The Move For Youth Challenge 2022
The 2022 edition of the Move For Youth sports and solidarity challenge, for its employees around the world, is already over!
In total, 17,850 members of staff from 57 countries took part in the second Move For Youth event in support of the education and professional integration of young people. The photos shared by our teams around the world demonstrate the enthusiasm generated by this sporting and solidarity challenge, this year supported by the advice and encouragement of a team of coaches.
Together, we achieved our goal!
We covered 2 003 965 kilometers for the benefit of 50 charities working with young people around the world.
Thanks to this amazing commitment, together we have raised 2 million euros!
This sum is the proof of our collective efforts – raised thanks to donations from the Group, our international subsidiaries and entities in France, and completed by the generosity of staff in Asia-Pacific, the United States and Tunisia, where fundraising initiatives were organised.
The 50 benefitting associations will be supported in two ways:
- Firstly, we will directly finance grassroots projects organised by the charities, all of which work with young people at different stages in their lives.
- Secondly, we will set up and fund a specially made education-through-sports programme – Rugby For Youth – for the young people helped by these charities. This outstanding solidarity programme will take place in France in October 2023 alongside the Rugby World Cup, of which our Group is a Worldwide Partner. Thanks to your efforts, 200 young people from charities supported by the Move For Youth challenge will be invited to take part in an exciting educational experience using rugby to support their integration. We will share further information about this major programme shortly.
See you for the next Move For Youth event in 2023!
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Associations
In total, more than 50 associations will benefit from the Move For Youth Challenge, in France and abroad.
Play International, emblematic association of the cause of education through sport and a partner of the Societe Generale The Future is You Corporate Foundation is the association chosen by the Group.It will be the beneficiary of the challenge for employees of the head office in France and for all employees of countries that have not retained a local charity.
The employees of the BDDF and Crédit du Nord BUs, divided into teams within 7 territories, will support one association per territory. These 7 associations will have been identified through a dedicated call for projects led by the Societe Generale The Future is You Corporate Foundation.
Outside France, countries wishing to do so have identified a local association working for the education or professional integration of young people. In total, more than 40 associations have been identified in this context and will benefit from the challenge.
We invite you to discover the associations supported and the projects they are carrying out below!
Local charity supported by the Group
Local charities supported in France
Local charities supported abroad
Agenda (local time)
On the 15th, 19th, 20th, 22nd September: Running group lead by a professional trainer.
On the 15th, 19th and 21st, it is proposed to employees that they do not use the elevator throughout the day and instead use the stairs to add kilometers.
Organization with the tourist office of a guided tour of the old town during lunch time.
Launching of the challenge to the 270 registered students with the intervention of the association chosen for the territory: the CGenial Foundation.
Run activity followed by a drink with participants
Ride for a Reason, a charity bike ride and post-ride reception in New York.
Departure from the Plaza: cycling among employees
Yoga recovering class
Let's walk from La Défense to the Dunes via 29 boulevard Haussmann. Possibility to participate in the whole journey or in some stages.
Town Hall Meetings are regularly organized to allow employees to interact in a more playful and lighter way with CODIR members. The idea being to maintain these meetings but in digestive walk format.
On the occasion of World Clean Up Day, Societe Generale in Switzerland is participating in a special cleanup in the streets of Geneva and Zurich on 16th September with IGSU (https://www.igsu.ch/fr/clean-up-day/clean-up-day/).
Biking day with Move For Youth participant.
Sports days open to MFY participants and all staff
A walking tour followed by a picnic will be organized for all employees who wish to participate.
Staff will gather and move by walking, running, or cycling in groups to a designated point.
Zumba session in Yaoundé (Orchidée Fitness Club gym) accompanied by sports coaches.
"Get Ready to Move for Youth " morning - Societe Generale Club of Dar Bouazza:
- 8am: Gathering at the parking lot of the Dar Bouazza Club.
- 8:15 am: Beginning of the sport walk - circuit around the Dar Bouazza Club.
- 9:15 am : Return to the Club of Dar Bouazza and stretching session with Naim Mohamed, member of the stride section.
- 9:30 am - exchange and breakfast.
Hiking session with the charity partner's kids.
Biking day with Move For Youth participant.
Walk and beach cleaning
From 18 to 25 September, running group lead by a professional trainer.
From 19 to 22 September, walking group lead by a professional trainer.
5km run in group at the European Space of Schiltigheim
Departure from Plaza: hike among employees to discover the surroundings of the city
A professional guide will walk with the colleagues and talk about the history and architecture of the main monuments and buildings of the historic center.
Thierry Dusautoir, former captain of the French rugby XV team and coach of the Challenge, will come to realize his individual mission of 5 kilometers in the Park of Nanterre.
A 45-minute walk followed by an afterwalk! A great opportunity to get together after the summer break and to celebrate the kilometers covered all together around a drink at the arrival near the Jardin d'Acclimatation!
Departure Plaza: running outing between employees
20 – 22 September : Let’s ban the use of the elevator for 2 days (for all those who can). Employees are suggested to wear comfortable clothes and sneakers for the office.
Streching and run
Employees are encouraged to use their lunch break to go for a walk with their colleagues around the office. Its is proposed a time and a meeting point where they can meet as a group.
Departure from Plaza: running outing between employees (8 to 10km)
A brisk walk with the colleagues in a beautiful park near the office for a sporty and social moment surrounded by nature.
Cultural walk in the center of Bordeaux with the teams involved and the supported association, Le Stade Bordelais.
The employees will meet the association supported by Move For Youth in Morocco, Loop For Science & Technology, this Wednesday, September 21, 2022 at 11:30 a.m. at the Auditorium (Headquarters Societe Generale Morocco).
This activity consists of inviting all registered teams to visit three branches (CDG, Head Office and Market) to collect stamps from managers.
- 1st stamp office DCE (Headquarters)
- 2nd stamp DG office (headquarters)
- 3rd stamp office DGA (headquarters)
- 4th stamp HRD office (market)
- 5th DMSQ office stamp (CDG)
Walk from the SG Tours to the top of Mont-Valérien at lunch time!
Departure from Carrefour: bike ride between employees
Sports afternoon: Football, running, zumba, mölkky, archery, kin-ball... between SG employees and young people from Sport dans la Ville.
It is proposed to employees setting up a Societe Generale running group to go for a run together around the office area.
Running club in Hong Kong
A professional guide will walk with the colleagues and talk about the history and architecture of the main monuments and buildings of the historic center.
All SG Vienna Teams are biking and having fun on the Danube Island together for the app. 20 Km!
A brisk walk with the colleagues in a beautiful park near the office for a sporty and social moment surrounded by nature.
Ride for a Reason, a charity bike ride and post-ride reception in Chicago.
Running activity followed by a drink with Move For Youth participants.
Yoga recovering class
Town Hall Meetings are regularly organized to allow employees to interact in a more playful and lighter way with CODIR members. The idea being to maintain these meetings but in digestive walk format.
A hike in several regions will be organized with all the participants in the Challenge of different wilayas.
Departure from Carrefour: hike between employees to discover the surroundings of the city.
Streching + Hong Kong trail
Initiation to rugby with the children of the association Chaîne des Foyers Saint-Nicodème, beneficiaries of the Challenge, with Haka dance at the beginning and at the end.
+ on the 17th, Zumba session in Douala in front of the Siege building.
SG Guinea will launch a solidarity day to embody the commitment of its employees to people in need. This activity will be dedicated to a foot race or walk through which employees will promote their team spirit and share their energy/time with the chosen association acting in the field of education and/or socio-professional integration.
Solidarity race to raise funds for research to treat pediatric cancers.
2 routes:
- 10 km run
- 5 km run or walk
A fund raising
Some locations have taken the initiative to give their teams the opportunity to go the extra mile by raising funds for their local charity partner.
To learn more and/or to support them with a donation, click on the below links (or scan the QR codes – if the link is blocked on your professional computer).
- In Asia Pacific (Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore)
- In Europe (Romania, Spain and Switzerland): Fundrazr
- In the USA:
- Chicago: Give Lively
- New York City: Hcz
- Chicago: Give Lively
- In Tunisia : Don by UIB
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