5. SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN BUSINESS, 5.8. Summary of achievement of social (S) area goals in 2023, 5.8.3. Charitable and sponsorship activities
5.8.3. Charitable and sponsorship activities
[GRI 3-3] [Own indicator 5]
The Budimex Group companies are happy to become actively involved in charitable activities and additionally run sponsorship projects. The document regulating this area of their activities is the Instruction for approving sponsorship or patronage projects and donations.
In 2023, companies helped those in need, especially as part of programs they initiated in previous years and of long-term cooperation with local non-governmental organizations and public institutions.
BUDIMEX SA
Parent Zone
The Parent Zone is a Poland-wide social program initiated and financed in full by the company. As part of activities undertaken in pediatric wards in hospitals throughout Poland, space is created by appropriately arranging premises or sections of corridors which are not in use for the youngest patients to spend time with their parents, forget about their illnesses and discover the world through play. The project has also a broader dimension – it promotes emotional and health benefits arising from the family involvement in care over a treated child. It is carried out with the participation of Budimex SA employees who become engaged as volunteers in arranging these zones e.g. by performing minor fit-out works. In 2023, we created a Parent Zone in a hospital in Ełk. The program’s website: https://strefarodzica.budimex.pl.
Home from the Heart
Another edition, being already the third edition, of the Home from the Heart program was started in 2023, The purpose of the program is to support families affected by housing and financial problems. This time, Budimex SA, supported by other construction companies and volunteers from the Budimex Group companies, is building a modern and environmentally friendly modular house for Teresa who has become homeless as a result of fire. The house, fully fitted out and equipped, will be delivered in spring 2024.
More information on the initiative can be found at: https://domzserca.pl.
Hello ICE
The Hello ICE education initiative is also an authorship initiative. It consists in organizing interesting, interactive lessons on safety, during which preschoolers and primary schoolers learn appropriate behavior on the road and are taught to provide first aid. In 2023, the subject matter of the project was extended to include knowledge on how to safely ride roller skates, scooters or electric bicycles. In the aforementioned year, over 20 thousand children from various education establishments took part in a total of 160 meetings with Budimex SA volunteers and the police and fire service representatives.
More information about the initiative under the honorary patronage of the Minister of Sports and Tourism can be found at: https://helloice.pl.
Support for other initiatives and entities
In 2023, Budimex SA continued to co-finance the Diamond Explorers scholarship program, which is aimed at providing financial support to talented and effectively operating groups of young people, to make it possible for them to participate in prestigious nation-wide and international exact and engineering science competitions. More information about the project can be found at: https://odkrywcydiamentow.com.pl.
Budimex SA continued, in the preceding year, its assistance activities addressed to young people facing difficult life circumstances, by providing funds to finance the activities of the Demos Foundation which arranges for premises for conducting pedagogic, educational, therapeutic and sports activities, as well as organizes scholarship programs and workshops for youth leaders. The company also supports the purchase of school equipment and the organization of educational tournaments and holiday rest for school students in areas fighting poverty in the following voivodships: Warmińsko-Mazurskie, Mazowieckie, Podlaskie and Łódzkie, as well as the operation of volunteer fire-fighting teams. Other areas of the company’s engagement in 2023 included, among other things, assistance to Polish Army soldiers injured while on military missions abroad and to their families, the development of youth sports and the protection of the historic Powązki Cemetery.
In the year covered by the report, Budimex SA also supported the Foundation for the Development of the University of Gdańsk which is responsible for the maritime station and seal center in Hel. As part of the cooperation, the seal rehabilitation center received a sophisticated biochemistry analyzer. The equipment will considerably reduce the waiting time for blood test results which will significantly increase chances to save treated animals.
MOSTOSTAL KRAKÓW SA
In 2023, charitable, social, cultural, research and sports initiatives addressed to the local community received support from the company in the form of donations. The company supported the statutory activities of a total of 21 entities. Moreover, Mostostal Kraków SA sponsored the girls’ volleyball team UKS Jedynka Kluczbork. The correctness and transparency of the company’s engagement was ensured by the Committee for Donations appointed in it, which each time gave consent to the company’s participation in a given initiative. Charitable and sponsorship activities are regulated in Operating instruction IO(MK)-01-05-08.
The company participated in a total of 36 pro-social projects in 2023 (apart from charitable projects they included e.g. information campaigns), organized at the initiative of employees, local governments, care and education centers for children and young people and hospitals and at the invitation of business partners. The company’s objective for the year was to double the number of pro-social projects and expenditures. The objective was met.
FBSERWIS GROUP
In 2023, the FBSerwis Group provided financial support to, among others, the following categories of entities:
- firefighting stations (operated by volunteer teams and by the national firefighting service),
- education and foster care centers,
- local cultural centers,
- sports clubs,
- organizations arranging local communities or promoting culture or sports,
Total expenditure of the Budimex Group for social purposes
The total of all donations made by Budimex SA in 2023 was approximately PLN 1.28 million, with a total value of all sponsorship projects of the company over that period reaching PLN 1.79 million. The FBSerwis Group companies provided approximately PLN 129 thousand in the form of donations and approximately PLN 118 thousand as part of sponsorship projects, whereas Mostostal Kraków SA provided, respectively, PLN 185 thousand as donations and PLN 200 thousand as part of sponsorship projects.
Figure: Expenditure of the Budimex Group for social purposes
