As a member of the international, national and local community, Schoenfabriek Van Bommel feels responsible for the continued wellbeing of the sporting, cultural, educational and charitable environment in which it operates. Below are a number of initiatives in which Schoenfabriek Van Bommel is involved as donor, sponsor or promoter.

In connection with the pension of former managing director Frans van Bommel, the complete factory contents were shipped to South Africa. Using all the machines and appliances, a locally-active foundation Othandweni organised a shoemaker’s training programme for street children. Van Bommel has supported this project in both material and financial terms.

The management of Schoenfabriek Van Bommel is regularly asked to hold lectures at commercial seminars and conferences. The fee received for these lectures is transferred to a number of good causes (including the Trucktour Tilburg foundation and the Kika foundation for children with cancer).

Every year, staff at Van Bommel is offered the possibility of donating their Christmas bonus parcel to a good cause. For each bonus parcel surrendered, Van Bommel pays five times the value to Unicef.

Representatives of Van Bommel are active as board members or in some other capacity in a number of interest groups, sectoral associations and foundation boards (including the Board of CAST (Centre for Accessories, Shoes and Bags), the Board of BZW (Brabant division of the VNO-NCW employers’/employees’ association), the BPF (Sectoral Pension Fund), the Board of the Federation of Dutch Leather goods and Shoe manufacturers, the Board of the Shoemakers’ Guild Foundation and the Board of the Master Shoemakers’ Foundation).

Van Bommel regularly organizes publicity campaigns involving a charitable institution. Recent examples: Van Bommel and Rutger Hauer (the Starfish association), Floris van Bommel and Phillip Lahm (the German Aids Foundation), Floris van Bommel and Daniel Brühl (the German Aids Foundation). Van Bommel is a regular sponsor for a number of local initiatives in which employees of Van Bommel are involved, or with which Van Bommel has ties for other reasons (sports clubs, tournaments, choirs, four-day walking events, local history association, Twelfth Night singers, Grant a Wish foundations, carnival associations, the foundation for ‘Suppliers by Appointment in The Netherlands’, the Trucktour Tilburg foundation, student associations, study programmes, churches, etc.).