Corporate Social Responsibility

Mental Health UK works across the country to support people affected by mental health problems – bringing together over 40 years of expertise from four national founding charity partners to improve understanding and provide vital care. A partnership with Siemens Healthineers can help to support services like Clic, an online space to talk about mental health, launched in response to challenges raised by the pandemic. COVID-19 has, in many cases, exacerbated loneliness, with 2.6 million adults across the UK reporting they feel lonely “often” or “always”¹.

“We are proud to be partnering with Siemens Healthineers at such a critical time,” states Katie Legg, Director of Strategy and Partnerships at Mental Health UK. “Recent research suggests up to 8.5 million adults will experience poor mental health in the coming years, owing to the pandemic. Siemens Healthineers will help us support more people when they need it most. Thank you to all the staff who voted for us - together we will support thousands of people in managing their mental health.”

Every 14 minutes, someone in the UK is diagnosed with blood cancer. Founded in 2003, Cure Leukaemia funds the Trials Acceleration Programme (TAP) network across the UK. Celebrating its 20th birthday in 2023, the number of centres that Cure Leukaemia funds from Glasgow to Southampton has expanded from 12 to 15. The network funds specialist research nurses who facilitate pioneering clinical trials to provide potentially life-saving treatments to people who have exhausted traditional medical routes and subsequently, the trials develop new treatment combinations that affect how blood cancer is treated for the better across the globe.

Cure Leukaemia is the exclusive UK charity partner of the Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift and facilitate two cycling challenges using these events as inspiration, The Tour 21 and The Route where amateur cyclists ride the routes a week/day ahead of the professional riders/teams. In addition, Cure Leukaemia facilitate further cycling events with The Tour of the TAP and London 2 Paris along with a running Tour of the TAP variation and mixed and women’s only football events held at England football’s training base, St. George’s Park in the Copa del Cure Leukaemia tournaments which forms part of the larger, FINISH IT! campaign that aims to fund a new trials network focused on paediatric leukaemia treatment.

“We are thrilled to be working in partnership with Siemens Healthineers and I am delighted to see how this relationship has developed in recent years with the Healthineers team engaging with the charity in many ways including our annual London 2 Paris cycle, with shirt and start/finish line sponsorship and a team of 17 riders, plus our “Your 14” campaign and hearing from our Patron, Geoff Thomas MBE at the head office. The team at Siemens Healthineers are making a fantastic contribution to support the TAP network.”

James McLaughlin, Cure Leukaemia Chief Executive