Giving young people, particularly those with special needs, a sporting chance

CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS
To find out how your company could join our corporate partnerships, please contact Tom Rigby, Fundraising Manager, on 020 7821 2828.

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The generous support of our corporate partners allows us to help give disadvantaged youngsters more of a sporting chance. We would like to express our gratitude to the following companies for their support.


 

National Partners


The Berkeley Group is a leader in the business of urban regeneration. Berkeley Group has become national partner of The Lord's taverners Cricket For Change Programme.


We're delighted that BT has become a National Partner. BT believes in the power of communication to make a better world, and we’ll be working together to deliver 12 new multi-sensory areas for children with disabilities and learning difficulties, leaving a lasting legacy in local communities across the UK. BT is one of the world’s leading providers of communications solutions and services operating in 170 countries.  They are the official communications services partner for the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, and the Official Communications Partner for the England 2018 bid.

For more information about the partnership please click here.


Emirates is one of the World's leading airlines and has a strong history of supporting the cricketing side of our organisation. They have supported our annual tour to Dubai and sponsor our celebrated cricket match against the Fly Emirates XI at Windsor Castle's ground.




Not only does Ford provide us with the trademark Taverners minibuses that help so many children with special needs gain access to recreational activities, it also sponsors the Inner Cities Cup. This under 14 national cricket competition takes place across the UK with finals week being held at the stunning ground at Arundel Castle in Sussex.


LV= is the UK's largest friendly society offering a range of insurance services. LV= SOS Kit Aid, in partnership with The Lord's Taverners, is the award winning cricket and rugby kit recycling initiative. For more information please visit the LV= SOS Kit Aid website.




Macquarie Capital has become a National Partner of The Lord’s Taverners for the next three years. The partnership includes title sponsorship of a variety of key sporting dinners, celebrity cricket matches and golf days across the UK, plus various hospitality opportunities. From 2011, the Macquarie Group Foundation will support our National Table Cricket Competition.



Sky Sports provides world class coverage of the biggest sporting occasions across the globe. It has sponsored our Christmas Lunch since 2005, one of the biggest, most eagerly-anticipated and successful fundraising events in The Lord's Taverners calendar.


 

 

Affinity Partners


Brasserie Blanc, the restaurant chain owned and run by celebrity chef Raymond Blanc, appointed The Lady Taverners as its official charity for 2008/09. Look out for Lady Taverners collection boxes at a Brasserie Blanc restaurant near you: Bristol, Cheltenham, Leeds, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Oxford, Tunbridge Wells, Winchester.



Grange Hotels has been a strong supporter of The Lord’s Taverners over a number of years. Offering discounted rates to members and providing venues for functions has been the basis of our agreement. For more information about staying at a Grange Hotel, please visit www.grangehotels.com




Corporate partnerships with Gray-Nicolls is extensive and hugely beneficial to the charity. They supply our cricket team kit, many of the bags of cricket kit that we give away to schools and clubs, and provide support for our Centurions Award scheme and Team up with the Taverners. Gray-Nicolls also help to promote the charity through use of our bat grip.




We have teamed up with Hotel du Vin to co-host a series of celebrity-hosted lunches and dinners throughout 2010, our Jubilee year. Hosted at Hotel du Vin locations across our Regions, the events will provide fundraising opportunities for the Charity and enable us to reach out to potential new Members.


A family-owned independent wine merchant based in Colchester, The Wine Company has become The Lord’s Taverners official wine partner for the next two years, supplying wine to a number of national events and offering online discounts to Members, with donations back to the Charity. The Wine Company has also made The Lord’s Taverners beneficiary charity of three of its events. For more information or to place and order please click here or call 01206 713560




T.M.Lewin
is a long standing partner of The Lord’s Taverners. Having supported numerous events with the provision of raffle and auction prizes, T.M.Lewin has designed and produced our special Diamond Jubilee Ties as well as matching Bow Ties and Cummerbunds. These are soon to be complemented by two designs of Cufflinks.


  

Insurance broker, Towergate Risk Solutions, and insurer Chubb Insurance, have formed a partnership to sponsor, and raise funds for, our Diamond Jubilee year.

Both companies are active fundraisers. The Towergate Charitable Foundation has generated over £2m in the last two years, while Chubb was a recent winner of the insurance industry’s ‘Charity Initiative of the Year’ award.

Both are now lending their considerable energy to The Lord’s Taverners.

As an expert broker in the field of specialist personal insurance and wealth-management, Towergate is unwavering in its goal of offering its clients reliable cover with impeccable service.  For that reason, Towergate wholeheartedly recommends Chubb’s Masterpiece policy for homes and cars.  At the industry’s Insurance Times Awards, Chubb has been voted ‘Personal Lines Insurer of the Year’ an unprecedented seven times in the last ten years.

And, for every Chubb Masterpiece policy bought from Towergate by one of our members, they will make a donation — to give even more youngsters the sporting chance they deserve.

For a quote or more information please call 01823 625 504 or click here.


 

 

Event Partners


100 Property Club was formed as a club for property developers, and has been generous enough to make us the beneficiary of some of their most successful events, enabling a number of minibuses to be donated.


Barbados Tourist Board has supplied a number of fantastic auction items to help raise funds at Lord's Taverners and Lady Taverners events. In September 2011 they will help fly some of the world's greatest bowlers to the UK for the Macquarie Fast Bowlers Dinner.


Set amidst twelve acres of beautifully landscaped gardens on the calm west coast of Barbados, Coral Reef Club is the epitome of West Indian elegance. The Coral Reef Hotel kindly offered a 7-night stay at the Club for the 2011 Macquarie Eve of Test Match Dinner.




Guinness has supported many Lord's Taverners events over the years, mosst recently sponsoring the 2010 Eve of England vs. Ireland Rugby Dinner.

Dr. James Hull is a leading dentistry practitioner. James Hull has generously supported many of our events and sponsors The Lady Taverners Founders' Day celebrations each summer on the Nursery Ground at Lord's.



The London Hilton on Park Lane is a favourite venue for many events held by The Lord's Taverners, The Lady Taverners and The Young Lord's Taverners.




Moet & Chandon has become a major partner of The Lord’s Taverners Golf Society. As well as sponsoring The Brommers’ Trophy in Sunningdale, Moet & Chandon has offered the charity a number of exceptional auction prizes. The Dom Perignon Dinner is a “money can’t buy” offer for 10 people to experience a wonderful meal with a guided champagne tasting. In addition, Moet & Chandon has generously offered exclusive merchandise and additional magnums of champagne to be used at events. Moet & Chandon will be supporting 7 other golf events throughout the year by entering corporate teams.


Silversea is a long standing supporter of The Lady Taverners through corporate partnerships with its cruise holiday business.