Here at MFC Foundation we develop long lasting partnerships with companies across a wide range of industries, delivering clear business benefits for them and vital funds for our work in the community.

Our life-changing work wouldn’t be possible without the extraordinary generosity of our corporate partners who support us in a number of ways, including via programme sponsorship, donations, in-house fundraisers and adopting us as their charity of the year.

Ways to work together

We can tailor a mutually-beneficial partnership including any of the combinations below. There are plenty of ways to suit your organisation and objectives.

Charity of the Year

By choosing us as your charity of the year we can work together to build a bespoke calendar of engaging fundraising activities for your employees. Organise your own activities or take part in our fundraising campaigns like Middlesbrough 10K and Ali Brownlee 5K, there’s plenty on offer.

We’d love you to nominate MFC Foundation as charity of the year to your charity champions, senior managers and HR team.  If you’d like advice on how to do this, email our team and we can help.

Sponsorship

We have several high-profile events and campaigns, like the Great North Run, so there’s plenty of opportunity to shape sponsorship packages for a specific part of our work.

Cause Related Marketing

If your brand has a product or service that makes for a good fit with our cause, then a commercial agreement to donate a proportion of its profits to us could be a mutually beneficial partnership.

Payroll Giving

Payroll Giving is a great way for employees to make monthly donations to charity, straight from their salary, before tax is deducted. It’s easy for employers to set up and shows strong charitable support.

Strategic Partnerships

If your CSR strategy is aligned to what we do, there could be exciting opportunity to offer pro bono services, share skills or work together at a more strategic level. This could be about changing public behaviour or truly transforming the lives of people from all walks of life across Teesside. Speak to us if you think there is shared synergy in our core purposes that means we should look to team up.

Get in touch

Want to know more about becoming a corporate partner? Call our Fundraising Team on 01642 757676 or email enquiries@mfcfoundation.co.uk

We want to say a huge thank you to our corporate partners for all of their support in the past year.

Corporate Supporters

We were thrilled to celebrate another memorable afternoon as the Foundation took centre stage for the Men’s 2024/25 dedicated fixture.

Emblazoned at pride-of-place on the club shirts, thanks to a generous donation from Kindred Group, the official charitable arm of the club was at the heart of Boro’s latest EFL Championship fixture.

Participants from Premier League programmes Primary Stars, Inspires and Kicks, combined with Foundation-specific sessions Active Through Football (breaking barriers for sports participation), In Your Stride (walking football) and Roary’s Academy (aimed at 2–6-year-olds) for a plentiful parade of flag-wavers before kick-off.

One of those involved in the 160-participant walkaround was mascot Finley Atkinson, hand-picked from our Switch It programme for the honour of leading out the team alongside captain Hayden Hackney.

Children from St. Joseph’s Primary, one of our Primary Stars’ partner schools, completed the line-up for the 12.30pm tunnel walkout while pupils from Kader Academy and John Emmerson Batty Primary School, two schools where Foundation staff deliver the Joy of Moving programme, enjoyed half-time penalties in front of the South Stand.

In the stands, participants linked to our Warm Spaces programme (offering comfort and physical activities to members of the community) were the recipients of a kind offer from Tillicoultry Quarries, who donated the use of their hospitality box for 13 individuals.

Elsewhere, each member of the matchday squad was issued a Foundation-branded warm-up and playing shirt with signatures added to the items after the full-time whistle.

Not available for auction at present, the shirts will be utilised later in the season by the Foundation’s Events and Fundraising department. We will let supporters know how these can be obtained via our social media channels.

Thank you to everyone who played a part in making the Men’s Foundation game such a success.