Volunteering together - doing good together
In addition to state and private economic and social systems, our world needs the personal commitment of as many people as possible. Böllhoff has been promoting this voluntary commitment since 2010 and has launched the "Volunteering together" initiative for this purpose.
Living social responsibility
The clubs, institutions and activities that our employees support in their free time are as diverse as our employees themselves. We not only want to acknowledge this important social commitment, we also want to provide practical help with our corporate initiative "Volunteering together". To this end, we support the social work of our employees with additional donations. Over the past 14 years, we have been able to support numerous projects in line with our motto "doing good together". "Volunteering together" deliberately does not focus on a specific topic - diversity is important. This can also be seen in the now long list of projects we support, which ranges from projects with educational institutions or sports clubs to a wide variety of charity events and fundraising campaigns to refugee aid. Here we present 5 practical examples from recent years:
- School of hope
- Table tennis club
- Community centre
- Balance beam
- Alpine rally
In the city of East London on South Africa's east coast, the First City Baptist Church runs the donation-funded Hope School for HIV-positive children. A Böllhoff employee spent 10 days on site supporting the project and, thanks to "Volunteering together", had many lovely gifts in her luggage.
An employee at our Leipzig location does valuable work with children and young people at the table tennis club Holzhausen e.V. Keeping such a club going, which is dedicated to a marginal sport, requires a lot of energy and initiative. Clearly a case for "Volunteering together". Thanks to the funding, new training equipment such as a new ball machine could be purchased.
The Giraffenland e.V. association runs a meeting centre of the same name in Löhne - founded in 2006 by our employee Arno Hummel, his wife and a few fellow campaigners. The aim of the association is to create a feel-good place for children and families to meet and play together. Thanks to "Volunteering together", a new climbing castle was built for this purpose.
More movement during the break at Widukind-Gymnasium in Enger. A new balance beam was installed with the help of "Volunteering together". The contact came about through our employee Heinrich Eschengerd, who is a volunteer on the board of the support association. The picture shows Heinrich Eschengerd, his son Tobias and sports teacher Boris Lenz (from left to right).
Experience an adventure and do something good at the same time. That was the goal of our employee Alexander Scherzer, who drove his Volvo over Europe's most spectacular mountain passes for five days. Beforehand, each participant had to collect donations for a good cause - in our case for the Gütersloh animal shelter.
»"Voluntary work is an important pillar of social life. That's why we are proud of our employees, many of whom take on important tasks - for example in clubs and associations, schools or the volunteer fire department."
Application made easy
Any employee who is committed to a social project can easily apply for our financial support. All they need to do is send an email to the company management with a brief description of their commitment and the purpose of the donation. The company management meets regularly and discusses the applications received. The selected projects are then supported with up to 500 euros.
