Community is at the heart of everything we do at Touchstone. If you are an individual or group thinking about how you can give back to your community, there are lots of ways you can support us and we would love to hear from you! Here are just a few examples of how you can help:

• Organise a fundraising event using our free ready-made resources:
  • Download our Fundraising Ideas Calendar to get inspiration for fundraising events each month!
  • Download our step-by-step guide to setting up your own fundraising event
  • Download and customise our invite to send to your guests!
  • Organise your own Bake Off using our Bake Sale Kit including bake scorecards, bake name cards, cake toppers, and Star Baker certificate!
  • Organise your own Quiz using our Quiz Kit, including quiz answer and question sheets and certificate! Feel free to use this quiz or take questions from it to make your own quiz.
  • Download our General Certificate and customise it for any event!
    
• Take part in an organised challenge for Touchstone – join events like the Great North Run or the Leeds 10k to raise money on behalf of Touchstone. We are looking into securing paid spaces on some challenges and events – we will update our webpage and social media with any news on this.
• Raise funds for Touchstone through a celebratory event – We would love it if you asked for donations to Touchstone to mark an important celebration! Donations like these are so meaningful and have a real impact on the local communities we work with.

If you are interested in getting involved in fundraising for Touchstone, please get in touch with Director of Operations, Dave Pickard at: fundraising@touchstonesupport.org.uk

We welcome any donations, big or small, whether a one-off gift or a monthly direct debit! 

How to Donate

• The best way to make a donation to us is through our Just Giving page.
• For more information on how to donate, please contact us on fundraising@touchstonesupport.org.uk.

You can also Become a Friend of Touchstone by setting up a regular direct debit to us! Regular givers are vital to ensuring we can confidently plan our services and give our local communities the very best support possible. If you become a friend of Touchstone, you will receive a letter from the CEO, some Touchstone merch, your name featured in our Annual Report and free fundraising resources! Please get in touch to find out more and register as a Friend of Touchstone.

How your support can help the people we work with:*

• £3 pays for a cup of a coffee for a peer support session for someone going through a difficult time.
• £5 pays for a day bus ticket for service users to attend coproduction sessions to help design mental health services.
• £10 pays for a voucher to go towards food parcels and meal planning for our housing clients.
• £20 pays for a basic mobile phone and credit for clients moving into new housing with our Beacon service.
• £30 pays for a dance exercise or chair yoga session for our Leeds-based Sikh Elders Service.
• £40 pays for a return taxi for someone in a remote area of West Yorkshire to get same-day support with Here For You.
• £50 pays for 3 staying safe kits for those who are homeless, including sanitary products and personal alarm.
• £75 pays for someone to get 1-to-1 mental health support from our Wakefield CET
• £150 pays for one outreach session for our Better Together project in Burmantofts to distribute 60 portions of hot foods and mental health support and advice.

*These costings are approximate examples to help you get a better idea of how the money you donate can help support our local communities.

Donating Items

We welcome donations of items to our fundraising campaigns. Please keep an eye on this webpage for regular updates of what we would appreciate donations of our for our services.

Take a look below for examples of recent donations and collections, including those from our 2024 Reverse Advent Calendar campaign.

If you’re a business, we would love to work with you!

By working with Touchstone, your organisation will have access to a range of benefits:

• Enhanced reputation through visible commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility
• Bespoke engagement and employee volunteering opportunities
• Support and advice with Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) priorities from experts in the field
• Training opportunities in Mental Health Awareness, EDI in recruitment, Workplace Wellbeing, Challenging Mental Health Stigma, Men’s Mental Health and other tailored training.

There are lots of opportunities to work with and support Touchstone, including:

• Making Touchstone your Charity of the Year! By making us your chosen charity, you can help raise essential funds for our support services and promote mental health awareness in our communities.
• Corporate volunteering. We know how valuable these opportunities can be to staff, who want to share their skills to give back to the community. Recent opportunities for corporate volunteers have included painting Touchstone offices and maintaining community gardens! We are also really keen for corporate volunteers from the marketing and video production sector to support us with promoting our work.
• Donations in kind. Businesses can also support us by donating items in kind, such as office equipment and prizes for our fundraising events!
• Set up a fundraising event with colleagues. Whether it’s a trek with colleagues, an office bake off or fancy dress day, we would love you to use the opportunity to raise funds for Touchstone. Scroll up to our Community Fundraising section for useful resources to help you set up a fundraising event!

If you would like more support and information around how you can work with us as a business, please contact: Director of Strategic and Business Partnerships Sharon Brown at fundraising@TouchstoneSupport.org.uk.