Building and Deepening Long-term Relationships / Doing Right by Our Communities
Doing Right by Our Communities
UOB is committed to supporting the social development of communities in which we operate through the focus areas of education, children and art. Through strategic partnerships with our community stakeholders, our CSR programmes reflect our purpose-led, outcome-based and long-term orientation towards community stewardship and corporate philanthropy.
Janet Young
Head of Group Channels and Digitalisation,
Strategic Communications and Brand
Head of Group Channels and Digitalisation,
Strategic Communications and Brand
UOB’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts aim to drive sustainable good through our regional UOB Heartbeat programme, guided by our 3Ps framework of corporate philanthropy, stakeholder partnerships and employee participation. We are committed to supporting the social development of communities in which we operate through the focus areas of education, children and art. These areas are crucial to the advancement and well-being of society as we build the future of ASEAN.
Through strategic partnerships with our community stakeholders, our CSR programmes reflect our purpose-led, outcome-based and long-term orientation towards community stewardship and corporate philanthropy. Our ultimate goal is to empower, enrich and uplift lives across the region for inclusive growth and sustainable progress.
Employee volunteerism is a key pillar of our CSR efforts, where our employees can choose from a range of volunteering activities to offer their skills in ways that they are confident in and will be directly relevant and impactful to the beneficiaries.
Through strategic partnerships with our community stakeholders, our CSR programmes reflect our purpose-led, outcome-based and long-term orientation towards community stewardship and corporate philanthropy. Our ultimate goal is to empower, enrich and uplift lives across the region for inclusive growth and sustainable progress.
Employee volunteerism is a key pillar of our CSR efforts, where our employees can choose from a range of volunteering activities to offer their skills in ways that they are confident in and will be directly relevant and impactful to the beneficiaries.
More than
90,000
volunteering hours contributed by our employees across the Group in 2025
A UOB Vietnam volunteer guiding villagers in Perak, Malaysia on managing household savings by switching to solar energy under our Kampung Solar programme by UOB Malaysia.
Our 2025 achievements
Impacted more than
350,000
beneficiaries including children, youths, families, persons with special needs, seniors, artists and other members of public
Achieved an average of
2.8
volunteer hours per employee per year across the Group
Impacted more than
1,500
artists across Asia in 2025
