Sponsorship
A kind financial donation is imperative to the existence of Winchester Creatives. Even though our leadership team and mentors all volunteer their time, we pay our creative apprentice team a real living wage. Every £1 donated to Winchester Creatives generates £7.25p in social impact (using the HACT Social Impact Calculator). More information below.
How do we use financial contribution?
90% of the money we’ve received so far has been used to provide a real living wage for the young creative mentees to work on our sponsored projects. We also have some small administrative costs, like hosting, domain name renewal, the cost of our community platform that needs to be covered, which financial contributions from individuals and businesses help to cover.
Business sponsorship
We encourage business and organisations to get in touch with us, we can offer creative solutions that other more traditional creative agencies can’t. Our sponsored projects transform the usual client/agency relationship to a more collaborative approach. Projects are worked on by a group of young apprentices and overseen by a volunteer team of experienced creatives.
We have secured our first business sponsor, Casella Family Brands, distributor of the hugely popular [Yellow Tail] Wines. They have kindly donated £10,000 to provide a living wage to support 5 of our young apprentices for 2.5 months. Perhaps your organisation could do the same and change the lives of our next set of creative mentees?
Social return on investment (SROI)
Being able to demonstrate our social impact is a valuable step for us. It’s what makes us different from other creative agencies. This proven social impact means that businesses can use money from their Corporate Social Responsibility and Diversity and Inclusion budgets to support this initiative, whilst still receiving impactful work that helps with their marketing.
Using the HACT Social Return on Investment Calculator, for every pound currently put into our initiative we’re generating £7.25 of social investment. The training and mentoring we’re giving young people is making their chances of employability in their chosen fields much greater, which is beneficial to society.
Using the HACT framework means that on completion of projects we’ll be able to give clients a report of their overall project’s impact, that is independently verified by a credible third party.
Donations
We value any kind of financial contribution, whether that’s from a large multinational company, or an individual who wants to make a difference. All money goes towards helping young people through this difficult time. Individual donations are handled by our Crowdfunder page. To get in contact with us directly to discuss donations please call us on: 020 3773 3611
Gabriele Daubaryte, mentored by Sam Barber