The Brabners Foundation donates over £25,000 to local causes
The Brabners Foundation's latest round of grant funding has provided over £25,000 to a series of local charities.
The Brabners Foundation
The Brabners Foundation is an independent charity that enables our people to continue our rich traditions of charitable giving and alleviating hardship in our local communities.
It supports our mission to make the difference for our clients, people and communities and is an important part of who we are.
We're so proud that the Foundation has provided grants to local charities including Lancashire Mind, Smart Works Leeds, Jackson’s Animal Rescue and Maggie’s Cancer Centre, national charities like Macmillan Cancer Support, Crisis, Guide Dogs and Marie Curie, as well as many other charities and wonderful causes.
As a certified B Corp with extensive ESG credentials, we understand that no business operates in isolation from its environment and are committed to improving the world around us wherever possible.
How does The Brabners Foundation work?
The Foundation primarily provides support in two ways — partnering and grant-making.
We work closely with partnering charities and charitable causes to provide practical support and facilitate effective use of volunteer time in our communities.
Our charitable fundraising efforts throughout the year are allocated to The Brabners Foundation, enabling the award of grant funding to registered charities that have been nominated by our people.
Find out more about some of the charities we’ve supported below.
Hear from the charities that the Brabners Foundation has been able to support:
86
Grants made
£209,909
Donated
70
Charities supported
“Your donation to North West Air Ambulance will help to support our life saving missions across the region and enable us to bring the hospital to the patient, deliver major trauma care and help us to save and change lives… It’s only thanks to the generosity of supporters like yourself that keep us flying to save lives.”
North West Air Ambulance
“Thank you so very much… Your very kind donation will go a long way to cover the cost of our wigs.”
The Little Princess Trust
“We truly appreciate your shared belief in our mission to improve the mental health of children and their families in North West England. These generous grants went towards providing crucial mental health services for children and young people in schools.”
Place2Be
“Thank you so much for your very generous gift to the School-Home Support Welfare Fund. Your gift came at a time of real challenge for so many of our children, young people and families.”
School-Home Support
“Your donation will help us to provide regular and much needed companionship to some of the oldest and most vulnerable people in the UK.”
Re-Engage
“With thanks to your support, in the past year we supported 1,855 young people… we have provided psychoeducation and peer-led workshops at 11 education establishments.”
The Mental Health Foundation
“The Christmas gift was so beautiful it made my child’s Christmas so much better… just to see her face on Christmas morning was amazing. I would like to thank you and School-Home Support for helping me and my family.”
Parent, School-Home Support
“Annie recently had her Wish granted... She got to explore the beautiful city of Paris and spend some time at Disneyland, making beautiful, magical memories with her family.”
When You Wish Upon A Star
“I am writing to thank The Brabners Foundation for its generous donation towards our work in promoting digital skills to young people to overcome barriers to education and employment… [The] grant funding will assist towards staff costs to provide mentoring support to young people enrolled with the project, as research shows that 94% of learners are more likely to progress if mentored.”
Youth Fed
“Few conditions are as devastating as motor neurone disease. There is no effective treatment and no cure… Your kind gift will help us to improve care and support for people with MND across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It will also help us fund and promote research and to campaign and raise awareness.”
Motor Neurone Disease Association
“I would like to thank you for this extremely kind donation and express how much we appreciate your invaluable support. Your donations will help us to provide counselling and support, health check-ups, skills advice and training, expert assistance on work opportunities, CV preparation and interview practice, and housing advice and support.”
Crisis
Partnering
All our people are afforded two fully paid volunteer days each year. With over 500 colleagues, this equates to more than 1,000 days of practical support. The Brabners Foundation partners with charitable causes in and around our office locations to facilitate and maximise the use of this volunteer time.
Charities can apply to partner with The Brabners Foundation for a year. Applications open on the first working day of October and close on the first working day of November each year, with successful applicants announced in early January the following year. Partnerships then run for 12 months.
If you’re a charity that would benefit from volunteering resources in and around Liverpool, Manchester, London, Leeds or Lancashire, get in touch with our team who will provide you with further information and an application form for you to complete.
We’ll need to know about your charity, the projects with which our colleagues may be able to help and how you propose that the volunteer time could be allocated.
2026 Charity Partnerships
The Brabners Foundation is pleased to announce its Charity Partnerships for 2026. The selected charities will benefit from Brabners colleagues volunteering throughout the year to support their vital work.
Be Free Campaign is a youth-led mental health charity working to close the gap in support for young people, particularly those from marginalised and racialised communities. The organisation aims to equip young people with the tools to challenge inequality and drive lasting change in mental health through evidence-based interventions, culturally informed care and bold campaigning.
Opened in 1990, Wakefield Hospice is dedicated to providing the highest level of symptom management and care for people with advanced, progressive and life‑threatening illnesses. It's been described as “the cream of hospices”.
The North West Air Ambulance delivers specialist, enhanced pre‑hospital care to the most critically ill and injured patients, transporting them to the most appropriate hospital to achieve the best possible outcomes. The medical interventions provided at the scene of an incident are often lifesaving.
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Grant making
Each year, our people are invited to nominate charities to receive financial support through monetary grants awarded by The Brabners Foundation. The Foundation’s trustees consider all applications and select which of the nominated charities will receive a grant and the amount awarded.
Applications to receive this grant funding open on the first working day in July and close on the last working day in August each year, with successful recipients being announced in October.
Our next round of applications will open in July 2026.
Applications for grant funding must be supported and submitted internally by one of our people. The Foundation will not respond to unsolicited requests for grants and assistance. Additionally, grants will only be made to registered charities.
If you’re a charity and would like to apply for grant funding, please get in touch with your usual Brabners contact who can assist you with making an application.
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Flying to save lives — The Brabners Foundation & North West Air Ambulance
The Brabners Foundation donated £4,600 to North West Air Ambulance.
Hair and hope for children with cancer — The Brabners Foundation & Little Princess Trust
The Brabners Foundation donated £2,000 to UK charity the Little Princess Trust.
Crucial mental health services for children — The Brabners Foundation & Place2Be
The Brabners Foundation provided a £2,500 grant to children's mental health charity Place2Be.
Practical support for struggling families — The Brabners Foundation & SHS
The Brabners Foundation pledged £5,000 to UK charity SHS (School-Home Support).
Student mental health workshops — The Brabners Foundation & UOK?
The Brabners Foundation granted £2,500 to The Mental Health Foundation.