How Tempest Photography Raised Nearly £4,000 for Raise Your Hands

Over recent months, Tempest Photography has fundraised for Raise Your Hands’ critical work supporting disadvantaged children through other small charities.

The photography leaders created an exclusive charity photo pack for customers to purchase, with 5% of each sale going directly to Raise Your Hands. Between September 2024 and January 2025, the sale of the charity packs raised an impressive £3,172.70.

To boost this donation even further, Tempest Photography hosted a company raffle and bake sale, which raised another £750.

Tempest held this event in November, welcoming local Cornish businesses who donated delicacies for the bake sale and prizes for the raffle. These prizes included high-value activities like escape room experiences, cream tea afternoons, and overnight hotel stays.

Raise Your Hands’ Essential Work Supporting Children

Raise Your Hands directs much-needed funds to small charities that transform children’s lives but need more financial support. They welcome these under-recognised charities onto their platform, where companies and individuals who want to support organisations doing vital work can find them.

Placing a spotlight on these organisations is essential in the charity sector, where the biggest names with the biggest budgets receive most of the funding. Raise Your Hands notes that this is the case regardless of a charity’s effectiveness, which is why it selects British charities making a proven impact to share in its portfolio.

Over the past nine years, Raise Your Hands has raised over £2 million, worked with 24 corporate partners, and supported 17 small charities. These charities include:

1. The Literacy Pirates

The Literacy Pirates welcomes children who are falling behind at school to the “Hackney Ship”. Aboard, they can develop their literacy skills, confidence, and perseverance.

2. Jessie May

Jessie May provides hospice care at home to children who have terminal illnesses. With this support, children can receive end-of-life care in the comfort of their own homes.

3. Become

Become helps children in care and young care leavers receive the opportunities they need for their desired futures.

4. Empire Fighting Chance

Empire Fighting Chance supports young people facing adversity and disadvantage through a combination of non-contact boxing and intensive personal support.

5. Action for Conservation

Action for Conservation provides young people from a variety of backgrounds with the resources they need to become nature conservationists.

6. Dandelion Time

Dandelion Time supports children who are experiencing the effects of neglect, abuse, or trauma with therapeutic time in nature. Children spend time on the charity’s farm, both with the animals and enjoying crafts.

7. Kidscape

Kidscape educates young people, parents, and professionals on how to challenge all forms of abuse and bullying.

8. Chiva

Chiva implements efforts to improve health and social outcomes for children, young people, and families affected by HIV.

9. Switchback

Switchback helps young prison leavers build stable lives through intensive one-to-one support and real work training.

10. Go Live

Go Live provides theatre opportunities that may otherwise not be accessible to disabled and disadvantaged children.

11. Create

Create engages marginalised children in sustainable arts programmes to inspire them. It’s the UK’s leading charity in enriching lives through creative arts.

12. The Wave Project

The Wave Project delivers surf therapy to young people who are at risk of, or diagnosed with, a mental health issue, learning difficulty, or physical disability.

13. Storybook Dads

Storybook Dads allows parents in prison to record audio discs of them reading stories to their children.

14. Our Time

Our Time provides workshops and interventions through schools and healthcare settings to support children who have a parent with a mental illness.

15. Happy Baby Community

Happy Baby Community offers a safe space and support for mums who have fled violence or traffickers in other countries.

16. StreetDoctors

StreetDoctors teaches young people both about the physical and psychological impacts of street violence and how to provide first aid in an emergency.

17. BelEve

BelEve provides workshops, mentoring, and career guidance for girls to help them re-engage with education, gain work experience, and stand up for themselves.

Tempest Photography’s Q&A With Raise Your Hands

Tempest Photography is delighted to have supported an organisation doing such important work for children UK-wide. At the beginning of Tempest’s partnership with Raise Your Hands, the two organisations shared a conversation about the charity’s operations on the Tempest blog. 

In the Q&A, Raise Your Hands’ Partnerships Manager Madelaine Jones shared insights into the charity’s ethos, mission, challenges, and successes.

Read Tempest’s Q&A with Raise Your Hands.

About Tempest Photography

Tempest Photography offers a suite of photography services that capture memories and milestones across the UK. School, early years, graduation, military, and travel customers each receive outstanding-quality prints to share with loved ones.

Every year, Tempest processes 8.1 million images, including an average of 200,000 school portraits each day during the autumn term.