22 January 2025
Gennadii Vykhodtsev thanked the volunteers-organizers of the Second Charity Auction of the Foxtrot Group
The second charity corporate auction “I Want to Help”btook place at the end of 2024. It was organized by employees of companies that work in the office on Dorohozhytska, 1 and are an asset of the business volunteer movement
The collection was dedicated to supporting fellow defenders, because more than 266 thousand UAH collected for 11 lots of the charity auction will strengthen the health of 9 fellow defenders of Ukraine during rehabilitation or strengthen them in combat formation.
Two dozen volunteers of the "I Want to Help" movement systematically presented the lots on social networks for 3 weeks, reminded about the auction, involved company leaders in the promotion and even organized an exhibition on the first floor of the head office at 1 Dorohozhytska Street.
– We know that the companies we work for have long and systematically helped the Defense Forces of Ukraine with equipment, so we expressed a desire to strengthen corporate assistance with our own volunteer efforts, – says the organizer of the auction, head of the public relations department of the Ukrainian Defense Forces and a volunteer of the "I Want to Help" movement since 2014 Alevtyna Demutska. – The initiative came from Foxtrot employees, the volunteers independently searched and found 11 wonderful lots, recorded 5 videos, promoting these lots to the audience, and organized an exhibition in the central hall of the office.
The idea was successful for another reason: the volunteers' energy was boosted by the support of Foxtrot co-founders Gennadii Vykhodtsev and Valery Makovetsky. They doubled the amount raised by corporate donors, confirming that we all have common values: support for colleagues, love for Ukraine, and faith in Victory.
In addition, Gennady Vykhodtsev, Chairman of the Board of Founders of the GKF, signed Gratitude to the auction activists – Victoria Dyadyus (DDG), Hanna Volynska (UK GKF), Natalia Hrymalyuk (FTD), Oksana Kovalchuk (FTD), Mykhailo Bukaty (DIT), Natalia Rychkova (UK GKF), Yulia Kobernyk (FTD), Alevtyna Demutska (UK GKF), Andriy Prykhodko (Security Department), Valery Bey (DDG), Danylo Veklenko (FTD), Oleksandr Kazelsky (FTD), Viktor Danilov (FTD), Dmytro Kinashovych (FTD), Yana Yakymovych (FTD), Oleg Nikolsky (FTD), Ruslan Tryhub (Security Department of the GKF).
Recall that during the full-scale war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, Foxtrot and the co-founders of the brand transferred equipment worth UAH 42.6 million to the Defense Forces of Ukraine. Among the 1,400 requests processed by the corporate headquarters of Help Us, the first to be fulfilled were requests for assistance from company employees who joined the ranks of the Defense Forces of Ukraine, as well as air and missile defense units.
In 2023, for this case, the business received the "Warriors of Light" award from the Ukrainian network of the UN Global Compact in the competition of social initiatives "Partnership for Sustainable Development – 2023".
In 2024, the work of the corporate headquarters of Foxtrot "The help our’s"" won 1st place in the National Competition "Charitable Ukraine".