Our programmes

At PwC, we make social responsibility a top priority area for us. In addition to donations and sponsorship, we cultivate long-term relationships with organisations. We have maintained relationships with the following six non-profit organisations for several years: the Csodalámpa Foundation, the Salva Vita Foundation, the Hungarian Parasport Association, the Kovács Zoltán Foundation Kindergarten, Smiling Hospital Foundation and the Pikler Institute.

Thanks to our helpful colleagues and senior staff, we have already participated in several events:

• We provided financial support for the building of a playground that meets EU standards at the Kovács Zoltán Foundation Kindergarten in Csepel, and even rolled up our sleeves to pitch in with the work. This kindergarten serves children from disadvantaged backgrounds. In cooperation with Praktiker, we painted the kindergarten’s fence, planted flowers, and put lids on children’s sandboxes.
• We visited the AUDI plant in Győr with the children living at the Esze Tamás Children’s Home and organized a day trip to the Railway Museum in Budapest.
• Since 2008, we have participated in the Salva Vita Foundation’s Work Experience Programme, within which we provide work in our office to young people with minor mental disabilities.
• We supported the trip of the Hungarian Parasport Association’s athletes to the Global Games 2009 (Liberec, Czech Republic). On behalf of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Nikoletta Pápai aided communication between the teams and the organizers, and helped coordinate at the venue. PwC in Prague also supported the Association by providing Czech mobile phones, which greatly facilitated local communication between the teams.
• Our hikers have already been to the countryside near Esztergom, to Pilis and in the hills of the Börzsöny, where they have painted footpath markers and cleaned the paths.
• Every year, we collect Christmas shoeboxes full of gifts. Our colleagues donate around 100 Christmas shoeboxes to help poor families through the Hungarian Baptist Church organisation.
• For two years, we have helped decorate the walls of children’s wards before Christmas in order to cheer up sick children during their hospital stays. Within the organization of the Csodalámpa Foundation, we have decorated children's wards at Szent László Hospital, at the SOTE Children’s Clinic No. 1 in Bókay Street and at the Children’s Clinic in Tűzoltó Street.
• We have donated some used laptops to the Csodalámpa Foundation, fulfilling the wish of some very sick children.
• Our volunteers help to translate the stories of the wishes the Csodalámpa Foundation has fulfilled into English and German, which are then published on the Foundation’s website.
• We provide pro bono* annual audit services to four foundations (the Csodalámpa Foundation, the Salva Vita Foundation, Smiling Hospital Foundation and the Budapest Festival Orchestra Foundation).
  * Pro bono work means offering services without compensation or for a nominal fee, in order to help a non-profit organisation. Pro bono is an abbreviation of the Latin phrase pro bono publico – "for the public good".
• We organize blood donation drives several times a year in our office. As an incentive, we provide participating colleagues with a substantial breakfast.
• Some of our staff have participated in the Cycle to Work campaign. They formed groups with five members each, and each group cycled an average of 800 km to work in one month.
• We have collected clothes and household equipment to distribute among families in need and homeless people.
• We have also participated in the global event Earth Hour: we turned off the lights in the office building and the background of our website was also dark for an hour. We also encouraged our colleagues to join us.
• During office refurbishment, we replaced the black and white historical pictures of Budapest cityscapes in our hallways and meeting room. Those framed photos were auctioned among the colleagues, and we spent the proceeds of almost HUF 1 million on our CR programmes.
• We collected the 1 and 2 forint coins that were withdrawn from circulation. We purchased development tools from the tidy sum of the proceeds and donated them to the Specialist and Child Protection Institution of Kecskemét Municipality to help children with disabilities.
• We supported the stem cell treatment of two children (Máté in Tengelic and Hajnika in Úri) by collecting and recycling bottle caps.
• We have supported the charity concerts of the Salva Vita Foundation and All Nations Lions Club.