Charity Partners

Becoming a Charity Partner

Here at Bodie Hodges Foundation, our corporate partners are hugely important to us. We pride ourselves on working closely with both small and large businesses, creating mutually beneficial partnerships that have a real impact.We enjoy developing relationships with businesses that share our values, and by working with us, your support can make a lasting difference to the lives of families who have been bereaved of a child.

Some of our charity partners

We pride ourselves at building mutually beneficial relationships with the businesses and people that we work with. We would love you to join Team Bodie and support the work that we do

Reasons to join Team Bodie

Communicating to your customers, staff and investors that you are a socially responsible organisation, who has committed to helping others.

An opportunity to join Bodie’s Supper Club, providing excellent opportunities to network, giving your business exposure to different sectors, potentially attracting new business partners and relationships.

Attracting, motivating and retaining staff and encouraging team building and collaboration amongst your employees with our corporate volunteering opportunities.

Increasing and strengthening your brand awareness with positive PR opportunities including links to our social media channels and website, sponsorship opportunities and Gift in Kind donations.

What your support could fund

Here are just a few examples of what your donations could fund and enable us to continue to support families bereaved of a child

£15

Could fund a Worry kit which includes a Worry Bear Boo, Huge Bag of Worries picture book, post it notes and a pen

£20

Could fund art materials use din our support sessions provided to children and families to express their grief

£30

could fund a 1-1 bereavement counselling session for a bereaved parent or sibling

£60

Could fund a Treasured Memory Bag, a resource sent out to siblings bereaved of a brother or sister, helping them to express and understand their grief and record precious memories

£120

Could fund four 90-minutes bereavement support sessions for an adult or child

£240

Could fund a monthly social activity for our dads group

£550

Could support resources and trips for our #TogetherProject youth group

£900

Could fund bereavement support for a child for one year

Smallman & Son Ltd is proud to have worked with the Bodie Hodges Foundation for a number of years. We have supported a variety of their projects including Bodie’s With Love Project and Bodie’s Treasured Memory Bags. We have also worked together to host events at their boathouse to raise awareness of their inspirational work; something that is very close to our hearts as a family business.

I believe the way in which Nick and Donna have taken the tragic loss of Bodie and focused their energies on helping others in similar circumstances is truly inspirational. At WJ we pride ourselves on being a family business with a commitment to thinking about the communities in which we operate. For the foundation to grow from an idea born out of tragedy requires commitment and dedication that few people would be able to give. Nick and Donna have dedicated the memory of their son to helping others not just in the locality but nationally and WJ are proud to have been just a small part of their story

Following an introduction to the Bodie Hodges Foundation at one of the sports dinners we were keen to find out more about how we could help. Through personal experience we appreciate the importance of organ donation and how being better informed about the process can transform and save lives and provide some solace to those who’ve lost loved ones. It is an honour to be able to support the organ donation programme with a clever link to our business and the industry we work in as organ donation is the ultimate form of recycling.

“Dear Donna, Nick and the Bodie Team,

As we come to the end of a fantastic year of working together, we wanted to write to you and say how amazing its been for us having you as our Charity of the Year 2019.

Not only do you blow us away with the work that you do to promote organ donation and assist in the bereavement process for parents and families who have lost a child, you are all also incredible to work with, are professional in every way and organise some amazing events to raise money for the Charity.

As part of our commitment to corporate social responsibility it has been extremely important for us to partner with a local Charity and having worked with The Bodie Hodges Foundation for the past several years it was a real no-brainer to choose The Bodie Hodges foundation as our Charity of the Year.

We truly hope that the money you have saved on the equipment we have supplied for your events and of course the money Tara raised by taking part in the Great North Run goes a long way towards the running of the Boathouse and the employment of your bereavement counsellor and the memory boxes. We look forward to a long lasting relationship between B Audio Visual and The Bodie Hodges Foundation”.

Tara and Jonathan Bailiss
B Audio Visual