Our responsibility to support charities
We support numerous charities at both a local and a global level, especially focusing on child welfare. As part of our commitment we encourage our employees to take part in charitable events and donate to charities of their own choice.
Accor Services UK offers the option of payroll giving, to help engage our employees with charitable activities. This allows them to select their own charity and donate money from their salary – which we then match.
We’re also committed to working with like-minded companies that take their role in the community seriously. In the UK, we make a contribution for every Eyecare Voucher we sell to the
Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB). In 2008 this amounted to more than £20,000: you can read more at our
Eyecare Voucher website Globally, we support
Plan International, one of the largest international development agencies in the world, active in 49 developing countries across Africa, Asia and the Americas.
In 2008, Accor Group set up a
global foundation to support and develop our employees’ solidarity-based initiatives. The mission of the foundation is: “Linking cultures and providing support for the development of individuals and their integration into the community” and it has three focuses:
- Initiatives that encourage local know-how, culture and heritage
- Support for underprivileged young people
- Involvement in humanitarian action and emergency programmes
