Impact Intelligence
Stay ahead in corporate philanthropy. Here you’ll find practical insights, data-backed thinking, and real examples of how companies can build meaningful, measurable charity partnerships. From CSR strategy to employee engagement, explore ideas that help your business deliver genuine impact.
Your Social Impact, Sorted
We help companies build meaningful, measurable social impact by partnering with exceptional small UK children’s charities through a simple, strategic model.
Introducing Raise Your Hands Partners
A fully managed partnerships platform for finance SMEs — built to turn good intentions into measurable, lasting social impact.
Corporate Giving That Works
Most corporate giving programmes fail quietly — not from lack of intention, but from lack of structure. Here’s what effective looks like.
Case Studies
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The Dandelion Time Hackathon
The best partnerships don’t just raise funds — they build capacity. As part of our work with Marshall Wace, we designed a hackathon to solve a real operational challenge for Dandelion Time. Here’s how it came together.
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The Secret Santa Challenge
Secret Santa: beloved office tradition or a fridge magnet from someone in marketing you’ve never met? A conversation with one of our charities got us thinking. What if we could harness it for good?
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Stopping Educational Exclusion
Not every corporate partner wants to write a cheque. One of ours wanted to do something concrete for young people facing barriers to education. The result: ninety-five tablets in the hands of children who needed them most.
“Our partnership with Raise Your Hands has made it easy for Lumyna to turn our commitment to giving back into tangible impact. The programme we’ve built together truly connects our team with causes that matter.”
Lumyna
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Corporate Giving That Works: A Practical Guide for Finance Firms
Three-quarters of UK businesses give nothing to charity. Among those that do, most programmes fade quietly within a year — not from lack of intention, but from lack of structure. This guide covers what effective corporate giving actually looks like for finance firms, and how to build something that lasts.
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Why Corporate Volunteering Fails — And How to Fix It
The volunteering day had been planned for weeks. Emails went out. The charity was briefed. On the day itself, six people showed up. This is one of the most common things we hear from finance firms trying to build employee volunteering programmes. And it’s almost never an apathy problem.
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Hackathon with Kidscape & StreetDoctors
Twelve interns. Two charities. One day to tackle challenges that small teams rarely get the time or outside thinking to address. This is what happened when we brought fresh skills and genuine problem-solving to Kidscape and StreetDoctors.
