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AVK supports the Lions Club’s
spring tulip event
AVK UK sponsor Staveley Miners Welfare Junior Football Club
AVK UK’s ‘Walk for Water’ raises
funds for Aquabox
AVK Válvulas empowers women in
sports in Barcelona
Charity and humanitarian
efforts
These are also donations to foundations that
support mentally disabled or families in need
to help them celebrate their child’s birthday or
pay for their tuition or schoolbooks. Other kinds
of support can be food, toiletries, or similar
donations for the homeless or otherwise in
need. We support parasport and associations
for the disabled, and we collect waste in the
local community or on beaches and partake in
donation events.
The AVK Group is involved with various
kinds of charity, handled both locally by
the management or through employee
involvement. Social responsibility is reflected
locally, nationally, and internationally through
humanitarian work.
Local commitment and support to charity
organisations
As a global Group of companies, we are
involved in several charity initiatives, but
selected initiatives are described in more detail
below.
In AVK Holding, we support numerous
associations and initiatives that make a
difference to society within health, community
spirit, art, culture, and sports. We have chosen
to support both local non-elite sports, such
as Galten Forenede Sportsklubber, and elite
sports, such as Skanderborg AGF Handball for
men, Skanderborg Handball for women and
youth.
The AVK Group also supports many charities
such as cancer societies, the Danish Heart
Foundation, the Danish Blind Society, the
Make-a-Wish Foundation, Families with canceraffected children, Danish Hospital Clowns, and
the World Wildlife Fund WWF.
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Trainees from AVK Armaturen GmbH support
“Die Tafel”
Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II presents the
Prince Henrik Award to Caspar Eric
In addition, we participate in various national
fundraising campaigns such as “Danmarks
Indsamling” (Denmark collects), where we
support 12 charity organisations with a total
of DKK 100,000 for the work with the world’s
most needy.
In 2022, the Prince Henrik Award was founded
by Danish Fiction Writers and the Danish
Authors’ Society. The Prince Henrik Award
honours a Danish lyric writer who receives a
grant of DKK 300,000. The grant is awarded
once a year, and AVK has chosen to sponsor
the award in 2022, 2023 and 2024. The award
is aimed at lyrical poetry writers who have a
narrow target audience, but who also have an
important function in challenging the reader and
enriching the language.
The bronze statue of Prince Henrik’s “Fabeldyr”
(mythical creature) gifted to the winner of the
Prince Henrik Award
