Celebrating its thirtieth anniversary this yr, Millennium Accommodations and Resorts (MHR) has renewed its partnership with Neighborhood Chest (ComChest) with a three-year dedication to donate S$1 million (US$762,514) to help susceptible communities in Singapore.
A associate of ComChest since 2023, MHR will contribute S$500,000 in 2025, adopted by S$250,000 yearly in 2026 and 2027. The donations will help kids with particular wants and at-risk youth, key focus areas for ComChest. MHR may even proceed its help for ComChest’s Change for Charity initiative, which advantages over 200 important social service programmes.
Since 2022, MHR has carried out inclusive hiring practices, actively using people with disabilities as a part of its dedication to creating an equitable office. Division heads are educated to grasp the distinctive wants of those staff members and to match them with roles that go well with their strengths. Duties are tailor-made to supply a supportive surroundings, and every worker is paired with an skilled work buddy and supplied versatile preparations, akin to diminished beginning hours, to make sure clean integration into the workforce.
Millennium Accommodations and Resorts is main by instance in sustainable philanthropy by way of their three-year dedication in partnering Neighborhood Chest to help over 82,000 people and households in want. On high of a longer-term strategy to uplifting lives, their beneficiant contribution additionally qualifies for the SG Provides matching grant, which multiplies the influence of their donations. Neighborhood Chest chairman Chew Sutat
Once we first partnered with ComChest in 2023, our purpose was to increase our influence past the hospitality business. With this pledge, we’re taking a much bigger leap in our dedication to giving, honouring all who’ve supported us all through the years and contributed to our success at the moment. Collectively, we hope to strengthen resilience throughout the group and rally extra companies and people to create extra alternatives to help these in want. Kwek Eik Sheng, Metropolis Developments Restricted group COO and govt director of MHR
Saurabh Prakash, interim chief working officer and chief business officer, MHR, added: The lodge business provides many alternatives and pathways. With the suitable coaching, proper job placement and the suitable help system in place, our particular wants staff have discovered their sense of belonging and adapting nicely to the fast-paced surroundings and excessive quantity of visitor interactions.
MHR’s different initiatives to drive long-term and sustainable social influence embody supporting over 200 programmes from 2025 to 2027, specializing in incapacity inclusion, youth empowerment, household resilience, psychological well being advocacy, and aged care. To mark its renewed partnership with ComChest, MHR will host its Annual Charity Dinner on August 29, 2025, as a part of its thirtieth anniversary celebrations. The corporate can be rallying worker donations for SGSHARE, a nationwide initiative by Neighborhood Chest, and sponsoring a month-to-month meal programme for The Salvation Military’s Gracehaven Kids’s House, making certain kids in want obtain nutritious meals every month.
About Millennium & Copthorne Accommodations
Millennium Accommodations and Resorts (MHR) is the worldwide model of Millennium & Copthorne Accommodations Restricted (M&C), a world lodge firm which owns, manages and operates over 150 inns throughout some 80 areas worldwide all through Asia, Europe, the Center East, New Zealand and the USA. Its properties are in key gateway cities akin to London, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Dubai, Beijing, Shanghai, Seoul, Tokyo, Singapore and Hong Kong. Occupying the perfect areas all over the world, MHR has the right tackle for enterprise and leisure travellers. M&C is the lodge arm of Singapore listed world actual property firm Metropolis Developments Restricted and is a member of the Hong Leong Group.
Millennium Accommodations & Resorts, Center East & Africa at present operates over 50 inns and 15,000 keys, along with 32 inns within the growth pipeline throughout the area. From a single property in Abu Dhabi, Millennium Accommodations & Resorts, Center East & Africa has expanded into numerous neighbouring locations, cultivating partnerships with respected house owners, and is now acknowledged as one of many quickest rising lodge administration corporations within the area. For extra data, please go to www.millenniumhotels.com.
