All our corporate partners

In 2022 we launched a new partnership with AIG UK Ltd, who provide a range of insurance products and services to clients in business and life. AIG will be providing health information to their customers which specifically focuses on ways to lower the risk of getting cancer through lifestyle choices. They will also be signposting their customers to Cancer Research UK’s nurses helpline.

In 2023, we launched our partnership with one of the UK's leading discount retailers, B&M. We recently delivered our first CRM activity where they will be donating 5p to Cancer Research UK from each product sold in their newly launched exclusive beauty range.

Since it launched in 2016, our award-winning partnership with Bellway Homes has raised £3m. This is thanks to record levels of employee fundraising across around 300 Bellway Homes sites and offices, supported by a dedicated team of 30 charity coordinators.  

Launched in Autumn 2023, our partnership with Cards Direct aims to raise £100k over two years for life-saving cancer research. Cards Direct colleagues and customers can take part in activities in stores across the country including cash donations, fundraising initiatives, volunteering, and through the sale of selected products.

Co-op Legal Services provides specialist services, where a proportion of the fee is donated to Cancer Research UK. This includes discounted Will and Lasting Power of Attorney packages. Since launching in 2017, the partnership has raised over £200,000 for our life-saving work. 

When our partnership launched in 2015, Edwardian Hotels London pledged to raise £2m over seven years towards research at the Francis Crick Institute in London. Edwardian is now over half way to achieving this goal. Partnership fundraising has included exclusive events, customer donations and a whole host of employee challenges, such as climbing Snowdon by night.

HSBC UK employees and customers have been supporting Cancer Research UK since 2006 through ATM and online donations, payroll giving and employee fundraising. HSBC also donated $25m towards the Francis Crick Institute, a state-of-the-art biomedical research facility in London which opened in 2016.

Live Nation UK has supported Cancer Research UK since 2008. Part of the Live Nation family, Ticketmaster UK and Festival Republic have each held their own successful fundraising activities.

Ticketmaster UK has raised over £970,000 since 2015 by inviting customers to donate to Cancer Research UK when they purchase tickets online for selected concerts and events. During October and November, this activity supports our Stand Up To Cancer campaign with staff in the London and Manchester offices having previously taken part in some epic fundraising challenges. In 2019 and 2020, Ticketmaster organised an international collaboration for World Cancer Day, uniting their offices around the globe to raise money through staff fundraising and customer donations.

Since 2014, Festival Republic has asked festival-goers at Wireless and Download to donate to Cancer Research UK in order to receive access to exclusive guest areas. This has raised almost £760,000. It has also supported Cancer Research UK’s Own Your Tone campaign by playing our sun safety content on the big screens at selected festivals.

Our partnership with NIVEA SUN launched in 2012 to raise vital funds for skin cancer research. Since then, we’ve helped millions of people stay safe in the sun with our annual campaign featuring easy-to-remember steps to enjoy the sun safely: 1. Seek shade 2. Cover up 3. Apply sunscreen. 

Through ATM donations, payroll giving and donations via their MyReward scheme, longstanding partner NatWest Group has generated over £7m towards our life-saving work since 2002. NatWest Group also champions the global Giving Tuesday campaign where they encourage employees and customers to sign up to payroll giving and donate their MyRewards points to charity. We are delighted to have them as a partner and thank them for their continued support.

In December 2022, Royal London made a generous donation to medical research to help prevent families from cancer life shocks. Royal London is the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, providing a range of pension and protection products to customers and employers, primarily through independent financial advisers. Royal London are a purpose-driven mutual: ‘Protecting today, investing in tomorrow. Together we are mutually responsible’. This defines the impact they want to have for their customers and for society. From January 2023, our partnership will focus on prevention and long-term research into the causes of cancer. In addition to donations from Royal London’s Social Impact Budget, their 4,000 employees will be fundraising and volunteering to support our partnership.

Runners Need came on board as a Race for Life sponsor in 2023. As the official running retailer of Race For Life they are encouraging everyone of all abilities to get outdoors, get active and have fun with their friends and love ones, as well as sharing their expertise and top tips with participants. 

We joined forces with ScottishPower in 2012 to launch an ambitious, industry-leading partnership. Through employee fundraising, sponsorship of Cancer Research UK events and the ‘Help Beat Cancer’ energy tariff, where ScottishPower makes a donation for every month a customer remains on the tariff, the energy company has raised £30m. It is also the official energy sponsor of Race for Life.

Scrap Car Comparison have supported Cancer Research UK since 2020. Scrap Car Comparison’s Donate A Car scheme allows you to get rid of your old, damaged or unwanted vehicle and give all, or just some, of the profit to Cancer Research UK, as one of their chosen charity partners. These donations will help fund life-saving cancer research.

Since our partnership began in 2013, Slimming World has raised over £17m. This is through campaigns such as the Big Slimming World Clothes Throw, Slimming World does Race for Life, Walk All Over Cancer and the London Marathon. As well as raising vital funds, the partnership also supports our shared goal to raise awareness of the links between obesity and cancer.

In January 2023, Standard Life became our new headline sponsor of Race for Life. Standard Life is part of Phoenix Group, the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business. Standard Life is a brand that has been trusted to look after peoples’ life savings for nearly 200 years.  

Today it proudly serves millions of customers who come to Standard Life directly, through advisers and through their employers’ pension scheme. The sponsorship, which will initially span three years, will include a major TV and radio activation programme as well as a presence at 160 Race for Life events. More than 10m people have taken part in a Race for Life event since they began in 1994, collectively raising nearly £1bn. The sponsorship will cover both the 30th year of Race for Life as well as Standard Life’s 200th anniversary and the activity will go towards helping Race for Life in their bid to raise money for research into all 200 types of cancer.

From 2001 to 2022 Tesco were the proud headline sponsor of Race for Life. In 2018 we built on that partnership, launching a ground-breaking partnership between Tesco, Cancer Research UK, Diabetes UK and the British Heart Foundation. The aim is to work together to help support promoting healthier lifestyles – making the healthier choice the easier choice. In July 2022, the partnership announced the launch of the 'Let's Talk' pharmacy training programme. Specialist trainings were delivered to Tesco pharmacists and pharmacy colleagues to support their conversations with the public. Shoppers can now pop in and talk to one of the team wearing a ‘Let’s Talk’ badge. Tesco also promotes customer fundraising through rounding up shopping to the nearest £1 at self-service tills and through Clubcard donation initiatives.

Since 2004, TK Maxx customers and associates have raised over £44m for Cancer Research UK. Of that total, £40m has helped support research into children’s and young people’s cancers.  

The retailer raises money through customer donations, associate fundraising and sales of selected products in addition to the Give Up Clothes For Good campaign, the UK’s longest-running clothing collection campaign. TK Maxx also sponsor the Cancer Research UK for Children & Young People Star Awards scheme, which recognises the courage and bravery of children and young people facing cancer.   

Thanks to the fantastic support of employees and customers, retailer The Works Stores has raised over £1 million for Cancer Research UK since 2016. This fantastic contribution has been achieved through year-round fundraising events and the in-store sale of charitable products, including our pin badges and World Cancer Day Unity Bands.

Since the start of our partnership with Warburtons in early 2015, the company has contributed over £2.5m through employee fundraising and donations from the Warburton family. We were delighted that Warburtons agreed to extend the partnership to Autumn 2023. And in 2019, the Warburtons Charity Champion team received a Special Commendation for ‘Corporate Fundraising Team of the Year’ at our Flame of Hope awards.