Social days

At Ikano Bank, we actively encourage our employees to use one paid working day per year to work for a local charity or in a local sustainability project. With this day, we want to increase employees' sustainability commitment and we encourage everyone to actively reflect on how we can give back to our society in a meaningful way.

Supporting local charities and initiatives

Our co-workers are actively involved in choosing which causes we support. They nominated and voted for the Children’s Bereavement Centre (CBC) to become our charity partner for 2020-23. They were asked to nominate charities close to their heart for the vote, in line with Ikano’s charity policy, which focusses on children and vulnerable adults in the local area. We aim to raise as much money as possible for the CBC through our co-workers’ fundraising endeavours and planned events, like an annual charity pub quiz. We’ll match pound-for-pound, anything raised for the CBC by our co-workers so that children and their families who are affected by terminal illness or death can access the support and guidance they need.