Partnership with the Commercial Sector

Staff Bereavement Affects Your Business

Sadly, few organisations have the skills and expertise to support a colleague when they are bereaved and there can be significant repercussions.

A bereaved employee may:

Need time off or changes to their work patterns to deal with the practicalities of their new life
Experience emotional ups and downs, overwhelming them at unexpected moments, affecting staff relationships and dynamics.
Be unable to perform as they did before their bereavement.
Experience depression or long-term mental or physical ill health.

Without understanding and support, bereavement can result in significant costs, not only to the NHS but also to your business in staff loss and reduced productivity.

How We Can Help You

Becoming a Commercial Partner with AtaLoss can help your employees get timely support and help you reduce the negative impact of bereavement in your workplace.

Direct your employees to our unique bereavement signposting website - www.ataloss.org – which aims to provide the full range of bereavement support services and information, providing holistic support for wellbeing. See our gold standard for signposting here.

Direct to AtaLoss.org for free by using our logo. Describe us as 'AtaLoss.org, the signposting hub for finding UK wide bereavement support services, resources and information.'

In addition, we can support you to incorporate bereavement support and well-being into your plans and systems so that can you promote your organisation as a bereavement friendly business and help you demonstrate your commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility.

Supporting us as a charity could also be motivating and inspiring for your colleagues and benefit your organisation in other ways. Being able to demonstrate you are a compassionate and caring employer is great for business – an organisation everyone will be proud to be a part of.

In addition to directing to AtaLoss.org there are two principal ways you can partner with us to benefit your business and support AtaLoss.

Commercial Sector Subscriber

We offer annual or multi-year subscriptions with a menu of services that include:

Grief and Bereavement awareness training for staff at all levels.
Access to pre-recorded bereavement awareness sessions for all current and new staff.
Access for bereaved staff to online peer group support
Access to bi-monthly webinars running on different grief subjects by an expert panel.
Access to recordings of the bi-monthly webinars.
Access to periodic online peer group and cross sector learning sets.
Annual bespoke training session on application of bereavement support for your organisation, online or in person.
Bespoke additional in-depth training webinars.

Alternatively, or in addition:

Sponsor AtaLoss

We ask Commercial Partners to consider making an annual sponsorship donation of £1,000 or more in recognition of our free-to-access signposting website.

You get your logo and a link to your website on our dedicated commercial partner page. With over 250k page views of our website this gives your company profile and an opportunity to be found by users of our website.
You can also have a company fundraising page to which employees can add photos and comments alongside reporting funds raised, giving you even more profile.

Being an AtaLoss Sponsor offers you opportunities for team building and of raising your profile as a company committed to social responsibility.

You could for example:

Enter a team into a Challenge Event that would also raise money for AtaLoss.
Run a cause related marketing campaign - promote AtaLoss and yourselves.
Encourage employees to support the charity by; designating AtaLoss as your charity of the year, donating through payroll giving, engaging in marathons, couch to 5k, dress down Friday, sports tournament, cake sale etc, contributing to a company fundraising page on our website in memory of a colleague, etc.
Match any funds raised by employees.
Provide us with a gift in kind, for example, expertise (financial, legal, HR), promote us to your networks, or support us with advertising, printing or mailing promotions on our behalf.
Offer Pro Bono support within the expertise of the business.

You can do as much or as little as you wish.