Corporate Social Responsibility

Every year, the inclusion golf tournament takes place at the Krefeld Golf Club under the motto “Grenzenlos Bewegen!” (Move without limits!) as part of the Special Olympics NRW.

We have been a supporter from the very beginning because we believe that this project makes a wonderful contribution to breaking down reservations through joint sporting activity and thus to the sustainable inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities.

The game is played in teams of two: one player with a disability always plays a round together with a member of the Krefeld golf club. For the “non-golfers” there is also a taster golf offer, where the first shots can be practiced on the driving range and putting green.

Children are our future and deserve the best possible education. That is why we are committed to ensuring that high-quality education is accessible to all children and young people with our education support program FERI4Education. One organization that particularly caught our attention in this context is the Elhadj Diouf Foundation (EDF), which the presenter and “voice of German tennis” Matthias Stach told us about during the Bad Homburg Open 2024.

EDF was founded by Senegalese footballer Elhadj Diouf and is particularly committed to sustainability and promoting education in Senegal. Among other things, it supports the construction of schools - most recently the “École Elhadj Mamadou Diouf” in Kaolack, whose operation we support with our donation. 

Every year since 2001, Girls' Day has encouraged countless girls to get a taste of professional fields in which female specialists are severely underrepresented.

We took part for the first time in 2024. "Portfolio managers in action: discover the world of finance at FERI!" - was the motto for the girls who took a look behind the scenes at our company.

We had a lot of fun and are already looking forward to the next one.

Since 2023, FERI has been a supporter of Fondsfrauen, the largest German-speaking network for the promotion and equality of women in the financial industry. 

The network inspires women to aspire to demanding positions with the help of female role models as well as topic-relevant events and studies. To this end, the organization connects women across hierarchical levels, enabling them to regularly exchange ideas and achieve their goals. 

The initiative DUMUSSTKÄMPFEN! (DMK), to which our brand ambassador Andrea Petkovic also gives her heart, enables children with cancer and serious illnesses at Frankfurt University Hospital to receive sports medicine therapy that gives them back their strength and self-esteem during their treatment. We think this is a particularly valuable commitment that we are happy to support. Since 2023, we have therefore been supporting various charity campaigns that benefit the association.

We support Kinderschutzbund Kreisverband Hochtaunus (KSB) since our 2021 Christmas donation. Equal education for children is particularly important to us and this is exactly what Kristina Odak and her team are committed to every day. In spring 2022, we supported KSB through our internal #FERIhilft campaign to set up an education center that helps refugee children and mothers from Ukraine getting off to a good start in Bad Homburg.

In addition to financial support, we are also active ourselves. For example, we read together with the KSB after-school children on the annual nationwide reading aloud day (Bundesweiter Vorlesetag). 

FERI attaches great importance to the topic of education (deeper insights = better education). Therefore, our social commitment is particularly focused on SDG 4 "Quality Education". We are convinced that many other aspects of sustainable social stability and development are positively influenced via qualitative and targeted education.

As part of FERI4Education, we cooperate with schools in Bad Homburg to spark students' interest in careers and courses of study related to sustainability during career information days and workshops.

We put great importance to using clean energy for our daily work and are constantly looking for new ways to further reduce our environmental footprint. For example, we have been sourcing green electricity for all our sites since 2019 and offer our employees a wide range of e-vehicles (cars and e-bikes) to make the journey to work and to customers as emission-free as possible. At the in-house e-pumps at our headquarters in Bad Homburg, these - but also the private e-vehicles of FERI employees - can be charged during working hours so that they can be mobile at all times. 

Since 2020, we have had little striped subtenants in our front garden in Bad Homburg - the FERI bees. What originally served to protect the bee population and thus promote biodiversity quickly developed into a personal matter of the heart for us. The FERI bees are now an integral part of our sustainability concept and additionally delight us several times a year with their "liquid gold". They also find the nectar for this on our green roof areas.