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Corporate SOCIAL Responsibility RESULTS 2018 cORPORATE SOCIAL Responsibility 1 / PREFACE 04 2 / Mission & vision 06 3 / CSR themes 09 4 / CSR projects 2018 10 4.1 Inclusion 10 4.1.1 UEFA-Hattrick: Niemand Buitenspel / Nobody Offside 12 4.1.2 LGBT+ in football 16 4.1.3 Everybody on the pitch 17 4.1.4 Belgian Homeless Cup – My Team - My Home! 22 4.1.5 Working group diversity in football 23 4.1.6 Conference: Football & Diversity 23 4.2 Children’s & Human Rights 24 4.2.1 Partnership Belgian Red Devils 24 4.2.2 Partnership Belgian Red Flames & Plan International Belgium 29 4.2.3 Tackling transgressive behaviour 30 4.3 Health 31 4.3.1 Smoke-free stadium 31 4.3.2 Stichting tegen Kanker 32 4.4 Sustainability 34 4.4.1 Project TACKLE 35 4.4.2 Project 2030 35 5/ Social office 36 6/ JO VANHECKE FUND 37 2 Corporate Social Responsibility Results 2018 www.belgianfootball.be 3 RBFA 1// PETER BOSSAERT - CEO RBFA MEHDI BAYAT - President RBFA Preface The RBFA is aware of the fact that football can mean more than just the game on the pitch. Football has These partnerships help us with the structural elaboration of our projects and enabled us to appeal to a major added social value and helps achieving social objectives such as inclusion, promoting health, organisations with a lot of expertise relating to the four themes we are focusing on within the CSR policy sustainability and children’s & human rights. For the time being football still is one of the major sports plan. in Belgium and therefore has a very wide reach in all layers of society. In 2016 the RBFA decided to We invite you to go through this annual report and discover for yourself which social objectives we have create its own Corporate Social Responsibility department and a policy plan was elaborated with various achieved this year. You will notice that 2019 will bring a lot of new challenges where sustainability will be objectives for the period 2016-2020. a key factor. We hereby proudly present the projects that we realized in 2018, together with our regional federations Voetbal Vlaanderen and ACFF. With these projects we reach various target groups such as people with Peter Bossaert Mehdi Bayat disabilities, LGB and transgender people, refugees & asylum seekers and children & adults in precarious CEO RBFA president RBFA living and home situations. We also entered into various sustainable partnerships with diverse social advisory organisations, public authorities and international umbrella associations. 4 Corporate Social Responsibility Results 2018 www.belgianfootball.be 5 RBFA 2// Mission & vision The RBFA intends to assume its social responsibility by embedding Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) projects in its operational structure. Football can be a tool to help fulfil a number of social objectives. The RBFA is aware of the fact that it has to make active efforts so as for football to become more than just the sporting performances on the pitches. In order to develop sustainable and effective CSR projects the RBFA enters into partnerships with relevant partners. Each year the RBFA evaluates its CSR operation and uses these evaluation moments to adjust its policy and introduce innovations. Assuming our social responsibility is also part of the 11 point plan that was established by the RBFA RESPECT management. More in particular point 11 “Maximising the positive power of football and the social role of the RBFA in our society.” We do this in close cooperation with the regional federations, Voetbal Vlaanderen and l’Association des Clubs Francophones de Football. With respect to various projects the FAIR PLAY RBFA also cooperates with the CSR cell within the Pro League. It is RBFA’s mission to ‘promote the values of respect, fair inclusion play, inclusion, health, sustainability and education in our society through football’. health By 2020 we, as the biggest sports organisation of the country, intend to conduct a transparent and sustainability structurally embedded CSR policy focusing on the socially relevant questions linked to the sustainable development goals of the United Nations (SDGs). Together with Route 2030, a consultancy firm in sustainability and change management, we are now elaborating a new CSR policy for 2020 - 2024. Important in this respect is that this policy fits in with the needs and questions of internal and external stakeholders, provides a measurable positive contribution to social challenges and contains a number of well-defined substantive projects having a long-term impact. 6 Corporate Social Responsibility Results 2018 www.belgianfootball.be 7 RBFA 2018 3// CSR themes Within the CSR policy of the RBFA we focus on four themes. Within these themes various projects are elaborated, each with their own specific objectives and corresponding action plan. When an organisation contacts the RBFA we always assess whether newly presented projects fall within the scope of the four pillars of the CSR policy. 01. 02. inclusion Children’s & Human Rights 03. 04. Health Sustainability 8 Corporate Social Responsibility Results 2018 www.belgianfootball.be 9 RBFA 2018 4// CSR projects 2018 In this section we present all the CSR projects that were realized in 2018, arranged per theme. We PARTNERS hereby focus on the objectives that have been achieved in 2018 and in addition offer a survey of the • Belgian Paralympic Committee various actions that contributed to achieving these objectives. • Parantee-Psylos • Proximus • Brussels football • Special Olympics Belgium • BMW • Féma • Voetbal Vlaanderen • GLS 4.1 Inclusion • G-Sport Vlaanderen • ACFF • Coca Cola Inclusive football means that everyone, whatever may be his or her gender, skin colour, origin, ethnic • Ligue Handisport Francophone • Pro League • UEFA background, sexual orientation, marital status, social position, capital, age, beliefs/philosophies, political beliefs or trade union beliefs or language, can practise the sport in an open and safe environment. For the RBFA and its regional federations inclusion is very important and we want to help football clubs through LINKS specific actions to put this value into practice. Within this theme various projects have been elaborated ACFF: https://www.acff.be/ that intend to lower the thresholds for people who, for some specific reasons, find it less easy to practise their favourite sport. Belgian Blind Devils: https://www.belgianfootball.be/nl/nationale-ploegen/nationale-g-teams/belgian-blind-devils Belgian Deaf Devils: 4.1.1. UEFA-Hattrick : https://www.belgianfootball.be/nl/nationale-ploegen/nationale-g-teams/deaf-devils-belgium Niemand Buitenspel – Nobody Offside Belgian Paralympic Committee: https://www.paralympic.be/nl BMW: https://www.bmw.be/nl_BE/index.html The project entitled “Nobody Offside” intends to make people with disabilities Brussels Football: https://www.brusselsfootball.be/ (both intellectual and physical) play football, at their own rhythm and level. Coca Cola: https://nl.cocacolabelgium.be/ Together with our regional federations, various disability-sports partners, Féma: https://www.sportadapte.be/ commercial partners and UEFA various initiatives and tools have been elaborated that help disability football grow. The major objectives of this project are a growth GLS: https://gls-group.eu/BE/vl/home in the number of disability football teams in Belgium, development of specific G-sport Vlaanderen: https://www.gsportvlaanderen.be/ tools to help our football clubs and support and promote the national disability- Parantee-Psylos: http://www.parantee.be/parantee/index.asp teams. Pro League: http://www.proleague.be/ Below you will find the results and partners who contributed to this project. Proximus: www.proximus.be Red Flamingos: https://www.belgianfootball.be/nl/nationale-ploegen/nationale-g-teams/red-flamingos Special Devils: https://www.belgianfootball.be/nl/nationale-ploegen/nationale-g-teams/special-devils Special Olympics Belgium: https://www.special-olympics.be/ UEFA: https://www.uefa.com/insideuefa/social-responsibility/ Voetbal Vlaanderen: https://www.voetbalvlaanderen.be/ 10 Corporate Social Responsibility Results 2018 www.belgianfootball.be 11 4.1 INCLUSION RBFA 2018 Working Group disability football in Flanders & Wallonia and Provincial working groups Both in Flanders and in Wallonia a working group disability football was created in 2016-2017 with representatives of the football federations and disability sport organisations. This working group helps us to further develop the disability football policy and is also a feedback organ for the organisation of various events and the development of tools for our clubs. Special Olympics, Parantee-Psylos & G-sport Vlaanderen are involved in the Flemish working group. In addition from every Flemish provincial working group a representative is present at Flemish working group meetings. Féma, Special Olympics and Ligue Handisport Francophone are part of the Walloon working group. Both working groups meet about twice a year; in addition there are work meetings throughout the year with the various disability sports partners depending on the disability football discipline. Voetbal Vlaanderen has a provincial working group disability football in every province. These working groups are responsible for the organization of the disability football competitions disability football in the spotlight and local disability football events. The disability football project will also be continued in 2019, in Flanders, Brussels and in Wallonia. Apart from the support from Proximus this project also gets UEFA support through UEFA Hattrick funding
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