Become a Champion for Children
Your business can support children in emergencies
Champion for Children is an annual membership programme that allows your business to make a meaningful impact for children living in emergencies caused by conflict and natural disasters.
By becoming a Champion for Children, your business can help save children’s lives during emergencies while demonstrating leadership, generosity, and a commitment to a better future.
When you sign up, your business will be recognised as a Champion for Children, receiving benefits that demonstrate your values to your employees, customers and stakeholders.
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Your Impact with UNICEF
With offices in more than 190 countries across the globe, UNICEF is the world’s leading children’s organisation, committed to upholding the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and advocating for all children, everywhere.
Champions for Children contribute to the Children’s Emergency Fund (CEF). This fund allows UNICEF to plan and prepare for the eventuality of an emergency, pre-positioning vital life-saving emergency supplies in at-risk regions and provide training on distribution and use of supplies before an emergency. So that when a disaster does strike, we are ready to reach children with life-saving support anywhere in the world within hours.
With its accessible and flexible membership offerings, the Champion for Children programme provides companies with a unique opportunity to make an impact for children through three levels of commitment:
SILVER CHAMPION
€500 – €999.99 Annually
- Official UNICEF Champion for Children Logo.
- Thank-you email & letter.
GOLD CHAMPION
€1,000 – €4,999.99 Annually
All Silver benefits, plus:
- All assets unlocked (logo, email signature, social media title, web banner) & printable membership certificate.
- Champion for Children Logo and other assets can be featured on your company’s website and social media.
- Annual impact update.
PLATINUM CHAMPION
€5,000+ Annually
All Gold benefits, plus:
- Invitation to an exclusive UNICEF impact webinar.
- Custom social media post celebrating your business & impact.
- Your company thanked on the UNICEF Ireland’s Corporate newsletter.
- Champion for Children Logo featured on your company’s annual report.
As a Champion for Children, your company can make a real difference in a way that works best for you:
- Annual Donation: Fund emergency responses and vital recovery projects by making a direct and annual company donation.
- Employee Fundraising: Boost pride and teamwork with creative fundraising ideas. We will provide your staff with ideas and tools to create your own fundraising challenges on behalf of UNICEF Ireland.
Every euro you give helps provide a vital lifeline where and when it’s needed most. For example:
- €500 could provide 85 children with thermal blankets, keeping them warm in times of crisis.
- €1,000 could train one mental health professional to deliver psychological first aid and other critical support in conflict zones.
- €5,000 could provide 32 ‘school-in-a-box’ kits, helping nearly 18,000 children continue their education during emergencies.
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Who can become a Champion for Children?
- All companies seeking to join the Champion for Children programme must have been in business for a minimum of one year or can provide confidence through profit statements of the business’ capacity to make regular contributions.
- UNICEF Ireland does not allow access to our database to help publish or sell artwork, clothing, unpublished songs or events.
- Exclusionary criteria: UNICEF will not accept donations from companies or groups of companies involved in the manufacturing and marketing of weapons, alcohol, tobacco and tobacco-derived products, electronic cigarettes, milk powder formulas violating the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes, or from gambling or adult content-related companies.
Silver champion
€500 minimum
Annually
Gold champion
€1,000 minimum
Annually
Platinum champion
€5,000 minimum
Annually
