In 2020, the Covid pandemic showed how far-reaching our work is, and how vital it is for our employees to partner with non-profits. For the 5-year period 2021-2025, we’ve focused our mission on young people.

Our annual budget of €4.5 million has 2 priorities: young people who need support to build their lives in the workplace and their communities, and young people with ideas for local environmental projects. Keeping employees engaged through our skills-sharing programme is another vital area of our work.

We serve the public interest, strengthening the social fabric and building caring communities. The work we do and the projects we support are tied closely to our values—respect, engagement and integrity.

These focus areas respond to critical social challenges and are in keeping with SNCF’s public service mission and its values of engagement, efficiency and openness.

We’re committed to meeting real needs in real communities, so we rely on a network of 15 regional representatives who know the issues and the players on the ground. We rely on them to forge partnerships with non-profits and track our projects.

At community level, we work with our non-profit partners to serve the public interest, offering advice, evaluating projects, identifying strong non-profit partners, and providing legal and tax support.

We support our partner non-profits by offering them the skills of our workforce. Several thousand SNCF Group employees are already doing useful work for the common good during or outside their working hours.

Above all, our skills-sharing programme is about the experience of building community and forging bonds between people. It’s also a source of pride and motivation for the SNCF volunteers who take part.

Just as SNCF Group does business worldwide, the Foundation can fund and co-create projects that benefit young people and the environment in communities around the world, working with local employees and the non-profit network.

The Board of Directors sets the Foundation’s strategy and chooses our focus areas, in addition to overseeing major programmes, adopting the budget and approving our annual report and financial statements. The list of directors includes SNCF Board members, employee representatives and other qualified individuals.

The national team carries out the Foundation’s strategy and coordinates its partners at regional, national and international level.

Our network of regional representatives manages the Foundation’s programmes on the ground.