Insurance Charities Awareness Week – How will you get involved?
The Insurance Charities wants to ensure no insurance employee who is struggling misses out on the financial and practical support it can offer. As we all experience the sharp rise in cost of living, the Charity’s support may be needed now more than ever. We hope that you and your employer will get involved and help spread the word during the dedicated campaign week.
The Charity will be issuing a digital Supporter Toolkit ahead of the week (late May/early June) packed with resources and guidance to help you participate, so please keep an eye out for that.
Ways to support the campaign
- Talk to your colleagues about the Charity. It doesn’t need to be formal perhaps over a cup of tea or at the end of a meeting.
- Order free giveaways for colleagues ahead of the week and book onto the special online 'Dementia Friends' session.
- Retweet and share its social media posts using the hashtag #ICAW.
- Think of those in your professional networks who may be struggling and signpost them to the Charity.
- Send your own posts from your personal social media accounts and company accounts (where possible).
- Circulate the resources The Insurance Charities will be sharing in advance. Perhaps consider including the content in your team meetings, on your intranet, or in staff wellbeing sessions.
- Share the Charity’s 2022/2023 impact report it will publish at the close of the campaign.
- Request a short online presentation from one the Insurance Charities team.
Please put the dates in your diary, and look out for further updates on its social media channels, campaign webpage, and awareness week bulletins as they become available.
If you’ve not signed up for the Charity’s ebulletins you can do so at the bottom of their homepage, and can follow them on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Authored by The Insurance Charities
About Charity
The Insurance Charities is the only charity supporting current and former insurance employees and their families across the UK and Ireland.
How do we help?
The charity transforms insurance people’s lives for the better by providing a lifeline to support them with whatever difficulties they may be facing such as redundancy, poor health, domestic abuse, and tragedy.
We can help people throughout their career and beyond with one off and ongoing financial and/or practical support for as long as it’s needed. In 2022/2023 we gave out over £1.3 million to those experiencing financial hardship to help pay for things such as household appliances, school uniform, funeral costs, rehabilitation, and property adaptations. We also work with other organisations such as Aware in Ireland, Shelter UK, and Alzheimer’s Society to provide practical support where needed. Through these fantastic charities we can help those experiencing mild depression and anxiety, assist those with housing concerns, and those affected by dementia.
Did you know?
• It doesn’t matter what role you’ve had working in the sector
• Your application will be treated in the strictest of confidence
• You don’t need to be a member of a professional body or association to access support
• Both working and non-working people can apply
• The charity also supports dependants of insurance employees (past and present) such as children and partners.
We are keen to talk to employers across the industry about how we could support their colleagues so encourage people to get in touch to find out more.