Volunteer movement of GKF employees on Volunteer Day

This direction of social responsibility in Foxtrot is represented by several vectors:

• company's initiatives in support of military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
• own initiatives of business co-founders;
• corporate movement of employees “I want to help!”.

1. Activity of the company supporting the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, veterans and their families.

First aid from Foxtrot was delivered to the defenders of Ukraine already in March 2014, during the first days of military aggression in the Crimea and in the East of the country. In the company's archive, photographs from that spring have been preserved. Quick response with furniture and equipment was sent to the military barracks of Mykolaiv. The barracks housed Crimean soldiers who did not violate the oath of allegiance to Ukraine, moved "to the mainland", but needed elementary arrangements for life.

In August 2014, Foxtrot provided household appliances (refrigerators, TVs, laptops) to the Military Medical Clinical Center of the Northern Region, located in Kharkiv. Also, Lviv Hospital named after Yuriy Lypa, the Kremenchug military hospital and the Separate Special Detachment of the Western Territorial Administration of the National Guard of Ukraine, which is at the forefront received household suppliance as help.


Since 2016, Foxtrot has become a partner of the project "Ukrainians Together!". The social card of this project allows businesses to provide targeted assistance to 230 thousand defenders of Ukraine and 1.5 thousand family members of the dead heroes of the ATO. More than a thousand transactions with the participation of the social card "Ukrainians Together" are recorded monthly. Since the time when Foxtrot became a partner of the project, thanks to a 10% discount on the purchase of goods in Foxtrot stores and the FOXTROT.UA online store, more than 7.9 million hryvnias of assistance have been transferred to the defenders of Ukraine.

2. Corporate movement of volunteers "I want to help!" in FOXTROT Group of Companies.

Many employees of the company have been actively involved in helping the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the first days of military aggression. Already in September 2014, the employees offered to join forces. This is how the volunteer movement “I Want to Help!” appeared, which has increased the overall business assistance to the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine over the past 7 years.

During this time, the activists of the movement “I want to help!” in FOXTROT Group of Companies organized 70 actions, 5 charity fairs, systematic patronage of specific wounded of the Kyiv and Irpin military hospitals. In the most difficult years for the country (2014-2015), about 1000 people took part in corporate volunteer actions.
3. Own initiatives of business founders. Among the first activists of the volunteer movement in the GKF is the co-founder of Foxtrot Gennadii Vykhodtsev.

On March 27, 2014, Gennadii Vykhodtsev was one of the first in the company to hand over 40 body armor and 13 flashlights with special functions at the request of the military unit. In April 2014, Gennadii Vykhodtsev met the needs of Ukrainian border guards, formulated in a letter: "Considering the deteriorating economic situation in Ukraine and the Armed Forces of Ukraine, we ask you to transfer a set of equipment for the work of units." The border guards of the newly created Azov-Black Sea Department moved to Kherson to a permanent place of deployment and needed material support. Then the founders of the GKF purchased body armor, office equipment, flags for them. There was also a second wave of assistance – fundraising from volunteers of the GKF: seasonal sleeping bags and office equipment were sent to the border guards.


In addition, Gennadii Vykhodtsev visited wounded soldiers in the Kyiv military hospital during the transfer of household and climatic equipment for hospital wards. Many volunteers remember the action of support the defenders of the Kramatorsk airport, when the help collected by the volunteers, among whom were Gennadii Vykhodtsev and his team in the GKF, was dropped to Ukrainian soldiers from the air.