Holme Hospice you will help to ensure that everyone in the local community affected by a life-limiting illness or bereavement gets the care and support they need, either at home or in our dedicated hospice facility.
- support a much-loved local charity, making a direct impact on your local community
- motivate and empower your employees to make a difference
- receive practical support, advice and promotion in return for your efforts
The nature of our work means that we’re highly likely to have helped some of your employees, directly or indirectly. Local people really care about their Hospice, and our business partners find engagement is high within their teams when they choose to support us.
Our corporate partners support the Hospice in a wide variety of ways, from partnerships of a year or more to one-off events; sponsorship; volunteering; and fundraising through your own efforts or by joining our calendar of events and challenges.
Why partner with Forest Holme?
Supporting Forest Holme Hospice Charity is a great way for your business to make a positive difference in the local community, while bringing your colleagues together and demonstrating your commitment to a cause that matters to local people.
Whether you choose Forest Holme as your Charity of the Year, sponsor an event, take on a team challenge or support us in another way, we’ll work with you to create a partnership that works for your business.
Engage and inspire your team
Supporting a local charity can be a fantastic way to bring colleagues together. From fundraising activities and volunteering to team challenges and events, there are plenty of opportunities to get everyone involved, boost morale and have some fun along the way.
Make a difference locally
By supporting Forest Holme, your business will be helping to ensure that people across our local community can access specialist palliative and end-of-life care and support when they need it.
It’s a meaningful way to demonstrate your organisation’s commitment to the community in which your employees, customers and their families live and work.
Strengthen your social impact
A partnership with Forest Holme can form an important part of your organisation’s Corporate Social Responsibility activity, providing tangible ways for your business and employees to support a well-established local cause.
Raise your profile
We love celebrating the businesses that support Forest Holme. Depending on your partnership, there may be opportunities to share your involvement through our website, social media, newsletters, events and PR activity, helping demonstrate your commitment to supporting your local community.
Bring your customers with you
Your support doesn’t have to stop with your employees. Fundraising activities, events and campaigns can provide opportunities to involve customers, clients and suppliers too, helping you engage your wider network with a cause that has touched the lives of so many local families.
There are lots of ways to get involved
Every business is different, so we can work with you to find an approach that suits your organisation. You could:
- Choose Forest Holme as your Charity of the Year
- Sponsor one of our events or campaigns
- Enter a team into a challenge or fundraising event
- Organise your own workplace fundraising
- Offer match funding for money raised by employees
- Donate goods, services or expertise
- Support us through a corporate donation
- Encourage your customers and suppliers to get involved
Whether you’re a small local business or a larger organisation, your support can make a real difference.
Let’s work together
We’d love to hear more about your business and what you’d like to achieve from supporting Forest Holme. Our fundraising team can help you explore the different opportunities available and find a partnership that feels right for you, your colleagues and your customers.
Get in touch with our team to start the conversation.
Our corporate supporters

Ways to support Forest Holme
Meaningful charity partnerships are valuable to all involved and here are a few ways your business can support Forest Holme.
Collection Boxes
If you are planning a fundraiser or are a proprietor of a Retail Outlet, a Public House or a Business; and would like to show your support for Forest Holme Hospice Charity, please contact our office on 01202 670644 or email fundraising@forestholmehospice.org.uk
We can supply you with official Forest Holme Hospice Charity collection boxes, and any other marketing materials you may need.

Fundraising for Forest Holme at Work

Forest Holme Hospice Charity helps to enhance the lives of adults from across Poole, Wimborne and the Isle of Purbeck who are facing a life limiting or terminal illness. We need to raise £1 million each year and rely on the support of businesses across our local area to help make this happen.
Fundraising in your office or at work is a great way to bring together your team together and boost morale whilst raising money to support your local hospice. There are lots of ways you and your colleagues can raise money for Forest Holme Hospice Charity at work, and we are here to help you every step of the way.
Choose Forest Holme as your charity partner
A partnership with Forest Holme is a great way to unite your company while helping to raise awareness and funds to enhance the lives of patients and their families.
We will work closely with you to not only help meet your business and corporate social responsibility objectives but also help bring your staff together to support us and make a difference to our patients and their families at the most difficult time of their lives.
Employee fundraising
Raising money is lots of fun! There are lots of ways for colleagues to get involved in fundraising for Forest Holme.
A virtual team challenge – Run, walk, skip, hop, cycle, swim, roll or flip – get physical & get those endorphins pumping. You set the challenge; a goal according to your fitness level at a time that suits you.
Bake off – Throw an office bake off. Get your colleagues competing for the best cakes and biscuits, then sell the results.
Sweepstake – Organise a sweepstake with friends, family, and colleagues. You could choose a sporting event like the World Cup or Wimbledon or a TV show like Strictly Come Dancing or Eurovision. People pay to play and whoever picks the winner, wins a prize and you donate the money raised.
Run Bournemouth – Get a team together to take part in
Wing Walk or Skydive – Sponsor the boss to take part in a Wing Walk or skydive.
Jurassic Coast Challenge – Get together as a team for a physical challenge setting off from Poole and trekking 25km, 50km or 100km along the spectacular Jurassic Coast.
Matched funding – Don’t forget to ask your employer if they have a scheme in place to match the total donations that you raise for Forest Holme.
Gifts in Kind
As well as supporting us with donations and fundraising, we always appreciate donations of products and free services as these ensure that more funds can be allocated directly towards patient care.
If this is something that you could support with then please get in touch.
Sponsorship opportunities
We have several events taking place over the year that you could get involved in.
Sponsorship is a great way to show your commitment to our cause as well as help your company to raise brand awareness across our community.