Keppel Land promotes employee volunteerism through the Keppel Volunteers programme.

Adopting Best Practices
Keppel Land believes in contributing to and positively impacting the communities where it operates. It constantly strives to adopt and implement best practices in its business operations, with the aim to conduct its business in a socially responsible and ethical manner, engaging stakeholders, protecting the environment and contributing to the communities.

Keppel Land has been a member of the Singapore Compact, a national society with the aim of furthering the corporate social responsibility movement in Singapore, since 2006. The Group is also one of the founding and charter members of the Investor Relations Professionals Association (Singapore), which aims to cultivate best practices and enhance the professional standards of investor relations locally.

Caring for the Community
Recognising that charity goes beyond monetary contributions, Keppel Land and its staff offer their time and ability to create effective and sustainable programmes for the community.

Keppel Volunteers
As part of the Keppel Group's Volunteers programme to encourage good corporate citizenship, Keppel Land continued to support the schools under its adopted charity, the Association of Persons with Special Needs (APSN). Staff are given two days from work a year to participate in the programme, which is now into its ninth year.

Championing Charity Causes
For the second consecutive year, Keppel Land and sister company Keppel Integrated Engineering were platinum sponsors for the second Semakau Corporate Environmental Outreach Run in October 2008. Organised by the National Environment Agency, the run raised funds to benefit local environmental non-governmental organisations in their community outreach programmes.

Keppel Land also sponsored a SMRT 'Heart Train' and helped raise $200,000 with a charity golf tournament to benefit 31 beneficiaries, in support of the President's Challenge 2008.

During the Christmas season, Keppel Land organised a Christmas Bazaar and invited local and international charities such as the Institute of Mental Health, APSN, Cicada Tree Eco-Place, Singapore Management University Ambassadors raising funds for the Elephant Nature Foundation, Tabitha Foundation and the Riverkids Project to showcase their products.

Keppel Land also collaborated with World Vision to promote the 'Tree of Life' campaign, a child sponsorship programme which provides basic essentials like clean water, food, education, healthcare, and economic opportunities to children, families and their communities in developing countries.

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