DobbiesLocal CharityPartner 2015

Application Form

Store applying to(must be within 20 miles of charity activity):

What is the name of your charity and your registered charity number?
Address:
Name of contact:
Contact position at your charity:
Contact address:
Contact Telephone number:
Contact email:
In what year did your charity start?
Please explain the aims, objectives and activities of your charity:(in less than 200 words)
Please select the category you are applying under(circle one):
  • Children’s welfare
  • Health & disability
  • Elderly people
  • Environmental
  • Wildlife/conservation issues

What are your key short-term objectives and activities for this year (either financial or calendar)? (in less than 200 words)
What is your annual fundraising target and how are the funds used?
If you were to work with us as our local charity partner, what will the amount raised be used for? (If it’s a variety of different projects, feel free to list)
What services or projects do you provide which are local to our Dobbies Garden Centre (within a 20-mile radius of our store)?
Have you received support in the past from any other DobbiesGarden Centres on a local basis? If so, can you list details and contacts (if you have a name) you have worked with.
Why do you think would Dobbies customers get behind your charity/campaign? (in less than 200 words)
How many people do you hope will benefit from the funds raised during a partnership with Dobbies?
Give an example of when you’ve worked with a local business for fundraising purposes. What activities were involved and detail how this benefitted the charity. (in less than 200 words)
What type of support would you be able to give the campaign? (i.e. marketing & PR support - press release, website links, inclusion in newsletters etc; provision of fundraisers to our centres or - collection buckets, T-shirts, merchandise etc; any additional merchandise or ideas which might bring our events to life?)
Why do you think you’d be a great Dobbies local charity partner? (in less than 200 words)

Thank you for taking the time to put your charity forward for consideration as Dobbies’ Local Charity Partner– we wish you the very best of luck with your application. The chosen charity will be in place by 1st March 2015.

Next steps:

Please email form to individual store contact by 16th February 2015:

Aberdeen /
Ashford /
Atherstone /
Ayr /
Bar Hill /
Birtley /
Braehead /
Carlisle /
Chesterfield /
Cirencester /
Clyde Valley /
Cumbernauld (Westerwood) /
Dalgety Bay /
Dundee /
Dunfermline /
Edinburgh /
Gailey /
Gillingham /
Grovelands /
Inverness /
King's Lynn /
Kinross /
Lisburn /
Liverpool /
Livingston /
Milngavie /
Milton Keynes /
Perth /
Peterborough /
Ponteland /
Preston /
Shepton Mallet /
Shrewsbury /
Southport /
Stirling /