WEPA Foundation
Charitable action beyond the family business
With its products, the WEPA Group contributes to well-being and a safe feeling of hygiene for millions of people. The WEPA Foundation was established to make a long-term social and societal contribution in line with this aspiration, above and beyond the company. It is dedicated to promoting charitable initiatives in the fields of hygiene, environmental and social sustainability, lifelong learning and family entrepreneurship – and creates added value both in the locality and in a wider context.
Established
December 2020
Founder
Family holding of the Krengel entrepreneurial family
Type of foundation
Non-profit corporate
foundation
Fields of action
Hygiene, sustainability, lifelong learning and family entrepreneurship
Hygiene
At WEPA, we contribute to the well-being of millions of people each and every day with our hygiene products. With the WEPA Foundation, we endeavour to maintain, safeguard and improve hygiene standards in our society. We therefore drive forward projects that promote public health as well as research and science in the hygiene sector.
Sustainability
Sustainability is the basis for development aligned to the future. It means assuming ecological and social responsibility and facing up to the major challenges: climate change as well as scarcity of drinking water and resources. As a company we wish to fulfil this in a responsible and future-oriented way, and, with the Foundation, simultaneously support charitable projects from the science and research sectors that address these aspects.
Life-long learning
Globalisation and digitisation are accelerating developments and changes in all sectors, and technical progress can replace previous knowledge and render it unusable within a short space of time. Those who are not prepared to learn will miss the boat – and this makes education our most important resource. We therefore promote topics and projects from science and research, as well as scholarships and further education programmes dedicated to the topic of “lifelong learning”.
Family entrepreneurship
Family companies and entrepreneurship form a supporting pillar of our national economy. Without this entrepreneurial spirit and the establishment of the family business WEPA in 1948, the WEPA Foundation would not have been possible in the first place. In terms of “family entrepreneurship”, the WEPA Foundation is dedicated to research and science regarding family companies, entrepreneurial families and entrepreneurship.
A trend study by the Zukunftsinstitut on behalf of the WEPA Foundation on future theses relating to hygiene, lifelong learning, family entrepreneurship and sustainability. The study is dedicated to the future trends that will characterise the Foundation’s thematic areas, as well as the opportunities and challenges that arise from these.
