The Chamber takes an active part in the implementation of various socially significant projects and programs. Competitions, charitable actions and events are conducted under patronage of Saint-Petersburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

The most important part of the company’s social responsibility to the society is charity. Within the framework of social programs, SPb CCI renders charitable aid to public organisations, children’s homes, veterans of the Great Patriotic War.

The principles of humanism and charity in everyday life are important for us. And though the amounts of donations are not so high, we are sure that the social aid being rendered is of target-oriented and address character.

SPb CCI takes part in the organisation of charitable action on the erection of a monument to the great Russia opera singer B.T. Shtokolov.

The Chamber has taken part in financing of a charitable event in the Children’s City Hospital No.1 within the framework of the Parent’s day Program with participation of circus performers.

In 2008, SPb CCI rendered charitable aid for an amount of more than 1 million roubles to:

• ‘Great Bear’ public charitable movement;
• ‘Pelican Centre’ public charitable organisation;
• ‘Fortuna Centre for aid to disabled children’, a charitable organisation;
• St. Petersburg Ardis public organisation of children with hearing problems and their parents;
• ‘Grot Foundation’, a St. Petersburg charitable organisation;
• ‘Pilgrim’ public charitable organisation;
• ‘Umka’ public organisation for aid to disabled children;
• Dance on Wheels, ‘Sports club of dancing on wheelchairs’, a public organisation of disabled people;
• ‘Reconstruction of St. Catherine’s Cathedral’, a charitable foundation;
• ‘Northern Palmyra’ public charitable organisation;
• Interregional All-Russian Public Organisation of Veterans;
• aid in purchase of medical equipment for the city hospital of Tskhinval;
• purchase of construction materials for the Kolpino penal colony for under-age persons;
• ‘The Homeless Children Aid Centre’ of RF CCI rendered charitable aid to entities of the Leningrad region (over 490,000 rou-bles):
• Siversky Special (Corrective) Children's Home for Orphans and Abandoned Children with Problems in Development, a mu-nicipal educational institution for orphans and abandoned children;
• Professional Agrotechnical School (Lyceum) No. 41, a state educational institution;
• Tolmachevo children's home, a municipal educational institution for orphans and abandoned children.