A year of commitment
In 2025, more than €196,000 in donations were made in various forms by the Group and its branches in France and Europe, supporting 46 NGOs and charities and contributing to 7 SDGs.
In addition, more than 126 tonnes of goods have been carried free of charge in France for 6 different organisations, 55% more than in 2024. This means that nearly 5% of the Group’s sponsorship support corresponded to transport costs, in the cases where it has been possible to estimate them.
Heppner’s corporate engagement is above all a collective endeavour, embodied and strengthened every day thanks to the commitment of its employees. In 2025, employees devoted 217 hours to skill-based volunteering (vs. 86 hours in 2024).
With the aim of boosting employee mobilisation around solidarity initiatives, team-building activities, volunteering opportunities at the organisations supported by the Group and donation drives (toys, childcare material, essential goods) were organised within the branches throughout the year.
In 2025, two challenges, each one attracting close to 800 participants, were also organised and led by the CSR department in support of NGOs and charities.
1. Combating poverty
Heppner has been supporting the Banque Solidaire de l’Équipement (a solution conceived by Emmaüs Défi) since 2022. Its mission is to combat poor housing and improve the material security of people in very precarious situations.
In 2025, this partnership has continued through both financial sponsorship and skill-based volunteering.
Heppner branches have transported donations by the NGO’s partners free of charge to BSE centres in Lyon and Roubaix, amounting to more than 4 tonnes of goods. In addition, they have made weekly deliveries at negotiated rates from Rungis to Toulouse, amounting to a total of 107 tonnes of goods.
5th charity team-building event in Rungis:
Working alongside employees from L’Equipage, a work integration social enterprise specialised in logistics and created by Emmaüs Défi, Heppner employees have taken part in a range of logistics activities: receiving, sorting and indexing the donations received, taking photographs for the catalogue, and repackaging and preparing for dispatch to the NGO’s beneficiary families.
Super Noël 2025 (Christmas Collection Campaign)
From 3 to 20 November 2025, all the Heppner branches in France took part in the national toy collection organised by Emmaüs Défi ahead of the festive season, enabling families facing hardship to buy good-quality toys at highly reduced prices. This collection campaign broke all previous records, with more than 1.5 tonnes of toys collected (of which more than one third were new).
Everyday Essentials Collection with Amistocks
Organised by Emmaüs Défi, Amistocks are collection points intended to collect gifts of small objects in good condition: clothes, shoes, decorative items, crockery, toys, books, CDs, small household appliances, etc. Introduced at Heppner‘s head office in April 2024, this initiative – highly appreciated by employees – has already resulted in 12 collection cycles, with donation boxes installed and collected by the NGO.
Created in 2023 as part of Heppner’s “Solidarity and Territories” call for projects, Regards Solidaires continues to provide assistance to students in Strasbourg and is broadening its scope of action to support local charity initiatives.
Its original core action is to distribute free baskets of seasonal organic fruit and vegetables – sourced from local producers – to Strasbourg students facing financial hardship. Building on this flagship initiative, the association is continuing its expansion to create a truly engaged community supporting individuals facing financial and material hardship, while also promoting sustainable development: collaborative recycling workshops, exhibitions by committed local artists, peer support groups to combat isolation, etc.
Several employees from the Strasbourg branch, which provides financial support to the association each year, are active members, including the bay supervisor José Burckle, who is its founding chairman, and two female employees, who are its treasurer and secretary, respectively.
2. Supporting NGOs and charities committed to food security
In 2025, Heppner renewed the sponsorship agreement signed in 2024 with the French Federation of Food Banks, the leading food aid network in France.
Record mobilisation of employees for the National Food Drive
- 27 employees across France and Spain
- 70 tonnes of goods transported free of charge
This year, in addition to transport operations performed for local food banks to collect donations from partner stores, some Heppner branches also rented vehicles to make them available free of charge to food banks.
This exceptional mobilisation was made possible by a particularly strong in-house communication campaign (head office events, awareness-raising webinar, tailored communication materials, calls for volunteers, etc.), led by the Group’s CSR department and relayed to all the branches by the CSR representatives and the branch managers.
Other local projects to combat food poverty
A donation drive was organised this year across all the branches in Germany for the Tafel Food Bank.
As an extension of the Group‘s ongoing commitment to combating food poverty, the Strasbourg branch transported more than 35 tonnes of goods free of charge for the NGO Les Restos du Coeur in 2025.
3. Promoting health and well-being
Since its creation, Magie à l’Hôpital (Magic in Hospitals) has been offering magic shows to hospitalised children and their families on a voluntary basis, helping to make children’s magical dreams come true. In 2025, after more than 12 years of support, the Heppner Group strengthened its commitment by signing its first sponsorship agreement with the NGO.
This partnership was celebrated by the Group’s employees during a Magic Week dedicated to solidarity, marked by our 4th connected charity run called “I run for children”. This year, 770 participants ran a total of 45,543 km. A record and, above all, a magnificent demonstration of collective energy and solidarity!
As a sports enthusiast (especially running), taking part in the connected Magie à l‘Hôpital run was an obvious choice. When she was a girl, my mother was hospitalised for a long period at a time when little attention was paid to supporting children and their families during these experiences. So helping to make this period less difficult and helping these children to smile again, in spite of being ill, were really motivating for me. What could be more rewarding than knowing that the effort put into an activity I enjoy can help ease the daily lives of children facing such difficult situations?
This year, some employees accompanied the Magi’Bus team during three children‘s hospitals visits in Créteil, Bordeaux and Toulouse.
Finally, as every year, Heppner has supported the NGO‘s activities by buying tickets for families and children to the Au Tours du Rire comedy festival.
Strong local support for SDG 3 (health and well-being)
The Group’s commitment to supporting SDG 3 is also reflected in numerous local initiatives and partnerships:
Supporting children:
- Safram Budapest: collection of donations of childcare material and essential goods for local nurseries
- Lorient branch: support for the association ELARA TY CHAT, which assists children and adults affected by the Cri-du-chat syndrome
- Île de France North branches: support for the Lisa Forever association, whose mission is to combat childhood cancers
Fighting cancer:
- Financial donations and participation by several branches in Pink October, the annual breast cancer awareness and fundraising campaign.
Lastly, across France and abroad, our employees remain actively engaged throughout the year through sports clubs, associations and competitions, embodying through their achievements the vital connection between solidarity, sport and health.
4. Supporting education initiatives
Heppner has been committed for many years to supporting NGOs and foundations that work in this area, both in France and abroad.
In France, for example, the Strasbourg branch supports the APIEDA (Association for the Integration of Hearing-Impaired Children in Mainstream Education), which supports families who have chosen to enrol their deaf children and teenagers in mainstream schools, thereby playing a key role in promoting integration and inclusion through education.
For its part, the Dijon branch donated school supplies to Les Anciennes Caisses de Gevrey, a classic car club, which then sent them to African schools as part of its participation in the 4L Trophy 2025.
