The Caring Company Scheme 2024/25 - Latest Application Arrangements
The Caring Company Scheme 2024/25 - Nominator Account Application (for NGO only)

Statistics

5,244 nominations received from 4,408 companies and organisations with 485 social service organisations. 35% of companies and organisations that proactively support and corporate social responsibility more than 10 years and 98 companies and organisations are more than 21 years.

Through partnerships with charitable organisations, companies / organisations engaged in community involvement projects, generating over HK$400 million in donations:

  • 170,000 hours of employee volunteering;
  • Over 9,000 job opportunities and training offered to vulnerable groups;
  • 25% of companies and organisation using products from social enterprises and 5,000 purchases made which amount to around HK$7,800,000.
 

Total no. of awardees in 2022/23: 4,408

  • No. of awardees that published a stand-alone sustainability report: 223
  • No. of awardees that set up a charitable foundation in Hong Kong: 155
  • No of listed companies: 395

Statistics on the Caring Company Scheme (No. of awardees each year)

Total no. of awardees from 2002/03 to 2022/23

Total no. of awardees in 2022/23: 4,408

  • 1 Year:674[15%]
  • 2-9 Years:2,174[49%]
  • 10 Years:175[4%]
  • 11-14 Years:576[13%]
  • 15 Years:137[3%]
  • 16-19 Years:485[11%]
  • 20 Years:89[2%]
  • 21 Years:98[2%]

Statistics on the Nominators 2022/23

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Total no. of nominators in 2022/23: 485 (249 are from non HKCSS agency members)
Total no. of nomination: 5,244

Service Scope from non HKCSS agency members

  • Cultural, Recreational & Sports
    [2%]
  • Labour
    [2%]
  • Youth
    [18%]
  • Children
    [17%]
  • Community
    [13%]
  • Education
    [11%]
  • Elderly
    [11%]
  • Rehabilitation
    [3%]
  • International and Cross-boundary
    [5%]
  • Health
    [5%]
  • Environmental Protection
    [9%]
  • Women
    [4%]

Caring for the Community

Achievements in Caring for the Community

  • Volunteering
    3,081 (70%)
  • Giving
    3,819 (87%)
  • Mentoring
    1,301 (29%)
  • Employing the vulnerable
    890 (20%)
  • Procurement of products or services provided by social service organisations or social enterprises
    1,002 (23%)

Volunteering

YearApproximate total no. of hours of employee volunteeringNo. of awardees engaging in employee volunteering
2013/14 231,740 2,230
2014/15 180,710 2,445
2015/16 208,252 2,639
2016/17 213,884 2,838
2017/18 208,524 2,932
2018/19 219,895 3,147
2019/20 215,111 2,966
2020/21 162,125 3,491
2021/22 188,455 3,604
2022/23 176,739 3,896

 

Mentoring

YearNo. of awardees sharing expertise with NGOs
2013/14 1,096
2014/15 1,092
2015/16 1,157
2016/17 1,147
2017/18 1,144
2018/19 1,216
2019/20 1,141
2020/21 1,159
2021/22 1,262
2022/23 1,310

 

Employing the vulnerable

YearNo. of training and job opportunities offered to vulnerable groupsNo. of awardees providing training or jobs for vulnerable groups
2013/14 9,809 1,082
2014/15 8,153 1,043
2015/16 9,866 1,267
2016/17 9,637 1,245
2017/18 8,847 1,278
2018/19 10,352 1,464
2019/20 9,233 1,391
2020/21 8,426 1,244
2021/22 8,699 1,391
2022/23 9,222 890

 

Supporting Social Enterprise

YearNo. of awardees using products from social enterprises
2013/14 557
2014/15 647
2015/16 690
2016/17 685
2017/18 764
2018/19 923
2019/20 948
2020/21 946
2021/22 970
2022/23 1,002

 

Service Target in Volunteering

  • Children and Youth
    1,495
  • Elderly
    1,188
  • Family and Community
    1,080
  • Persons with disabilities
    515
  • Rehabilitants
    424
  • New Arrivals
    193
  • Ethnic Minority
    149
  • Others
    820

 

Approximate no. of purchases of products or services provided by social enterprises made by awardees: 4,900

  • Retail Products
    375[37%]
  • Training
    144[14%]
  • Cleaning Service
    42[4%]
  • Catering Service
    274[27%]
  • Employee Assistance Programme
    98[10%]
  • Consultation Service
    37[4%]

Caring for the Employees

Achievements in Caring for the Employees


Over 60% awardees providing following facilities or policies for staff

  • Paid annual leave*
    3,684[84%]
  • Well-established internal communication
    3,344[76%]
  • Marriage leave*
    3,020[69%]
  • Compassionate leave*
    2,981[68%]
  • Full-paid sick leave*
    2,889[66%]
  • Medical insurance / allowance*
    2,869[65%]
  • Five-day work week
    2,809[64%]
  • The occupational safety and health policy
    2,794[63%]
*Going beyond the “Employment Ordinance”

Around 50% awardees providing following facilities or policies for staff

  • Compensation leave for overtime work*
    2,506[50%]
  • Festival leave*
    2,409[56%]
  • Flexi-working hours
    2,470[56%]
  • Training course for employees
    2,356[53%]
  • Accumulative annual leave*
    2,283[53%]
*Going beyond the “Employment Ordinance”

Facilities / policies significantly increased during 2021/22 - 2022/23

  • Attained ISO 45001 (OHSMS)
    245[2021/22] > 381[2022/23] ↑56%
  • Attained HR Excellent Awards 2021/22
    36[2021/22] > 53[2022/23] ↑47%
  • Provide leave on the wedding day of immediate family members
    398[2021/22] > 519[2022/23] ↑30%
  • Unlimited paid leave policy
    113[2021/22] > 146[2022/23] ↑29%

Other spontaneous creative practices

  • Retirement planning workshop
  • Parent-child birthday dinner
  • Study leave
  • Care support leave
    *Allowing the employee flexibly align the 12days annual leave, which could be used as care support
  • Bonus for academic excellence of child
  • Reward Scheme of keep-fit
  • Reward Scheme of cigarette quitting

Caring for the Environment

Achievement in Caring for the Environment

  • Implementation of environmental protection practices
    4,292 (97%)
  • Eco-friendly manufacturing processes
    3,169 (72%)
  • Reduce carbon emissions
    3,851 (87%)
  • Green Partnership
    1,153 (26%)
  • Environmental label or other recognition
    1,089 (25%)

  • No. of awardees attaining Environmental Label or other recognition
  • ISO
  • The Hong Kong Green Mark Certification Scheme
  • Hong Kong Awards for Environmental Excellence
  • LCMP / LOOP

Around 50% awardees implementing the following environmental protection practices or policies

  • Provide Electronic Biling or Electonic Statement service
    1,631
  • Use of recycled / recyclable or environmentally friendly materials
    1,845
  • Use of recycled / recyclable literature and packaging
    1,842
  • Engaged staff and customers in reducing carbon emissions (eg. reducing business level)
    1,753
  • Used low-carbon equipment (eg. LED lights, hybrid cars and electric vehicles etc)
    2,664
  • Waste reduction and adoption of 4R policies to reduce, reuse, recycle and replace (eg. reduce paper usage, separation of waste or recycling)
    3,581

Around 30% awardees implementing the following environmental protection practices or policies

  • Manufacturing if products with minimal impact on the environment
    870[24%]
  • Integration of environmental-protection policies and measures into our business and have assigned a Green Manager or a designated business unit to oversee the environmental-management system
    965
  • Support the activity organised by Organisation / NGO
    978
  • Recycling of electronic / electric products which are harmful to the environment
    1,161

Other spontaneous creative practices

  • Besides the rest room, lights-out in office during one hour lunch time
  • Encouraging the reuse culture by implanting the online platform for second-hand products give-away in company website
  • Using the light sensitive device in the low usage frequency