SUSTAINABILITY & GOVERNANCE 120 SUSTAINABILITY REPORT Action Across Hotels • W Singapore – Sentosa Cove Singapore Throughout the year, staff volunteered at Singapore-based non-profit organisations Community Chest Fu Dai, Willing Hearts and Food from the Heart, to provide support in areas such as packing items and food preparation. Additionally, they also contributed to Food from the Heart’s donation drives and the 2023 Toy Buffet, a charity festival for young beneficiaries. Donations also went to Club Rainbow, which supports children with chronic illnesses and low-income families, and Road to Give – an annual charity run and the Community Chest donation drive. • Copthorne King’s Hotel and M Hotel To support communities across various walks and beneficiary groups, staff members fromCopthorne King’s Hotel and M Hotel participated in the Hong Leong Foundation annual charity event (a wellness workout programme with the elderly), the Assisi Hospice Fun Day 2023 to raise funds to support patients with terminal illnesses and their families, the Community Chest Heartstrings walk to support communities in need and the Run for Hope. Copthorne King’s Hotel also participated in the Community Chest 40th Anniversary Charity TV Show Community Project: Trees of Hope and GAC Singapore Tree Planting Day. • Hilton Cambridge City Centre The hotel’s donations over the year included raising funds for various charity organisations, donating over 100kg of clothes, shoes and toys to Emmaus charity, providing support to homeless people, collecting food items for the Food Bank, and toiletries for Clean the World Charity. They also collaborated with local charity partner, Spectrum, to provide a safe space for children with autism and volunteered at Cambridge’s Papworth Trust to help at the local community centre. • Angsana Velavaru Angsana Velavaru participated in various environmental and social initiatives throughout the year. This included education-related initiatives including conducting camps and classes and providing stationary packages and environmental initiatives from beach clean-ups and awareness programs. • Raffles Maldives Meradhoo Raffles Maldives Meradhoo collaborated with various partners to support and celebrate various beneficiaries within the community – staff partnered with the local school of Nadela to celebrate their teachers during Teachers Day, invited doctors from the nearby island Hospital for an awareness exchange and staff diabetes screening during World Diabetes Day and celebrated women within the company during Women’s Day on 8th March. They also participated in multiple reef cleanings throughout the year to further reef conservation in the Maldives, mobilised volunteers in partnership with a local NGO Parley for Ocean and also participated in a friendly football match with local schools. Our Targets The target for the portfolio is to conduct at least 15 community/social events or projects in FY 2024.
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