About SKB bank

 

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

We strive for the well-being of the environment in which we operate and do business.

 

At SKB Bank, we make sure that our focus on sustainable business touches all areas: sports, nature and the environment, culture, our employees and, as part of charity, all those who can achieve their goals through our support.

SPORTS

SKB Bank has been the main sponsor of the Olympic Committee of Slovenia since the very beginning of the Olympic movement in the independent Slovenia. We have been a sponsor of top athlete Maruša Mišmaš Zrimšek for several years and proud receivers of WAC certificate.

Proud owners of the "Workplace active certificate"

At SKB bank, we support top-level, Olympic sports as well as sports for anyone who decides to spend their free time actively. As the main sponsor, we have been supporting the Olympic Committee of Slovenia for almost 30 years, on whose initiative, as a pioneering company, we joined the project to obtain the first European certificate in the field of employee sports activities.

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SKB supports sport - personal sponsorship of the top athlete Maruša Mišmaš Zrimšek

Maruša Mišmaš Zrimšek is the best Slovenian middle-distance runner. She holds national records in the 2,000 and 3,000 metres steeplechase, which is also her flagship discipline. She was also sixth at the Tokyo 2020 (2021) Olympics.

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Sponsor of the Slovenian Olympic team

Since the very beginning of the Olympic movement in independent Slovenia in 1993, SKB has been the main sponsor of the Slovenian Olympic team.

Cooperation with the Olympic Committee of Slovenia (OCS) dates back to the beginning of its operation, so SKB is considered one of the first Slovenian companies which decided to support and spread the Olympic values in Slovenia.

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CULTURE

We are aware of the importance of culture and arts, as it gives us inspiration, relaxes us, and takes us into the world of art. We are happy to invite our clients and employees to these magical moments and enable them to participate in exceptional performances by Slovenian and foreign artists.

Sponsor of SNG Opera and Ballet Ljubljana, also in the 2022/2023 season

This year again, SKB Bank decided to support the Slovenian cultural production and thus became a sponsor of the 2022/23 season of SNG Opera and Ballet Ljubljana. We are aware that culture and art are important building blocks of our society and of a better everyday life. Through our support, we will be able to empower cultural creators to realize many goals, and to offer visitors to the Ljubljana Opera House a unique cultural experience.

This way, we build a successful society together and co-create the environment in which we operate and do business.

Support of the Manager's concert

Having success of the social environment in mind, we supported the Manager's Concert also in 2022. The fundraising event for talented musicians impressed with young musical talents, a repertoire of selected works of art and inspiring performances by young female pianists accompanied by the symphony orchestra of RTV Slovenia. The Manager's concert has been organized for 29 consecutive years for Slovenian businessmen, music lovers and all those who like good deeds for others. The mission of the concert is to create opportunities for the development of young musical talents.

 

 

NATURE

With the project "SKB with nature in the city", SKB Bank has been a part of urban beekeeping for several years, and it this way it contributes to the preservation of bees and their living space. Carniolan honey bees (kranjske sivke) are our friends who produce delicious urban honey every year on the terrace of the SKB office building.

March 26 - Day of planting honey plants

At SKB Bank, we have joined the pan-Slovenia campaign of planting honey plants, and we will distribute as many as 2,000 sets of their seeds among employees, clients and visitors to the capital. As part of the cooperation with the Slovenian Beekeepers' Association, we also donated 100 honey trees, which will be planted on this year's day of planting honey plants.

We became a member of the Green Network of Slovenia

At SKB Bank, we strive for the well-being of the environment in which we work and operate.

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SKB urban bee house

The fact is that bees are an endangered species, probably also due to the overuse of stimulants and protective agents in agriculture. In cities, such agents are used to a lesser extent, which makes it easier for bees to survive in urban environments.

Therefore, urban beekeeping has become one of the possible solutions for the survival of bees, who return our care for them by pollinating plants and giving us sweet honey.

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EMPLOYEES

We strive to encourage our clients and employees to take a sustainable view of the world and the environment around us. We do this through small but friendly actions – a good practice is a book exchange, where employees bring a book they have read and take away unread books. In this way, we support the sustainable exchange of books and promote reading culture. SKB Sports Association with more than a third of the Bank’s employees as members has been very active at SKB Bank.

We place great emphasis on education and employee development, so we encourage our employees to continuous growth. As part of the strategy and development program, we employ experts of various profiles and create new jobs that were unusual for the Bank until recently. Thus, the Bank is increasingly becoming an employer with a multidisciplinary team of experts.

Connected through acts of kindness

In December 2023, we prepared a charity challenge in which we donated our time through acts of kindness. More than 160 employees took part in the campaign and carried out many good actions.

Thanks to everyone who helped create nicer holidays and a better future. SKB Bank donated 10 EUR to the Rdeči noski for every act of kindness of its employees.

Results of survey on employees’ arrival to workplace

In 2022, for the first time, we conducted a survey on how employees arrive to the workplace.

Based on the survey, we estimate that for coming to and from the workplace SKB employees generate on average 0.65 tCO2e per year. In the future, we will encourage employees through various activities to move from existing mobility to more sustainable solutions. Among the key ones are certainly reducing the need for mobility, promoting the use of public transportation, shared transport and the use of emission-free means of transport, and the electrification of mobility in combination with energy efficiency.

CHARITY

As part of the support to urban beekeeping, in 2023 we donated funds to the Urban Beekeeper and thus thanked Slovenian bees for everything they do for our environment and us.

We support good deeds

At the end of 2023, we prepared a charity challenge in which more than 200 people participated and together we carried out more than 300 good deeds. We donated 10,000 EUR to the Red Noses association so that hospital clowns can continue to devote themselves to children in hospitals with all their heart, knowledge and talent. Because we believe in the power of laughter and smiles of children in Slovenian hospitals.

Working together as a group, we can work better - also for charitable purposes

In August 2023, Slovenia was hit by devastating floods and landslides. Many citizens generously came to help during this period, and SKB Bank, Nova KBM and the parent OTP Bank also joined in with a donation of 2.2 million euros.

We dedicated the donation to the Fire Brigade of Slovenia, the Mountain Rescue Association of Slovenia and the Red Cross of Slovenia.

We immediately offered those affected by the floods solidarity aid in the form of financial help, the possibility of using extraordinary leave, mobilized their employees to help their colleagues physically, with material goods or temporary accommodation as far as possible.

We sincerely thank the residents of Slovenia and the competent authorities for their commitment, the organization of rescue operations and still ongoing restoration of areas.

#Vztrajam

Do you have goals for which you have to persevere day after day, week after week?

People keep setting goals in our lives. Someone would like to pass the last exam and finish their education with a diploma, another one wants to lose some extra kilograms, the fourth is trying to successfully complete a business project, the fifth's great success is to move more every day, learn to meditate or get rid of some bad habit, etc.

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#VZTRAJAM

With the #vztrajam (#persist) movement, we call for an active life, perseverance, finding motivation and inspiring others. We support the achievement of everyday life goals in different periods and situations. We invite individuals to various #vztrajam (#persist) challenges to encourage them to lead a healthy lifestyle. We are aware that only a healthy and happy environment is one in which we can also do business successfully.

At the end of 2021, as part of the #vztrajam (#persist), movement, we prepared a #Vztrajam project: We support good deeds by encouraging employees, clients and all those who follow SKB Bank to do something good.

#Vztrajam

Do you have goals for which you have to persevere day after day, week after week?

People keep setting goals in our lives. Someone would like to pass the last exam and finish their education with a diploma, another one wants to lose some extra kilograms, the fourth is trying to successfully complete a business project, the fifth's great success is to move more every day, learn to meditate or get rid of some bad habit, etc.

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We stand for good interpersonal relations and for a healthy and positive environment, therefore we try to help groups and individuals with similar values.

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