What we stand for
Our vision
Our ambition is to thoughtfully be an inspiration to our environment by investing in the future of children.
Our core values are:
- open and engaged
- develop and change
- collaborative and creative
- energetic and driven
Corporate Social Responsibility
Our mission 'care for each other' says a lot about the organization we want to be. We are a socially involved organization in the municipality of Katwijk and surroundings by offering professional and quality child care. In this, we make an important contribution to society for:
- Parents, by being able to participate in the workforce and/or pursue a course of study.
- Children, by Pre-school education and through collaboration with, for example, the Center for Youth and Family (CJG), the library, the municipality, sports clubs, and social service organizations.
- Employees whom we provide with training and employment opportunities within the municipalities of Katwijk and Noordwijk.
Furthermore, we promote the health of children and staff by:
- Providing employees with information about wellness and contributing toward a gym membership or sports equipment.
- Encouraging children to be physically active, organizing indoor and outdoor activities, collaborating with sports clubs, partnering with soccer clubs, providing healthy food, and encouraging children to drink water.
Branch Association for Social Child Care (BMK).
Foundation Childcare Katwijk is a social childcare organization and, from that perspective, a member of the Branch Association for Social Child Care (Branchevereniging Maatschappelijke Kinderopvang). We explicitly choose to run our business in such a way that profits are reinvested in the organization. With the profits we can ensure sustainable quality and enable innovation.
Social childcare organizations want to offer childcare to all children, even in those neighborhoods where it is not profitable but children do need it. This fits with our sense of responsibility as a social player in the municipality of Katwijk.
The environment and charities
The environment and charities also have our attention:
- We separate waste and reduce our waste as much as possible.
- We use energy-efficient lighting.
- Through Greenchoice, we use green energy.
- We try to share our spaces with others as much as possible.
- We collect empty cartridges and cell phones, encouraging various collection events.
- We support local initiatives and partner with Jongeren op Gezond Gewicht (JOGG) Katwijk.