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Our Charity of the Year
As a well-known, reputable employer across Cumbria, we recognise the importance of supporting the local community in which we live and work. As a business we receive hundreds of requests for sponsorship and donations from many individuals, charities, and organisations, most of which are very deserving.
However, as our resources are limited we can unfortunately not assist every good cause. For this reason we have chosen to focus our efforts on one Charity of the Year.
We are delighted to announce that this year we will be supporting Blood Bikes Cumbria and Blood Bikes Dumfries & Galloway as our Charity of the Year 2025.
These amazing organisations are run entirely by volunteers who dedicate their time and resources to transporting vital blood, medication, medical equipment and breast milk to hospitals and key services across Cumbria and South Scotland.
Just as our team goes the extra mile for our clients and communities, these volunteers clock up thousands of miles each week to support the NHS and save lives.
Both charities are entirely self-funded, with every penny raised going directly towards their running costs so, throughout 2025 #TeamDA will be hosting fundraiser initiatives to support their vital work.
If you would like to make a donation to either of these worthy causes you can do so by clicking either or the links provided below:
Fundraising for Blood Bikes Cumbria
Fundraising for Blood Bikes Dumfries & Galloway
Apply to be our Charity of the Year 2026
We hold a number of fundraising events throughout the year such as bake days, quiz nights and treasure hunts, and all of the funds raised go to our Charity of the Year.
We choose our Charity of the Year in December each year with our ‘charity year’ running from January to December.
If you would like to be considered as our next Charity of the Year please submit a short written application (no more than 300 words) in support of your charity and send it to marketing@david-allen.co.uk or by post to:
Charity of the Year
David Allen
Dalmar House
Barras Lane Estate
Dalston
Carlisle
CA5 7NYSponsorship and donation requests
Requests for sponsorship, donations or raffle prizes can be made by contacting our marketing team. Please note that the majority of our fundraising is focused on our Charity of the Year which dramatically reduces the level of help we are able to give to other good causes.
Please contact us with details of your organisation and the cause you support complete with:
- An overview of the financial goal of your organisation
- Dates of key events or campaigns
- Suggestions for fundraising initiatives
- Your promotion expectations along with details of your social channels.
by email to marketing@david-allen.co.uk or post to:
Sponsorship Request
David Allen
Dalmar House
Barras Lane Estate
Dalston
Carlisle
CA5 7NYGive a day to charity
All employees of David Allen who wish to take part in voluntary, community, or charitable work are encouraged to do so. In support of this initiative, each employee of the firm is granted one day per year, paid leave in order to get involved in a community or charity day.
This is a great way to support good causes and offers an opportunity for our colleagues to work together within their local community, on activities that directly benefit our local area.
Cumbria Community Foundation
If your application is unsuccessful then head over to the Cumbria Community Foundation website.
David Allen contributes to the Cumbria Community Foundation each year. This worthwhile local cause looks to support people and organisations wishing to invest in the local community. The Cumbria Community Foundation is an independent local charity and you could be just what they are looking for!
Corporate Social Responsibility
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) means that we take responsibility for the outcome of our activities on the environment, society and the economy, having a positive impact in all that we do. Our business has been built on basic principles of trust, loyalty and commitment to our clients. We apply these same principles in all our dealings with our clients, our people and other third parties. We believe that the consistent application of those principles has formed the basis of long-term relationships in the course of conducting our business.
We aim to exceed our clients’ expectations providing a first class, efficient, caring and continuing professional service. We’re proud to say that 99% of our clients would rate their main point of contact as excellent.
We support our local community wherever we can and our ‘Charity of the Year’ initiative has raised more than £60,000 for local charities since 2015. We understand that the talent and energy within our people can contribute to the kind of society we all want to live in. Our ‘give a day’ policy offers our people one days paid leave each year to get involved in a community or charity day. This is a great way to support valuable causes and offers our people the opportunity to work together within their local communities, on activities that benefit our local area. Individuals are free to choose the focus of their voluntary work whether it be environmental responsibility or charity fundraising. All of our people are encouraged to take up community roles, whether as trustees of local charities, school governors or as committed volunteers.
Our business recognises the need to protect the natural environment. Keeping our environment clean and unpolluted is a benefit to all. We expect all our people to promote an environmentally-aware culture and help us to meet the targets we set to improve our environmental performance. To achieve this, we actively promote environmental awareness amongst our people and have daily practices in place to encourage positive behaviour to achieve a greener culture and reduce our carbon footprint. This includes reducing our use of paper and recycling more, using greener forms of transport where possible, through the cycle to work scheme or car sharing, using energy efficient technologies such as LED lighting and efficient heating.
We want to be a responsible business that meets the highest standards of ethics and professionalism and as such we will conduct every aspect of our business with honesty, integrity and openness, respecting the interests of our people, our clients and third parties.