Homewares, gifts and lifestyle retailer Oliver Bonas (OB), winner of The Greats Awards 2018 Best Specialist Multiple Gift Retailer category, has confirmed that UK Youth is the company’s new Be Kind Charity Partner for 2019 and 2020. The charity was selected because of the vital work it does to support young people across the UK.
“Our partnership with UK Youth allows us to go beyond fundraising and spreading awareness for the charity,” explains Oliver Bonas’ founder and managing director Oliver Tress. “It also allows us to engage with the young people within the UK Youth network to offer experiences, and develop life skills, which we believe will make a real difference to their lives.”
During 2019 and 2020, Team OB will be supporting UK Youth through raising awareness of the charity’s work, as well as organising donations from the sale of a range of products in store and online, team fundraising, and providing unique engagement opportunities for young people to develop their work skills and experience. Oliver Bonas will also be donating 4p, out of every 5p paper bag sold, to UK Youth.
Selected products will be sold in aid of the charity across the two-year partnership with many developed with the UK Youth team and the young people they support. Already available are a velvet constellation cosmetics bag, gold glass photo frame and a ceramic bowl set.
“The partnership with Oliver Bonas presents the young people in our network, and us, with some really exciting opportunities, strengthened by our shared values and positive ethos,” says UK Youth ceo Anna Smee. “We put young people at the heart of what we do and it’s brilliant that Oliver Bonas has also done this, involving young people in the UK Youth product selection from the very beginning of our partnership.”
Donations from OB will not only enable young people build the key life skills they need to build a bright future, but also enable UK Youth to support the 3,536 youth organisations in their network to diversify funding, strengthen quality, harness impact, champion youth and build communities.
In every £1 of UK Youth income, 92p goes directly to young people and the youth sector.
Top: Oliver Bonas has chosen UK Youth as its ‘Be Kind’ charity partner for the next two years.
