The LPP Foundation supports
The Foundation supports a wide group of people in need and organisations based in the region of Pomerania, where LPP’s headquarters and its distribution centre are located. We operate also in the region of Lesser Poland, in particular, in Cracow where House and Mohito offices are situated. In each region, we help children and young people facing difficult life circumstances and the sick. We also support organisations helping people at risk of social exclusion and health care centres. In 2018 only, the Foundation provided over PLN 1.5 million for supporting over 100 non-governmental organisations (in cash and in kind) and implementing volunteering initiatives of LPP employees.
WE SUPPORT ENTITIES AND PEOPLE IN THREE AREAS:
COUNTERACTING SOCIAL EXCLUSION
We have provided funds for organising summer holidays for over 50 children and young people in the Tri-City and Cracow and scholarships for 42 children supported by the Orphan Children’s Fund from Pomerania and Lesser Poland regions. We have also provided funds for purchasing multimedia products for a school nearby our head office in Gdańsk.
In this area, we cooperate mainly with: the Gdańsk Foundation for Social Innovations, the Rodzinny Gdańsk Foundation, the Nasz Dom Society, Children’s Homes in Cracow, the Hospice Foundation (in charge of the Orphan Children’s Fund).
HEALTH CARE
We have provided funds for purchasing medical equipment, supporting the sick, renovations and daily operations of health care centres. The main beneficiaries are: the Foundation of the Children’s University Hospital in Cracow, the foundation named Fundacja z Pompą – Help Children with Leukaemia, the Cancer Academy, the Pomerania for Children Hospice, the M. Płażyński Children’s Hospital in Gdańsk.
ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
We have provided funds for animal care, with our beneficiaries being the Mrs and Mr Dog Foundation and Pomorski Koci Dom Tymczasowy cat shelter. Supported by the LPP Foundation, LPP employees have carried out animal care projects as part of the corporate volunteering programme.
We have sponsored projects of a total value exceeding PLN 161 thousand, such as the LPP Fashion Illustration, the First Fitting, FETA.
We have donated over PLN 80 thousand in cash and gift cards of a value exceeding PLN 29 thousand.
In 2018, we cooperated with 108 organisations, having donated PLN 1 543 179 in cash and in kind.
RAISE MONEY BY RUNNING AND CYCLING. THE LPP TEAM FOR KIDS
The Foundation organised an exceptional sports event – the LPP Team for Kids. During the said event, every kilometre run or rode by our employees was exchanged for money. Money collected during the three-month challenge were donated to help children in orphanages in Gdańsk and Cracow. The sum collected was donated to the Rodzinny Gdańsk Foundation and the Siemacha Association in Cracow.
CYCLING COMPANY OF THE YEAR
In June 2018, we co-founded the Great Bike Ride in Gdańsk and we were awarded the title of Cycling Company of the Year. Our employees took part in the event together with the beneficiaries of the Gdańsk Foundation for Social Innovation. Children and young people rode bikes bought during the LPP Team for Kids event in 2017.
During a three-month period, 135 employees of LPP run or cycled almost 60 thousand kilometres, raising in total PLN 39,000 for children staying in orphanages in Gdańsk and Cracow.
TERMS OF COOPERATION
The LPP Foundation supports local, regional and national projects. The regions of Pomerania and Lesser Poland where our offices are located are of particular importance for us.
To make our activities efficient and effective, we cooperate with legal entities only.
All requests submitted to the LPP Foundation are analysed in detail, yet due to their large number, we reserve the right to contact chosen entities only.
A REQUEST FOR IN-KIND SUPPORT SHOULD INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:
- a written application signed by a person authorised to represent the organisation, specifying the donation purpose and a detailed description of needs, together with an approximate number of beneficiaries;
- KRS number of the organisation being the recipient of the donation;
- by-laws of the organisation.
WHO MAY RECEIVE OUR SUPPORT?
Organisations taking care of those in need, with due consideration of institutions operating in Pomerania and Lesser Poland regions:
- organisation providing continuous care for children and young people (orphanages, foster homes);
- organisation helping persons at risk of social exclusion (single mothers/families);
- organisations helping the sick or the disabled on a constant basis;
- organisations helping the homeless and providing assistance for victims of accidents, natural calamities and armed conflicts;
- organisations implementing community projects in the company’s neighbourhood or addressed to persons at risk of social exclusion.
We do not give donations to entities planning their further chargeable distribution.
You may contact us at: fundacja@lppsa.com
In 2018, we provided over 78 thousand items of clothing to 91 entities, of a value exceeding PLN 1 million.
OUR PROJECTS
ECO AWARE
ECO AWARE is a project aimed at collecting textiles in the largest Reserved stores in Poland. Each person visiting our stores may donate unneeded clothes by putting them into containers nearby cash desks. The label is irrelevant, it is important to make sure that clothes are in a good condition and may be reused. All items collected are delivered by the LPP Foundation to the St. Brother Albert Aid Society operating night shelters all over Poland. Clothes are distributed to the homeless and people facing life distress.
Being aware of human and environmental needs, we help prolong the life of textiles and enhance living conditions of those in need.
HOLIDAY LEISURE
Holidays are the time of leisure, relax and ease. Knowing that not everyone has a chance to spend holidays in that way, we try to help those in need. In 2018, we financially supported summer holidays for 60 children from orphanages in Tri-City and Cracow and groups of our immediate neighbours in Gdańsk.
SUPPORT FOR HEALTH CARE CENTRES FOR CHILDREN
Among us, there are very talented designers, architects and artists wanting with an open heart to be engaged in activities providing help for health care centres. Previously, we painted 3 day rooms for the youngest patients from different wards of the Polanki Children’s Hospital in Gdańsk. The foundation named Fundacja z Pompą received from us funds for purchasing beds and an air-conditioning device for the Paediatric Haematology and Oncology Ward.
In Cracow, we cooperate with the Paediatric Hospital in the Prokocim district. As a result, the youngest patients received equipment for kids corners and required recording equipment for the radiology ward.
Furthermore, in the said hospital, our employees play fairy tale characters giving children presents twice a year (on the Children’s day and the Saint Nicolas Day).
THE HOSPICE FOUNDATION
This is yet another time when we provide financial support to beneficiaries of the Orphan Children’s Fund. The project is aimed at providing psychological aid in mourning and economic assistance for families whose financial standing has deteriorated due to a loss of a family member. So far, the foundation has helped over 5.5 thousand people. In 2017 and 2018, we provided scholarships for 42 beneficiaries of the Fund. We have been also supporting the Foundation’s day-to-day activity.
ANIMAL CARE
We are sensitive not only to children’s fate but also to what happens to helpless animals.
For years, we have been providing our materials to insulate kennels, and our employees are eager to help animals.
Among us, there are persons actively engaged in the activities of foundations taking care of, among others, dogs, cats and wild animals.
Lately, jointly with Pomorski Koci Dom Tymczasowy cat shelter, our volunteers renovated and prepared for the upcoming season 12 cat shelters located in the old Gdynia Shipyard and the Nauta Shipyard.
The full 2019 report may be found here:
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