At the end of every year, Intertek employees in Geleen, Netherlands, nominate a charitable foundation to support. This year they chose and raised money for the foundation “Flower for charity”. This heart-warming charity has been nominated by Koen Cuijpers, his motivation: 

At Glanerbrook in Geleen, there is a cabin, 't Glanerbloempje, from which this foundation organizes various activities with volunteers: 

  • organise children's birthday parties for families who cannot afford this; 

  • Ukrainian refugees in Geleen, can enjoy a cup of coffee/tea with cake donated by local residents;  

  • during COVID lockdown, a cooking team was formed that regularly provide tasty meals for families with a tight budget; 

  • several times a week, people in need can also drop in for a cup of coffee/tea with cake, donated with love, and also for a chat, some visitors come to warm up because they can no longer afford the heating at home. 

 This foundation is completely dependent on donations for these activities, which is why a contribution from the Intertek Charity action was more than welcome! 

Feb 6th we handed over a huge amount of money - an amazing € 6,500 - which was raised by employees Intertek Polychemlab to Linda Adriaens and all her volunteers. Koen, Jeroen, Theo, Bernie, Coby and Jos were present from Intertek, we were nicely received by Linda and the volunteers. It is very special to see and feel how these people are committed to helping less privileged fellow human beings and children, making beautiful memories by, among other things, organising birthday parties. 

 How is it possible that Intertek Polychemlab can raise such an amazing amount every time? Well, like this: 

  • in the past we raised money using collection boxes where we usually accumulated 400 to 500 euros, which is a very nice amount; 

  • however, a few years ago we found out that in the Netherlands we can donate leave days/hours to a good cause, the advantage is that this can be done tax-free; 

  • this works as a donation accelerator and for years we have been donating more than 5000 euros per charity campaign; 

  • we are very proud of this as Intertek Polychemlab with approximately 200 employees. 

 On behalf of foundation “Flower for charity”, we thank all Intertek Polychemlab employees for their generous gifts. 

For more information, please contact Jos Bindels, Operations Manager Intertek.