Supporters

How you can support us

Bright Ideas Trust is grateful for the contributions it receives from its partners which allow it to continue with its ground breaking business support activities for young people. We welcome support in any of the following areas:

  • Donations towards our essential core operational costs
  • Donations which will be used directly to invest in businesses started by the young people who we help
  • In kind support through pro bono professional services work and volunteering

If you think you can help in any of these areas please get in contact.

Current Supporters

Bright Ideas Trust is very grateful to the following organisations for their continuing support:

Bank of America
Bank of America provides us with financial support for both out core operating costs and with funding for beneficiary businesses. It also provide a variety of in kind support including help with our recruitment, event organisation and use of its premises for meetings and workshops.

Accenture
Accenture supports us financially through donations towards beneficiary funding. It is also providing in-kind support to both Bright Ideas Trust to help to develop its operational capability and business processes, as well as and professional services support to our beneficiaries.

Taylor Wessing
Taylor Wessing provides Bright Ideas Trust with pro-bono legal advice. To date, this has included preparation of commercial investment documentation, intellectual property rights advice and other commerial guidance.

Ernst & Young
Ernst & Young has recently committed to support us financially and through in-kind support from its staff to assist our investees with accountancy services.

WPP Group
WPP provides us with pro-bono marketing services support. Through two of their portfolio companies, mediaedge:cia and HeathWallace, they have re-designed Bright Ideas Trust’s corporate identity.

Our Keystone Partner

Bank of America

Bank of America made a significant financial donation to Bright Ideas Trust in 2008. The funding covers operational costs and investments in businesses which we support. Bank of America is also providing a variety of in kind support, including help with our recruitment, event organisation and use of its premises for meetings and workshops.

“Bank of America is proud to be working with Bright Ideas Trust as part of our new strategy for community investment. The bank’s partnership will enable us to play our part in empowering young people in London.”
Jonathan Moulds, President of Bank of America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Building on a long-standing tradition of investing in the communities it serves, Bank of America will embark in 2009 on a new, ten-year goal to donate US$2 billion to non-profit organisations engaged in improving the health and vitality of their neighbourhoods. Bank of America’s charitable strategy in the UK is the myPotential myCommunity myEnvironment™ programme. Through this programme the bank will invest to build skills, unlock and nurture talent and increase entrepreneurialism in individuals, organisations and businesses in the UK.

Because of the support from Bank of America, Bright Ideas Trust has been able to develop, with the creation of this website, our Bright Idea Borough campaign in Hackney, the recruitment of our Management Team, as well as supporting young entrepreneurs to develop their own successful businesses.

To find out how you and your organisation can support our continued growth and development, click here.