At SOS, corporate partnerships are the heartbeat of our mission to protect wildlife and promote sustainability. We collaborate with a diverse array of companies to discover shared purposes and forge alliances that benefit both your business and our goal: ensuring wild orangutans flourish in the resilient rainforests of Sumatra, Indonesia.
Partnering with SOS brings your ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) reporting to life, showcases your corporate social responsibility (CSR) commitment, and helps protect nature and biodiversity in some of the planet’s most vital rainforests.
By joining forces with us, you can:
Enhance your brand: Leverage authentic impact stories, professional images, and stunning wildlife footage of wild orangutans to boost sales, enhance marketing communications, and increase brand loyalty.
Donate to plant trees: Contribute to the Sumatran rainforest ecosystem, providing food and shelter for orangutans and supporting forest-edge entrepreneurs. Tree planting not only aids in reforestation but also fights climate change and promotes ecological balance.
Develop on-pack promotions: Drive sales, highlight your sustainability values, and generate donations to protect rainforests and orangutans. On-pack promotions can enhance product appeal and demonstrate your company’s commitment to environmental conservation.
Support aligned projects: Benefit from excellent communication content that builds your brand and meets CSR/ESG targets. Supporting projects that align with your business goals can amplify your corporate image and fulfill sustainability objectives.
Offer pro bono support: Provide specialist expertise to improve SOS operations, engaging your employees with a deeper sense of purpose. Pro bono support can increase employee engagement and promote a culture of giving back.
Our corporate partners make a daily difference in protecting, connecting, and rewilding vital rainforest landscapes, safeguarding the future for the rare Sumatran and Tapanuli orangutans, and combating climate change. Resilient rainforests are essential for biodiversity conservation, climate mitigation, and ecological health.
1% for the Planet is a global movement that inspires businesses and individuals to support environmental solutions through annual memberships and everyday actions. The Sumatran Orangutan Society is proud to be a recipient of support from 1% for the Planet, which significantly contributes to our mission of protecting the Sumatran orangutans and their rainforest habitat. This partnership enables us to expand our conservation efforts and make a greater impact in preserving these endangered species for future generations.
Work for Good is a platform designed to facilitate and encourage small businesses to support charitable causes through their work. It provides an easy and flexible way for businesses to donate a portion of their sales, profits, or services to charities of their choice. By simplifying the donation process and providing legal and marketing support, Work for Good enables businesses of all sizes to integrate philanthropy into their operations, thereby helping them to make a positive impact on society while also benefiting from increased customer loyalty and brand reputation.
Product partnerships involve collaborations where your business can commit a portion of your product sales or profits to support SOS’s conservation efforts. These partnerships are mutually beneficial, enhancing your brand’s reputation while providing essential funding for SOS’s work in protecting Sumatran orangutans and their habitat.
Typically, product partnerships might include:
Cause Marketing Campaigns: Businesses design special promotions or products where a percentage of the sales is donated to SOS. This could be a limited-edition item, a specific product line, or a seasonal campaign.
Co-branded Products: Companies create products featuring the SOS logo or imagery related to orangutan conservation. This not only raises funds but also spreads awareness about SOS’s mission.
Donations Per Sale: A fixed amount is donated to SOS for every product sold. This model is simple and transparent, making it easy for customers to understand their impact.
These collaborations are vital for SOS as they provide not only financial support but also increase visibility and public engagement with the cause, ultimately helping to protect Sumatran orangutans and their rainforest habitat.
The Sumatran Orangutan Society is a dedicated organisation working tirelessly to protect the critically endangered Sumatran orangutans and their rainforest habitat. By choosing SOS as your Charity of the Year partner, your business can play a crucial role in supporting conservation efforts, habitat restoration, and community education projects in Sumatra. This partnership not only helps safeguard these magnificent creatures and their environment but also demonstrates your company’s commitment to global environmental sustainability. Through engaging fundraising events and awareness campaigns, your team can make a significant impact, fostering a sense of unity and purpose while contributing to a vital cause.
Get your team involved in thrilling challenge events to support the Sumatran Orangutan Society. Organise dynamic team-based activities such as charity runs, bike rides, and exhilarating obstacle courses. As a business, you can fuel a spirit of friendly competition with enticing incentives like extra holiday days, gift vouchers, or exclusive prizes for top fundraisers. Or why not enhance motivation by offering matched donations, doubling the impact of every pound raised.
Prefer to join one of our events? Get ready for an action-packed 2025 by taking in part in any of the following:
Napa Valley Marathon, USA
London Landmarks, UK
Paris Marathon, France
Vienna Marathon, Austria
Manchester Marathon, UK
Hackney Half, UK
Edinburgh Marathon, UK
Unite your team with a shared sense of purpose, making a tangible difference and creating unforgettable memories along the way.
SOS and Lush have been working together for over 15 years to make a lasting impact on the future for Sumatra’s rainforests and its orangutans. In 2019 Lush created an orangutan soap to raise funds to help secure and restore a decommissioned palm oil plantation back to flourishing rainforest. To support their ethical sourcing policy, Lush now sources lemongrass from permaculture smallholdings in Sumatra. In 2022 Lush used this lemongrass along with Sumatran dark patchouli to create a limited edition orangutan bath bomb, sold across the globe to raise funds and awareness of the need to ensure connectivity in the rainforest landscape at West Toba so its remaining Sumatran orangutan population has enough space to move, feed and breed into the future.
Our partnership with Edrington is long term and strategic, with a focus on employee engagement. Their generous donations support the breadth of SOS’ protect, connect, rewild approach towards our vision of wild orangutans thriving in resilient rainforests. Edrington also helps to support the Leuser Nature School so primary age children can learn about the value of the rainforest for biodiversity and orangutans!
As peanut butter fans, we love our partnership with Whole Earth who are planting 50,000 trees through sales of their Golden Rainforest Peanut Butter. This special jar features illustrations of endangered wildlife in the Sumatran rainforest including orangutans, tigers and hornbills so look out for it on supermarket shelves!. The trees are planted by forest-edge communities to help secure the future for Sumatra’s precious biodiversity and to help in the fight against climate change.
“Bidu Bidu Books is a personalised children’s book publisher based in Bath. Our aim is to deliver affordable personalised books to everyone, because every child should know how special they are.
Our cheeky baby orangutan logo represents the love, care and fun we put into our books. We want to help protect these incredible creatures, and the planet we share with them, so we are delighted to be supporting SOS with the construction of new classrooms at the Leuser Nature School in Sumatra.
Everything we do celebrates all the amazing, funny and wonderful things about your children. Making them the hero of the story encourages their love of reading and develops their imagination. Our personalised books inspire children to aim high, dream big and believe in themselves.”
Bookwhen helps small businesses to succeed by providing great value booking software. They have recently become supporters of SOS with a donation towards our projects.
Dorset-based fine handmade chocolate company Chococo has created some fun and delicious chocolate orangutans, donating to SOS from each one sold. These funds are invested in planting cocoa trees at restoration and permaculture demonstration sites in Sumatra, which are supporting farming communities to adopt forest-friendly livelihoods.
Infinity Foods Wholesale is one of the UK’s leading national and international distributors of high quality, organic, biodynamic, fairtrade and natural products. Proud to be supporting SOS as part of its carbon offsetting.
MOOSE The Alpine Spirit is made in The Austrian Alps using Alpine botanicals and naturally sweetened with maple syrup from nature
Protecting nature is at the heart of the company’s ethos – that’s why they are partnering with SOS to plant 10 trees for each bottle of MOOSE sold.
By planting trees, the company’s aim is “to make a sizeable impact in the fight against climate change, saving the snow and preserving valuable biodiversity.“
SuperPetit is an eco-friendly French brand that specialises in anti-bacterial, 100% food-grade silicone placemats that kids can colour again and again.
“Our Wildlife collection is designed to raise kids’ awareness of endangered animals while having fun”, say co-founders Maud and Diane. “We joined 1% FOR THE PLANET so we could make a practical contribution and supporting SOS financially is a natural fit as we share the same values.”
TAMGA Designs is a sustainable lifestyle movement, born out of the need for a positive example in fashion. They believe in a bright future for style, people and the planet, so they create clothing that celebrates all three. TAMGA donates 10% to S.O.S from every sale of a ‘Trees Please Tee’, along with 1% of all sales through 1% For the Planet.
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