In 2011 Sofina and its family shareholders founded the SofinaBoël Fund for Education and Talent with an annual budget of approximatively EUR 1 m.
The Fund has identified three intervention areas:
1. Granting scholarships to students from Belgian universities to enable them to complete their education at a renowned university abroad.
2. Granting scholarships to talented young Belgian craftsmen to support their training in the heritage arts.
3. “Boost for Talents” to help the transition between secondary school and higher education or university for teenagers from socially deprived environments.
Since 2020, Sofina has supported the Temple Garden Foundation, an organisation active in the field of education in Cambodia, in which employees from the Singapore office are actively involved.
In the framework of the Covid-19 pandemic, Sofina supported an Indian initiative led by local investment players, Action Covid-19 Team (ACT Grants).
In 2020, Sofina launched the Sofina Covid Solidarity Fund, a EUR +20 m aimed at addressing the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on a global scale. Over a three-year period, the fund supported 15 projects out of more than 150 proposals. Sofina’s employees played an active role in selecting these projects, focusing on two key challenges directly linked to Sofina’s sectors of focus: specific pressures on healthcare systems and services, and the digital divide in the education sector.
Our communities
Our community actions
Local volunteering programme
We cultivate our “One Team” mindset through team-based volunteering initiatives. Sofina also enables its employees to support charitable organisations during working hours. When a volunteering day takes place outside working hours and involves at least two employees, Sofina commits to donating EUR 500 to the organisation.
Matching gift programme
Sofina undertakes to match the donations made by its employees to charties up to an amount of EUR 500 per year per employee.
Internal collections and recycling
Internal collections of clothes, toys and food are organised across our offices and donated to charities.
Collections of IT equipment are also organised to ensure its recycling, for example in collaboration with non-profit organisations which commit to planting one tree or preserving 1 m² of forest for each device collected.