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Empower Your Corporate Social Responsibility with Speak Street

Sponsoring Speak Street offers a compelling way for companies to advance both CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) and DEI (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion) goals. From a business perspective, partnering with Speak Street demonstrates genuine commitment to equity and inclusion, not just internally, but externally in London. It can help improve employee satisfaction (especially for those from diverse backgrounds), strengthen your  brand reputation among socially conscious consumers and employees, and meet stakeholder expectations around social impact.  Speak Street offers fun, social and flexible ways for employees to volunteer. 

 

Corporate Sponsor Benefits For Your Business

  1.  Increased employee engagement Our projects have the possibility for multiple employee volunteering opportunities. These range from 15-minute-long regular events, such as supporting a weekly online class, through one-off, flexible/remote engagements, such as concept creation or proof reading, to team opportunities, such as creating a launch event for a new workbook.
  2. Value for money We can create impactful projects from as little as £500-£10,000. These can range from a one-off print run of our workbooks for a new group of refugees to the creation of a whole new book from start to finish with employee volunteer involvement.
  3. Flexibility Our volunteering opportunities are fun, flexible, and genuinely meaningful, making the most of your employees’ valuable time and delivering a maximum impact for our end users as well as volunteer satisfaction.
  4. Proven track record Speak Street was a highly commended finalist in this year’s Lord Mayor’s Dragon awards for a corporate partnership with Mishcon De Reya. We have also won two Corporate Engagement awards
  5. Proven impact We evaluate our programmes with the help of Community Impact CIC to ensure we are delivering on our aims.
  6. Experienced in co-branding We can co-brand our materials and are flexible to sync with your priorities or messaging which you would like us to include.
  7. Grassroots community partner We are a grassroots, London-based organisation. We know the needs of the community we serve well and are proud to have many active volunteers and community partners who help us achieve our goals.

Corporate Partnership Opportunities

  • One-off or regular English classes or reading events (volunteering) 
  • Custom projects for cultural institutions
  • Sponsorship of publications and  events
  • Walking tours
  • Flexible or remote employee volunteering opportunities

Impact Powered by Partnerships

We’ve partnered with some of the biggest companies in London such as Linklaters, Mishcon de Reya, and Euromonitor

We regularly ask our learners for their views on the sessions we run. This enables us to explore how engaged our learners are, and to collect data we can use to improve the way we work.

“The way they do things here is good. I enjoy everything, the English class and the gardening. I have strongly improved my English” – Helen  

“I appreciate the way you are encouraging us to learn more to prepare for our future.” – Sara

“I like best speak street art talks sessions because it important because its a distraction from our problems” – Amir

We’ve recently been told: “I have gained a very different impression of the area, before I only knew the main road but since starting the sessions I’ve seen all the beautiful shops and lovely places to sit down together”  – David

About our sessions at the Skip Garden “ One of the students told me they didn’t think art galleries wanted people like them to visit, I was so pleased to see the student discover they were indeed welcome” – Speak Street volunteer

“As a volunteer I’ve enjoyed seeing the reaction of the student’s faces when they were truly fascinated and engaged by a piece of art. I like seeing students’ engagement and reaction to pictures and objects that I normally wouldn’t give much attention to, for example and a picture of palm tree in the Photographers’ Gallery.  It is extremely easy to volunteer on this project and not a large commitment in terms of time.  I think compared to last year, Speak Street has really stepped up its game in terms of the exhibits and galleries that it takes it students to so in this respect, keep up the good work! There has also been an improvement in having a space to discuss the pieces that the students have seen, if this could be maintained that would be great.  It is very important that Mishcon supports Speak Street because it is such a niche initiative and it also allows people from all walks of life to meet.” – Michaela, Mishcon de Reya  volunteer

Speak Street at C4WS

C4WS runs a winter night shelter in Camden providing emergency accommodation to those with nowhere else to go and then supports them to move on into housing. In a shelter season the guests referred to us come typically come from more than 25 different countries. For many of them, English is not their first language and their ability to speak and understand English provides a significant barrier to both their housing and wellbeing.
 
Consequently, provision of English Classes is a vital support for these guests and we were delighted to team up with Speak Street this winter to facilitate this. Every Wednesday afternoon the Speak Street teachers would come to our office and run fun, informative and tailor-made sessions to help our guests improve their English. Over the course of the five months we were able to notice the significant improvements not just in guests’ ability to communicate, but their confidence to hold conversations and manage their paperwork and the emergence of a growing bond amongst each other as they also developed friendships and built a community.
 
The Speak Street teachers were friendly, warm and instantly helped put guests at their ease. The classes were focused on things that mattered to our guests e.g. health, employment, homelife. This created real engagement, but also helped our guests prepare for the work we would do with them to help them gain jobs and housing, ensuring a real synchronicity of support. 
 
Each week guests would tell us how much they were looking forward to their next session and we would often find them at the shelter with heads in dictionaries or using apps on their phones because they were eager to build on what they had learnt and prepare for the next week. Having worked at C4WS for eight years I also saw the rare phenomenon of guests arriving for appointments not just on time, but early, as they were anxious not to miss a moment of the classes!
 
Being homeless brings with it additional complexities and worries for our guests and the care the Speak Street team took to create a learning environment that catered for this was incredible. Not only were they able to deliver for all abilities but the structure of the sessions was fitted around the rolling nature of referrals to our project which meant that each week there would be new people arriving who could easily sit alongside those who were regular attendees. In fact, this is probably the biggest testament to the sessions as guests who left the shelter and moved into their new houses were keen to continue attending the classes and we saw many people participating months after they had left us.
 
We cannot thank Speak Street enough for running these classes. This went beyond helping people learn English. It contributed significantly to them being able to leave homelessness, start to rebuild their lives and forge new, independent and exciting futures for themselves.” – Sam at C4WS
 
 

Speak Street at Edith Neville Primary School

“We have been hosting the wonderful Speak Street at our Family Centre and school for 3 years. We can not thank them enough for the enormous support, care, nurture and help they have given every parent that comes to the sessions. It can be very daunting to start to learn another language and Joanna and Gee both welcome parents and make them feel safe and motivated to commit to learning English. They have been very accommodating to meet the changing needs of our school community and welcomed many newly arrived Afghanistan refugees in to their sessions and ensured they had a translator to support their needs.Sadly,  some of our Afghan families were moved out of borough but Joanna and Gee immediately came up with an online zoom session to support their learning. Our Centre supports some of the most isolated and vulnerable families in the locality and these sessions are vital to support adults improve their English and confidence. They are fun, practical and everyone is treated with respect and care in the session. We can’t thank them enough for their much needed  support, warmth and dedication.”

Amy Hagemann Edith Neville School

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Speak Street
5-7 Buck Street
London
NW1 8NJ
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