Join Forces with EIC

Organisations like yours can support the Electrical Industries Charity and the colleagues we help every year by joining forces with the EIC. There are two big ways you can support the EIC by becoming an EIC Wellbeing Champion or partnering with the EIC through a Commercial Agreement (CA).

An EIC Wellbeing Champion Business promotes positive wellbeing within their organisation and aims to support employees the best they can. To help champion businesses achieve this the EIC offer all our EIC Champion Businesses access to tailor made resources and wellbeing presentations as well as extended access to the EAP provided by the EIC.

A Commerical Agreement partner means your organisation fundraises for the Charity through the sale of certain products or services. As a CA partner your product line directly donates to our sector colleagues in need and by joining the CA you receive a bespoke marketing campaign advertising our partnership across multimedia and events.

About Our Wellbeing Champions

Our Wellbeing Champions recognise the overwhelming need for support in our industry. They strive to ensure the Charity remains, relevant, accessible, and thought provoking. Our champions help to shape our work within the industry by sharing their experiences and needs. As well as being ambassadors for the Charity within the sector. The EIC champions programme focuses on our six core values and how we can grow our presences and better our support in the industry. These were set out for us by our 10-founding electrical and energy industry members in 1905.

Why we have Wellbeing Champions

To keep our free and confidential services available to the industry we rely on organisations and individuals, such as yourselves to help the Charity in many ways. This could be financially through participating in and promoting fundraising initiatives across the sector. It could be through championing the Charity in the sector as an ambassador, ensuring a wide presence in all industries. It may also be through implementing and driving best practices for our industry and members such as mental health awareness and an industry EAP programme.

Who should join our Wellbeing Champions programme?

Our Wellbeing Champions programme is open to anyone who is working or has worked within the electrical and energy sector, along with all companies large and small within the industries. We are a Charity created by industry members to serve industry members. This programme has been designed to give all industry members the opportunity to shape their Charity to suit the changing industry needs. As well as providing the Charity with many more ambassador voices within the sector.

If any of the below questions apply to your company, the Wellbeing Champions programme is just what you need:

• Do you want to get your staff more involved with well-being initiatives that matter to our industry?
• As a business have you focused on ‘Safety’ much more than health?
• Do you have staff who have expressed interest in volunteering, but you don’t know where best to direct their attention?
• As a business do you have structured wellbeing programmes that your staff know about and use?
• Have you rolled out the Charity’s Industry EAP programme to your staff?

Benefits to being an EIC Wellbeing Champion

As an EIC Wellbeing Champion you are not only supporting your industries Charity to be sustainable for future generations, but you are also gaining a partner who is leading industry change. You will have access to all standard EIC services, and we will exclusively offer you the following member benefits:

Advertising

• Your company logo will be displayed on screens at all Charity events*.
• You will receive a targeted social media marketing campaign. Where we will promote your support through the champions programme on all our platforms.
• You will receive an A4 spread in the Charity LiveWire Magazine annually.
• You will be thanked quarterly in the Charity LiveWire Magazine.
• You will be featured on the Charity website home page in a rolling banner.

*This applies to all events with appropriate equipment. 

Services

• Extended counselling and mental health support of 6 sessions in comparison to our standard 4 sessions.
• A dedicated welfare officer for all service support and enquires.
• Expert facilitated virtual health presentations in line with the EIC monthly health calendar.
• Wellbeing Champion perks:
  a) Monthly champions newsletters to keep you up to date with all Charity developments.
  b) Exclusive access to Charity articles and case studies with a dedicate media executive for PR collaborations.
• What about me? (WAM):
  The WAM portal gives its users a full tool kit of ways to improve resilience as well as recover from moments which may have knocked our confidence. WAM users or champions are offered wellbeing workouts which consists of over 100 short videos on how to improve our wellbeing. These videos offer practical guidance, ideas and more. Alongside video resources there are downloadable worksheets, exercises, self-assessments, postcards and more which you can share with whomever you wish. Not only are there written resources there is also guided audio relaxation exercises.

To become an EIC Wellbeing Champion Business we ask you implement three fundraising initiatives into your organisation to support our industry and our industries charity:

• The Charity Stand Down Hour works on the premise of each member of staff donating just one hour of their salary to EIC. It is facilitated completely through your payroll and will be automatically deducted as a one-off donation annually.

• EIC Day is a fundraising day which can be implemented across all branches with the aim of each employee fundraising or donating just £10 to EIC. EIC Day can happen in the form of a trivia night, a dress-down day, a bake sale or a fancy-dress day.

• Our industry has a lottery that funds the health and well- being services of the Electrical Industry. To implement the workplace lottery staff are given access to a portal to register and a payroll contact is delivered a deduction report for the monthly payroll.  For as little as £1 per month staff could win up to £1,000 or £500 a month with 40 cash prizes plus a mega prize draw of £10,000 to be won twice a year in June and December.

By becoming a champion, you will take on a vital role within the Charity to make sure the work we do is meaningful and preventative. Our champions will assist in ensuring the Charity is around for another 100 years, as we strive to reshape the lives of the people we support and the industries we serve. To become a champion or for more information please contact Nicky Bane: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Commercial Agreements with EIC

Help your industries Charity support more industry members in need by signing up to a Commercial Agreement (CA).

What is a CA with EIC?

CA partnership is focused on the manufactures and electrical wholesalers. The programme is designed by the individual companies where a percentage or a defined value of the purchase price of a product is donated to the Electrical Industries Charity. CA is focused on benefitting all parties involved, the Charity gain much needed financial support, a Charity ambassador, and more visibility within the industry. As a CA partner you get profile from the Charity, a true partnership that supports the full supply chain of the Industry, a focused CSR initiative that encompasses your entire supply chain, the ability to change the financial sustainably of your industries Charity for future generations to come and most importantly promotion of the support services to customers who need it the most.

Deliver value to the Charity and the Charity delivers value to the customer through practical support services, financial assistance programmes, mental health support and training, this is also delivered to the staff of Manufacturers and wholesalers. Delivering a full circle benefit to all involved in our industry.

Why become a CA partner?

To keep our free and confidential services available to the industry we rely on organisations and individuals, such as yourselves to help the Charity in many ways. With the demand for services growing tenfold it is likely now more than ever that an industry colleague, an employee, or a customer you know has had or needs support from the Charity. By becoming a CA partner, you are ensuring the Charity can support more industry people in need when they are faced with challenging times.

As a Charity we know how vital your financial support will be so to make the process as simple as possible we have created model partnership agreements, standardised partnership marketing materials and have a CA Partner team ready to assist you at any time.

How can you support Corporate Social Responsibility in your business?

By becoming a CA partner, you are contributing to your Corporate Social Responsibility commitment. When implementing this initiative, you are donating directly to the industry and your entire supply chain. You are assisting in continuing and developing education and training in our industry such as Mental Health training and financial assistance to those in our industry that have fallen on hard times. Through this partnership you are gaining additional Charity support services for your employees and their immediate family members should they it. However, most importantly you are becoming an industry leader, you are showing the importance of giving back to our community and specifically our industries Charity which was created by industry members to serve industry members.

What EIC offer you in return for becoming a CA Partner:

As a CA partner you are not only supporting your industries Charity to be sustainable for future generations, but you are also gaining a partner who is leading industry change. You will have access to all standard EIC services, and we will exclusively offer you the following member benefits.

Advertising

• A ‘in partnership’ Charity logo to be displayed with chosen products.
• Your company logo will be displayed on screens at all Charity events*.
• You will be thanked in all event table brochures.
• You will receive a targeted social media marketing campaign. Where we will promote your support through CA on all our platforms.
• You will be featured as a CA partner in weekly Charity email campaigns.
• You will receive an A4 spread in the Charity LiveWire Magazine annually.
• You will be thanked quarterly in the Charity LiveWire Magazine.
• You will be featured on the Charity website home page in a rolling banner.

*This applies to all events with appropriate equipment.

Services

• Extended counselling and mental health support of 6 sessions in comparison to our standard 4 sessions.
• A dedicated welfare officer for all service support and enquires.
• Expert facilitated virtual health presentations in line with the EIC monthly health calendar.

To become a CA partner or for more information regarding CA with EIC please contact Tessa Ogle, Managing Director: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.