At the start of 2024, we were thrilled to announce our new charity partner as Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity, who provide specialist nurses and support for seriously ill children and their families across the country.
There are currently over 150 Roald Dahl Nurses caring for over 36,000 seriously ill children across the UK. The charity provides support in other ways, helping to improve the resilience of families who find life very tough. In partnership with over 60 NHS Trusts and Health Boards they also work with their nurses to offer opportunities to develop and improve their skills, build a peer network and share best practices.
Our charitable partnership lasts for three years and we are committed to supporting them through fundraising and other initiatives during this period. We will also be promoting awareness of the important work that they do with our colleagues within the property industry and beyond.
In September 2024 we held the Portman Charity Garden Party, in Portman Square, to raise funds and awareness for Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity.
We were thrilled to raise £35,000 to support their vital work and to introduce them to our peers.
Our corporate charity partner from 2019-2023 was City Harvest, a food redistribution charity, which rescues good-quality surplus food from retailers and manufacturers across London and puts it to good use in a sustainable way.
Every day, thousands of tonnes of healthy, usable food is sent to landfills, while at the same time, thousands of Londoners go hungry. City Harvest collects this free, surplus food from retailers, restaurants and manufacturers and delivers it to over 350 charities across Greater London, helping to feed some of the city's most vulnerable people in homeless shelters, soup kitchens, children's programmes, centres for the elderly and refuges for women experiencing domestic violence.
From 2017–2019 our corporate charity partner was Carers Network. A wide range of fund-raising activities took place during the highly successful partnership, including a charity triathlon with 26 teams from across the property industry competing raising in excess of £65,000.
Other initiatives included a sponsored ‘one thousand miles’ walk from Ascot to Buckingham Palace which raised almost £30,000; a charity bake-off competition; and providing skill-sharing support including CV writing and communication workshops.
To find out more about our charity partnerships please contact Henrietta Cohen by emailing henrietta.cohen@portmanestate.co.uk
“Partnering with the Portman Estate has been a wonderful experience for Carers Network. All their staff have been incredibly supportive of the work we do and have been continually committed to raising much-needed funds to sustain our work, supporting unpaid/informal carers as well as enabling us to develop new opportunities and services for carers.” Sally Miller, Chief Executive of Carers Network
