Minor Hotels Europe & Americas seeks to create a positive social and environmental impact on the communities where it is present through key responsible alliances.
Hotels with a Heart is an initiative that aims to ensure that children and young people who suffer from a serious illness and have to go to hospital far from their home can be accompanied by their closest family at this difficult time. To do this, Minor Hotels Europe & Americas provides the families with rooms at hotels close to the hospital free of charge. With this goal, and in close collaboration with local NGOs and foundations, the Company provides accommodation to families with limited resources, so that they can accompany their loved ones. One of the main foundations we collaborate with are: “Menudos Corazones”, “Josep Carreras Foundation”, “Corall Family” y “Lovaas Foundation”. Furthermore, the true hosts of these families are the employees of the Company that participate in this initiative voluntarily looking after the families and helping to make their stay at the hotel as comfortable as possible.
At Minor Hotels Europe & Americas and Minor International, we share the same citizenship mindset. Aligned with this global objective we joined ‘Together with Love’, a global Volunteer Initiative that was born to commemorate Mr. Heinecke’s birthday, the founder of Minor International. Once again, the organized volunteering sessions have been very well received by all employees, as they have the opportunity to make a positive contribution to society. This year, over 1,220 employees participated as volunteers in numerous initiatives, chosen and led by them. To name just some of them, the employees carried out different initiatives, including collaboration with a soup kitchen, to help cook and distribute the food. Visits to the headquarters of Madrid Food Bank, to help to organize and package all the foods requested by the different associations. A textile collection campaign was also organized, along with a blood donation campaign.
79 Hotels Involved | 56 initiatives carried out
109 Foundations and NGOs involved | 15.358 TWL beneficiaries
Youth unemployment in Spain, which is more significant in groups at risk of social exclusion, requires programs focused on boosting the employability and social integration of young people. Minor Hotels Europe & Americas continues to be committed to increasing the employability of such young people and aims to promote different training and work experience programs for young people at risk of exclusion and for disabled individuals at hotels in all its Business Units.
In 2022, one of the collaborations was with Tomillo Foundation, which is dedicated to fostering employability and reducing school dropout by young people at risk of exclusion, with which it has been collaborating for years. In the month of June, in the framework of this collaboration with the Foundation, the Company received several Erasmus students from different parts of Europe who were interns in 6 of our hotels in Madrid. As well as seeing the hotel facilities, the students had the opportunity to find out first-hand the main duties of the professionals of a hotel and found the experience very rewarding.
Please, if you need to make any complaint or communication related to the local communities where we are present, please do so through this email address: sustainablebusiness@nh-hotels.com
