Solidarity and corporate sponsorship

 « L'Envol, La Banque Postale's campus »

La Banque Postale is committed to societal sponsorship in favour of education and equal opportunities. To this end, in 2012 it created the 1901 law association ‘L'Envol, La Banque Postale's campus’, which fully involves employees by encouraging their civic commitment.

This initiative has been supported by the Ministry of National Education since it was launched, and its partnership was renewed in 2019. Its goal is to promote the schooling of young, talented students from low-income families from around France, including the overseas departments. It provides individual assistance, from the time they start high school until they enter higher general, technology or professional education (skilled trades) and/or they start to work.

Envol has created two programmes, ‘general and technology path’ and ‘career path’, which aim to achieve common objectives by adapting to the specifics of the training courses followed.

The ‘general and technology path’ programme, which started in 2012, sponsors 60 pupils each year from high school (third to last year students) through to graduate level (with three years of graduate studies on average), in partnership with the charity Article 1.

The ‘career path’ programme, which started in 2015, each year sponsors 45 students who have chosen superior vocational sectors (catering trade, metal working industry, art and fashion), in partnership with the association ‘Réussir Moi Aussi’.

Since it was created, L’Envol has sponsored 783 students, i.e. six ‘general and technology’ classes and four ‘career path’ classes. In 2020, the pass rate for the baccalaureate was 100%, including 88% with honours for the general baccalaureate and 96% with honours for the professional baccalaureate. Since 2012, over 1,000

 employees from La Banque Postale and the La Poste Group have volunteered for the mentors’ community.

For more information: the RA of the Envol (Pdf - 2,13 MO)

Covid-19: Civic initiatives of La Banque Postale and its subsidiaries

To deal with the health and economic consequences of the Covid-19 crisis, La Banque Postale and its subsidiaries have stepped up their solidarity actions: direct donations from La Banque Postale to the Pasteur Institute and to medical research, support from CNP Assurances for medical research on Covid (€200,000), for staff in healthcare establishments (€100,000 of ‘good meals for good care’), for students (€100,000), and a donation of 200,000 masks to hospitals and doctors.

In 2020, La Banque Postale also contributed to KissKissBankBank’s Stronger Together programme, which supported 190 solidarity projects in France during the health crisis. Goodeed, a subsidiary of KissKissBankBank for the collection of free donations for NGOs, supported the launch of seven solidarity campaigns. All these campaigns mobilised more than 500,000 donors and paid over €135,500 for all the Covid-19-related projects. 

Civic and innovative projects supported by La Banque Postale and KissKissBankBank & Co

  • The ‘Demain & Citoyen’ (Tomorrow & Citizen) call for projects: aims to support solidarity and innovative projects that meet the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
  • The ‘Atout Citoyen’ call for projects: supports and rewards businesses, associations and individuals who offer an innovative and solidarity-based solution to support people with disabilities and their families on a daily basis.
  • Game Cup, , the French independent video game cup, reveals and supports emerging video game talents.
  • The Social Cup : This programme created by KissKissBankBank, makesense and La Banque Postale, in partnership with the GRDF Foundation, has since 2014 been supporting and rewarding social and environmental projects carried out by young people aged 18 to 30 throughout France.

 

  • Yoummatter : the KissKissBankBank & Co group finalized in November 2021 the acquisition of Youmatter, both media, training organization and producer of content specialized in deciphering major social and environmental issues, available in French and English. The media, which has an audience of over 600,000 monthly visitors, sets itself the task of giving citizens and professionals better keys to understanding and acting in a world in transition around 9 key themes: citizen issues, economy, ecology, health, consumption, technologies, territories, work and education, energy and mobility.

Support for major solidarity initiatives

Driven by its civic values, La Banque Postale supports the Association Française contre les Myopathies (AFM) each year on the occasion of the telethon. In 2020, La Banque Postale, with the support of Goodeed, raised €565,520. Since 2011, more than €3,770,000 has been raised by La Banque Postale and donated to the association.

In addition, La Banque Postale is a partner of the Aids Solidarity association with which it shares commitment and solidarity values.

Lastly, in 2021, La Banque Postale participated for the third time in Duoday, an innovative initiative launched in 2016 and rolled out nationally under the initiative of the Secretary of State for Persons with Disabilities. It is a European action that raises awareness of the inclusion of disabled people in the world of work.