Throughout our markets, local communities face significant societal and environmental challenges. We are determined to make a positive difference in our local communities.
Many of our local communities face significant societal challenges, including high levels of inequality, youth unemployment and social exclusion. Many are also increasingly exposed to the most severe impacts of climate change, including extreme weather events, flooding and bushfires.
We are proud to have been closely connected to our communities for many generations – through our local production sites, the drivers who deliver our products or the employees who make and sell our drinks.
Through our community investment programmes and activities, we seek to make a lasting positive contribution within our local communities. We are committed to supporting grassroots community programmes and partnerships, investing in initiatives that promote inclusion and diversity, and equipping people from underrepresented groups with the skills, confidence and employability to succeed in life and employment.
We are also committed to helping protect our local environment through investment and volunteering. Our volunteering policy enables our employees to take part in a wide range of volunteering activities connected to our sustainability commitments, from litter clean up campaigns to charity fundraising events and skills-based volunteering.
Our actions support UN Sustainable Development Goal 1: No poverty, Goal 4: Quality education and Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities.
Thanks to Projekt: LokalLiebe’s donation, we were able to help people in need and provide clothing, sleeping bags and mats, fleece blankets, tents, food, drinks, masks and hygiene items.
Petra Höh
Chairwoman Care 4 Cologne e.V.
Our commitments
- Employee volunteering
- Community support
We’ll expand the contribution we make to society by increasing our employee volunteering and supporting local community partnerships.
Our employees play an important role in supporting our local community partnerships and volunteering their time to take part in a wide range of activities connected to our sustainability commitments, such as litter pick-ups, charity sports events or youth mentoring schemes.
In 2019, we introduced a new volunteering policy enabling all employees to use two paid working days every year volunteering for a charity or cause of their choice.
We’ll support initiatives which help young people gain the employability, skills and confidence they need to succeed.
We believe that everyone should be given the opportunity to fulfil their potential – whether it’s by gaining meaningful employment, learning a new skill or starting a business.
We focus our investments on local community partnerships, with a particular focus on initiatives which help young people from disadvantaged backgrounds gain the employability, skills and confidence they need to succeed.
Our progress in 2022
Our stories
In Spain and Portugal we continued to support our Mares Circulares project, in partnership with Ecomar Foundation, in the fight against ocean littering. The initiative helps clean coasts, seabeds and aquatic environments, creating awareness and training for citizens and promoting a circular economy. In 2021, 347 tonnes of waste was collected through 105 beach clean ups.
In Germany, our Projekt: LokalLiebe enables participating local restaurants and bars to support charities and community groups, donating two cents for every reusable glass bottle of ViO, Apollinaris and Honest drinks. In 2021, we donated over €53,000 to 60 charitable projects.
In Indonesia, our Bali Beach Clean Up (BBCU) programme aims to raise awareness and minimise the impact of waste. The daily clean up covers five iconic beaches: Kuta, Legian, Seminyak, Jimbaran, and Kedonganan. Since 2007, we’ve collected more than 40,000 tons of waste and provided jobs to 75 people as our BBCU crews.
We are working in partnership with Company Shop Group, the UK’s leading redistributor of surplus food and household product to support a Community Shop near our Wakefield production facility. The shop provides support for local residents and their families, providing access to discounted food, good quality meals and training through a Community Kitchen.
In partnership with the Fiji Secondary Schools Athletics Association, we organise the annual Coca-Cola Games, the largest secondary school sports event in the Pacific. Over 1.2 million people across ten Pacific Island countries watched the 47th Games which took place in 2021. Over 150 secondary schools, 300+ officials (volunteer teachers), 2,500+ athletes, 20,000 spectators and more than 100 CCEP employees were involved in the three-day event.
In Indonesia we have initiated a tree planting and environmental education programme, Coca-Cola Forests, which aims to create a healthier, safer, and more sustainable place to live while strengthening the economy of the local communities. Over 14,000 trees grow in these forests and more than 300,000 saplings have been grown in the forest nurseries and donated to communities since 2014. In 2021, Coca-Cola Forests donated over 35,000 trees to local communities, recycled more than 11,000 used PET bottles into polybags for use in the tree nurseries, and recycled organic waste to produce around 1,440 kg of compost.