In November 2024, with the festive spirit on the horizon, Tempest Photography collected additional funds for its charity partner Raise Your Hands. The photography leader worked with local businesses in Cornwall, collecting prizes for a grand raffle and bake sale.
Tempest Photography’s Partnership With Raise Your Hands
Tempest Photography partnered with Raise Your Hands in 2024, offering to donate 5% of all monies when families purchase a charity photo pack. This product has proved popular with customers, whose orders are helping the photography experts support the philanthropic initiative.
In the 2024 holiday season, Tempest was keen to go the extra mile to support Raise Your Hands. It launched the raffle and bake sale, which raised £750. The raffle offered high-value prizes like hotel stays, afternoon cream teas, escape room experiences, and treat-packed hampers. Numerous people got involved, and the winners were delighted with their prizes.
About Raise Your Hands
Raise Your Hands provides essential financial support and advice to 16 small children’s charities. As the biggest 5% of charities receive 88% of funding, the non-profit organisation ensures that smaller charities also receive the funds they need to achieve their missions.
Whether they work to reduce HIV or suicide, these charities are experts in their niches. They have the ability to transform and save lives. Raise Your Hands recognises that, in many cases, smaller charities are better placed to address specific challenges than bigger charities. This is because they are often specialists.
Tempest Photography in Conversation With Raise Your Hands
Tempest Photography has interviewed Raise Your Hands’ Partnerships Manager Madelaine Jones on the charity’s essential work.
Jones explained that great ideas only tend to receive backing in the corporate world. In the philanthropy space, this is typically only the case for well-known charities with big budgets. Even when small charities have the most effective ideas, they don’t usually have the marketing budget to reach lots of people.
That’s why Raise Your Hands provides long-term funding for small charities supporting children. Over the past decade, it has raised more than £2 million for these organisations. The donations are unrestricted, which means the charities can pour the funding into the resources they know they need most.
When Tempest asked about the challenges Raise Your Hands faces, Jones explained that the difficult economic climate can make it difficult for companies to back the organisation. However, plenty of companies looking to support young people do get involved and help the organisation with its critical work.
As a result, in 2023, Raise Your Hands’ charities’ income climbed by 17%. Their staff teams grew by 12%. And the number of children they supported rose by 25%. This is a fantastic milestone given that the number of young people in the UK needing support is higher than ever.
Thanks to Raise Your Hands’ support, various charities — like Football Beyond Borders — have grown so much they’ve passed the £2 million threshold the organisation uses to define a small charity.
About Tempest Photography
Tempest Photography sits at the forefront of the UK’s photographic industry. Since Horace Tempest founded the company over eight decades ago, it has supported schools, nurseries, and universities all over the UK with its classic and fun portraits, group photos, and ceremony shots. Since then, Tempest has added military and travel photography to its services, not to mention yearbooks, hoodies, and visual marketing.
Photography aside, Tempest is committed to creating social impact. The company is proud to support Raise Your Hands and hopes its customers will continue purchasing charity packs to support the organisation.
