We believe that now, more than ever before, it’s important to build and maintain relationships with other people. By encouraging our “citizen-employees” to engage in the community, we want them to forge interpersonal, intergenerational, and intercommunity relationships, and ultimately build a more caring world.

Under our skills-sharing programme, employees can volunteer during their working hours with one of our partner non-profits for 1 to 10 days a year.

Since 2022, employees can also commit to helping a partner non-profit for a period ranging from 6 months to a maximum of 2 years.

This experience builds communities and forges bonds between people—it’s a source of pride and motivation for our employees. Through it, they enrich their professional experience, highlight their skills, and bring personal convictions and community values into their everyday jobs.

At SNCF Foundation, we encourage all our employees to engage—and we’ve incorporated this goal into our corporate strategy,Tous SNCF (an SNCF for all). Employees can volunteer based on their availability and areas of interest.

SNCF managers can put their team’s expertise to good use by engaging them in a specific project for a non-profit. Participating in a community service project outside their usual working environment is a valuable and enriching experience—it can even inspire participants to volunteer individually on projects sponsored by the Foundation.

Our Outreach Days unite employees behind specific causes: the environment, food insecurity, and young people.

Learn more about the Youth Outreach Days

We support the Collectif Mentorat initiative to promote and develop mentoring programs in France. Our employees use its “1 jeune, 1 mentor” (one young person, one mentor) platform to connect with young people seeking mentorship and help them with their schooling, studies or career plans.

We want to recruit 1,000 mentors by 2025. Employees are trained by non-profits before becoming mentors and find it a richly rewarding experience. Not only are their skills highly valued, but they also feel they are serving the greater good.

Our skills-sharing programme also means we can respond to requests posted year-round by our partner non-profits on the “Engagement Citoyen” (civic engagement) platform. People with very specific skills (communication, legal, HR, technical, etc.) are needed for these assignments, and our employees can apply with their manager’s approval.

A lot of SNCF Group employees volunteer with a non-profit in their spare time. The SNCF Foundation rewards their efforts by providing funding for the non-profit schemes they support through the “Coups de Cœur Citoyens” programme. Inspired by the momentum generated by the 2024 Olympics, the Foundation will award “Coups de Cœur Citoyens” funding to non-profit projects that use sport to foster community engagement, social outreach and the green transition—it will reward projects involving people with disabilities the Guy Crescent Prize.