Social involvement
International Justice Mission
An important starting point in the business operations of Business Data Challengers is reducing travel time and CO2 emissions. In addition, we find a cultural fit with our customers very important. That is precisely why Business Data Challengers serves its customers from autonomous, regional teams. From this perspective, we also fill in our social involvement. We feel involved with organizations that choose to tackle problems regionally and with local representatives based on the right conviction.
Although we do not operate globally, we choose to support the International Justice Mission (IJM). A non-profit organization that uses the principle of solving modern slavery from regional field offices, in collaboration with local authorities.
IJM is the world’s largest organization fighting slavery. In countries like India, the Philippines, Ghana and Cambodia, IJM fights against forced labor, human trafficking for the sex industry and child abuse for cybersex. IJM works to:
- To free slaves
- To bring perpetrators to justice
- Restoring the lives of freed victims
- To structurally change societies
With our knowledge and experience, Business Data Challengers supports IJM in making data insightful. This provides IJM with information that contributes to the development of activities to recruit more members and sponsors.
Curious if you can help? Then go to the International Justice Mission website
Hockey club Hattem
Establishment:
During the summer holidays of 1952, a group of children were playing in the Hattem woods, listening to the match report of the Helsinki Olympics. They decided to organise their own Games. They jumped high, ran and played hockey with branches they found in the woods and a ball made of rubber bands. The children became so enthusiastic that they decided to set up a hockey club. The eldest of sixteen, Rudolf Suermondt, became chairman and under his leadership more and more members were recruited. And so a place had to be found to train and play matches. This became a place known as the Hazenakker, because it was teeming with hares and rabbits. Reason enough to design a logo with a hare.
Football club Voorwaarts Utrecht
Club song:
Come Forward members,
Hold high the green and black flag,
When a match is fought,
And victory awaits us.
Come on men: on to the field,
Keep your eye on the ball!
This is how we keep the flag of Voorwaarts flying.
When the referee blows the whistle to start,
Then follows a loud hooray!
A competition is about to unfold,
And victory soon follows,
Come on men: on to the field,
Keep your eye on the ball!
This is how we keep the flag of Voorwaarts high!
Handball club Nieuwegein
Establishment:
Handball association Nieuwegein was founded on 26 September 1976. The association was founded by a number of enthusiastic handball lovers and started under the name HVN. On 1 July 1989, the association merged with the Handball association Attila, which emerged from the sports association Attila, founded on 6 October 1896. Attila was a handball stronghold from Utrecht with a long history. The merged association continued under the name HVN/Attila.
In the period from 1991 to 2003, the Van Riet company enthusiastically committed itself to our association, by means of main sponsorship. In this period, the name of the association was changed to Handbalvereniging Van Riet/Nieuwegein.
In 2006, the first Men's team was promoted to the Premier League, followed by the first Women's team in the Premier League in 2007. The Men were relegated to the 1st division after 4 seasons and the Women after 5 seasons.
Almere Hockey Club
The foundation:
The Almeerse Hockey Club was founded on October 23, 1979 and has grown steadily since then, both in terms of membership and performance. The club has over 1350 members and is one of the largest sports clubs in Almere. We strive for a successful combination of top, performance and recreational sports. Every week, 14 senior teams and 93 youth teams train and play on the Almere fields.
The performances of our teams speak for themselves in recent years. The club relies on its own strength and trains our players itself. By investing in the quality of our trainers and supervisors, the contribution of the many volunteers and parents and a fantastic accommodation with four water fields and three sand fields, the Almeerse is a unique place in our young city to play hockey with pleasure.
De Almeerse is a club for everyone. For top athletes, performance players and recreational athletes. Our starting point is hockey, where everyone can perform at his or her level.
Porsche racing
Many of the colleagues are racing fans. An important reason for BDC to sponsor this Porsche and have it available for joint team building activities. This has contributed to the fact that there is an F1 simulator in the BDC fun corner at the office in Abcoude.
Cycling club De Kopgroep
Establishment:
Cycling club De Kopgroep was founded on the Canary Islands. In the beautiful mountainous landscape it was hard work, but also a lot of fun. At that time a leading group was formed and thus cycling club De Kopgroep was founded.
BDC CO2 certificate
Business Data Challengers actively pursues a CO2-neutral fleet policy. With sustainable mobility, we contribute to a cleaner world.
Business Data Challengers is completely CO2 neutral, we compensate our CO2 emissions. In addition, we stimulate the use of public transport and work from regional teams to limit the number of car kilometers.
We continuously make our business operations more sustainable and encourage our partners to follow our example. The ultimate result is a positive impact on our living environment.
Plastic fishing
At Business Data Challengers we are aware of the major problem with plastic waste.
We are also taking on this Challenge. On September 26, 2019, we fished plastic from the Amsterdam canals. But oFor example, our Business Data Challengers also use sustainable drinking bottles instead of single-use plastic cups.
We like to make an active contribution, our drinking bottles and fishing for plastic in Amsterdam are examples of this.
Also #teamwork!
IONIQA
BDC develops the collaboration with IONIQA. IONIQA recycles all types of PET, even colored PET. This was not possible until now, IONIQA’s technology is truly groundbreaking. But there is more positive news. The pure raw material that is produced is identical to the plastics produced from oil; even suitable for food packaging. How? Simply put, the method we use is called depolymerization. The plastic, also called polymer, is immersed in a solution, such as water or glycol. The molecular structure of the polymer, which consists of identical units (the monomers), then slowly begins to dissolve. With the raw material we harvest, we produce new, clear PET bottles that are food safe.
