Delta Lloyd

Financial awareness

As a group, we aim to give our customers a secure financial future. We go about this in various ways – by offering traditional insurance, and by offering products that meet customers’ immediate, near-term and long-term needs.

We want to raise our customers’ financial awareness through information and education, as well as by helping them find solutions to their financial problems. One way we do this is through our sponsorship, charity and donation policy.

Delta Lloyd Group Foundation

As part of this, we set up the Delta Lloyd Group Foundation in 2008. We support initiatives aimed at preventing or resolving financial problems. Amongst other things, we’re co-sponsor of the ‘Geldkoffer voor Scholieren’, an educational package developed by NIBUD, the Dutch National Institute for Public Information on Budgeting, to teach schoolchildren how to manage their finances.

We also provide resources and manpower for the IMC Weekend School in Amsterdam-Zuidoost, where motivated 10 to 14-year-olds can familiarise themselves with art and science disciplines.

The Foundation funds the provision of personal financial advice to customers of the Voedselbank (Charity Food Centre). And we sponsor the Money Museum in Utrecht, including a project aimed at giving young people from deprived backgrounds a taste of working life.

Our employees play an active role in these initiatives. In 2008, staff were encouraged to make a contribution to one of the foundation's projects, varying from giving classes at a weekend school through compiling learning packs covering financial subjects, to coaching young people and giving one-on-one advice to customers of the Voedselbank.

Other sponsorship projects

We support various cultural and social organisations in the Amsterdam area, including Artis Zoo, the Week of Sustainable Amsterdam, the Stedelijk Museum (modern art), the Amsterdam Historical Museum, the Maritime Museum and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra.

• Each year since 1994, the Joop Swart Masterclass has been organised by Stichting World Press Photo, giving young talented photo journalists from different countries an opportunity to test their work against the criteria of renowned photographers. The Group sponsors the masterclass.
• Since 2005 the Museon, an educational museum for children in The Hague, has been home to a permanent exhibition entitled ‘Your World, My World’. This exhibition shows how rich our world is in natural and cultural diversity and the role people can play in preserving this. Children are invited to build their own world, encouraging them to think about how we look after the world we live in. Delta Lloyd Group sponsors this exhibition. The exhibition was accompanied by the launch of the deshowvanjeleven (Lifeshow) website, whose specific purpose is to generate financial awareness among 8 to 12-year-olds.
• Delta Lloyd Bank Belgium and Delta Lloyd Belgium are partners of the Festival of Flanders – Klara Festival. This annual international music festival in Brussels is one of the most prestigious held in the Belgian capital.
• The Valid Express courier service employs chronically ill and disabled people. By supporting and using the services of Valid Express, Delta Lloyd Group promotes equal opportunities for the physically challenged as well as their financial independence.
• Delta Lloyd is a sponsor of the Ronald McDonald Child Fund, an organisation that provides accommodation for parents near to hospitals where their children have been admitted.
• Every year we organise two trips for customers who are chronically ill or disabled – a pilgrimage by train or plane to Lourdes and a boat trip on the Red Cross Cruise Ship J Henry Dunant. We also arrange an annual boat trip on the Willem Alexander hospital ship for young people with a serious physical or mental handicap.
• Since its launch in 2005, we’ve given the ‘Wiesbaden engagiert’ initiative in Germany funding and manpower support. Staff from various local companies spend one day a year helping out with social projects.
• The Young Entrepreneurs Foundation enables students at intermediate and higher vocational levels to form a management team and run their own business. The aim is to bridge the gap between entrepreneurship in theory and practice. Delta Lloyd is one of the sponsors and also supplies mentors (Delta Lloyd managers) for a number of teams.
• Delta Lloyd is the official partner of the KNWV (Royal Netherlands Water Sports Association) and chief sponsor of Delta Lloyd Kernploeg, the Olympic yachting team. We also sponsor major sailing events, like the 24-Hour Sailing Race, the Delta Lloyd Regatta and the Open Dutch Championships for the Olympic and Paralympic Sailing Classes.
• Delta Lloyd Belgium has a highly successful, long-standing partnership with the Flemish Tennis Association, making us the leading tennis sponsor in Belgium.
• Delta Lloyd Bank Belgium is also a long-term partner of the Royal Belgian Hockey Association and provides funding for events such as the ‘Delta Lloyd FairPlay Challenge’. The national men's hockey team took part in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.