Stimulating Social Impact & Well-Being

Being a Good Corporate Citizen

For us, being a good corporate citizen comes naturally. Building trust and lasting relationships with community stakeholders supports long-term growth, both for our company and for our clients. Equally important, our people are at home in the towns and cities where our properties are located, and they are proud to help create new opportunities for their communities. Our parks don’t just create jobs, they bring people together, and together people can do some amazing things. We are proud of our reputation in our markets for positive social engagment, charity and education support.

Education

We believe education is essential for growing healthy, strong communities. Our support for education comes in many shapes and sizes, from direct financial support to arranging site visits at our parks for students, so that they can learn more about what it means to build and operate a modern business park and what goes on there. We routinely engage with local technical universities and promote knowledge transfer and job fairs. We support student architectural competitions and other initiatives with local students to engage them and prepare them for their future careers.

Charity

Giving back to those less fortunate in our communities is simpy the right thing to do, and we’ve been doing it since our launch a quarter-century ago. We seek long-term partnerships with reputable and effective local organisations to have the greatest possible impact. For example, we are proud to be a long-term sponsor of the Tereza Maxová Foundation in the Czech Republic, which works to assist abandoned and at-risk children. In Romania, we are long-term supporters of HOSPICE Casa Sperantei, which provides palliative care to patients with advanced illness and support for their families. In 2022, in response to the war in Ukraine, we donated €10 million to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to assist those displaced by the conflict. We also donated warehousing space for relief supplies in our markets that border Ukraine, and provided accommodation for refugees at our Domeq residences at Ponavka in Brno.

We continuously seek opportunities to make a difference in the countries we operate. From blood donation campaigns to workshops empowering women in logistics, we’re devoted to creating a positive impact inside and around our business parks. Our dedication to social responsibility is demonstrated through ongoing endeavours that touch lives and embody our values. Through these heartfelt undertakings, we aim to embody the principles of empathy and compassion, fostering a spirit of solidarity that resonates across borders.

Our CEO Remon Vos, his wife Carolien Vos and their family share the same charitable values as CTP. Their commitment to creating a positive impact is reflected in a range of initiatives that touch lives across various domains. In Uganda, they have partnered with the UN Refugee Agency to sponsor scholarships, facilitating secondary education for girls returning to school, and supporting refugee students in camps. Closer to home, the family provided scholarships at UWC Atlantic College, donated 3.5 million to The Maggie’s Center in Groningen, the first social house for psychologic help for people with cancer in the Netherlands, and supports sports education for children through the Sven Kramer Academy.

Sport

We are naturally competitive at CTP and are therefore passionate about the power of sport to bring people together and contribute to a healthy lifestyle—physically, mentally and socially. During the year we organise various sporting and other outdoor events at our parks for our clients’ employees and the wider community. We also support competitive events, like the half-iron man DoksyRace triathlon in the Czech Republic, and we sponsor youth teams in many of our communities. We provide free memberships to gyms and other sports facilities to our employees and also organise several company-wide social and sporting events during the year.