Gîtes de France Initiatives
Gîtes de France® pursues its actions and reinforces its values of solidarity and sharing
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Gîtes de France® Initiatives is taking action to support the departments affected by the firesLet’s all support Gîtes de France® ownersThe wildfires currently ravaging several regions of France are having a significant impact not only on many residents, but also on some property owners within the Gîtes de France® network. In response to this situation, Gîtes de France® Initiatives, the network’s support association, is taking action to provide them with practical support. Thanks to everyone’s generosity, it is raising funds to support the affected owners and help them cope with the consequences of this disaster. ✊A solidarity fund to take actionIn collaboration with the relevant local authorities, a survey of the affected properties is currently underway to assess precisely:
The funds raised will be used to provide support to the hardest-hit property owners, according to the needs identified. 💡Good to knowGîtes de France® Initiatives is a public benefit endowment fund,, which allows donors to receive a tax receipt generated automatically by the donation platform.
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The Gîtes de France Initiatives was established to support, promote and assist local community projects relating to the environment in the broadest sense, such as, for example, theimproving health, protecting local areas, ecology, heritage preservation and conservation, civic education, sustainable development, energy, the cultural sector… The social purpose is broad so that the endowment fund can support a various fields linked to the values of Gîtes de France®. Our owners, spread throughout France, are true ambassadors for their local areas, and through this fund, we wish to offer them our support and assist any community projects they may be aware of, in the preservation and promotion of local heritage and traditional skills.
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Gîtes de France® Initiatives supports the work of sport and health which foster social connections with the charity Activ’Sport
The Activ’Sport charity’Sport, which specialises in sport and health, is implementing numerous initiatives to make physical activity accessible to everyone, particularly older people, people with disabilities and those with chronic illnesses. Through its ‘Sport pour elles’ programme, it focuses more specifically on isolated women, âaged between 20 and 50, living in the priority neighbourhood of Kermoysan in Quimper.
Gîtes de France® Initiatives contributes to promoting the heritage of the municipality of Lacapelle-Cabanac
The second winner of the call for projects from the Gîtes de France® Initiatives, in the ‘Heritage Preservation’ category, is a heritage tile mural project in Lacapelle-Cabanac, inspired by the Napoleonic land register dated 25 October 1838, designed by theartist Bernard de Frémineville; this monumental work will depict a reconstruction of the village as it was during the Napoleonic era. Situated on the wall of the village hall, in the heart of the village and close to the market, it will become a major cultural and tourist landmark. This project isforms part of a wider initiative to promote rural heritage and revitalise the local area, by offering free and permanent access to a heritage artwork, enabling residents, walkers and visitors to discoverlocal history, whilst improving the quality of life and supporting local economic development by enhancing the appeal of the town centre and its market.
The Gîtes de France® Initiatives endowment fund supports the ZimZam association through its social project
Promoting cultural heritage thanks to financial support from Gîtes de France® Initiatives
Solidarity campaign for Mayotte
Gîtes de France® Initiatives supports the creation of Maison Symbiose
Gîtes de France® Initiatives contributes to the restoration of heritage
A donation of €2,500 has been awarded to enable the restoration of aniconic heritage site in the Gard region, a cazelle. These dry-stone huts were used by winegrowers or shepherds to shelter from the elements. The cazelle to be restored is located in the commune of Campestre-et-Luc; over time, it has completely collapsed, even though it is regularly visited by tourists and local residents.
Gîtes de France® Initiatives is supporting those affected by the disaster in Turkey and Syria
Following the earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on Monday 6 February 2023, causing thousands of deaths in both countries and extensive damage – the full extent of which is still emerging – Gîtes de France® Initiatives wished to offer its support, through its network of committed owners and its customers, by launchinga new fundraising campaign. The funds raised were donated in full to Secours Populaire Français, which, together with its local partners, provides practical and rapid support and solidarity to those affected by the disaster.
Gîtes de France® Initiatives on the Route du Rhum
To mark the 12th edition of the Route du Rhum, SAS Gîtes de France in Brittany and Gîtes de France Initiatives are joining forces to organise a fundraising campaign across the entire network – for staff and owners alike – in aid of the MécEnfants du Monde Children’s Heart Surgery Initiative, which enables children with heart defects from underprivileged countries to undergo surgery in France when this is impossible in their own countries due to a lack of technical or financial resources. As part of this initiative, Gîtes de France® donated €5,623. Thank you to the entire network for its support.In the face of the human tragedy currently unfolding on our doorstep, Gîtes de France® Initiatives has decided to launch a fundraising campaign to help Ukraine. Thanksto the generosity of our network, the sum of €55,000 has beendonated to Secours Populaire, which, together with its local partners, is providing concrete and rapid support and solidarity to the Ukrainian people through its missions and activities on the ground.
Gîtes de France Initiatives X Je pars, tu pars, il part
Established in October 2014 on the initiative of several tourism professionals, the endowment fund &“Je pars, tu pars, il part” aims to facilitate access to holidays and leisure activities for those who are deprived of them, by bringing together the efforts not only of individuals but also of tourism professionals and leisure service providers through the establishment of partnerships and fundraising initiatives.
For 2022, Gîtes de France Initiatives has decided to join forces with the “Je pars, tu pars, il part” foundation by setting up an online fundraising page. The €8,200 raised and donated to the Foundation will be used to fund holidays for disadvantaged families in 2023, to give them a little hope and enable them to discover our beautiful French regions!
Gîtes de France Initiatives supports the fight against student poverty
In 2021, the Gîtes de France Initiatives endowment fund decided to support the FAGE (Fédération des Associations Générales Etudiantes), an organisation whose aim is to ensure equal opportunities for success within the education system and which works tirelesslyto combat precarious living conditions, with a view to improving living and study conditions for all students.
Gîtes de France Initiatives has pledged its support to them by funding projects to the tune of 5,450&to support and expand the work of student associations across France that are taking action against the consequences of the pandemic, through the opening of AGORAé, spaces forexchange and solidarity, comprising a communal space open to all and a solidarity grocery shop accessible on the basis of social criteria, providing essential goodsand social cohesion. Run and managed by young people, for young people, the AGORAés are non-stigmatising spaces œworking to ensure equal opportunities for access to and success in higher education.
Gîtes de France Initiatives is working to support healthcare workers
Following the health crisis we have been through, the Gîtes de France Initiatives endowment fund has donated €6,600 to the charity Solidarité avec les Soignants. Founded in 2020, at the height of the crisis, by Anne Roumanoff and Jean-Pierre Bansard, this charity, thanksthanks to the donations it has received, distributes protective equipment and helps to improve the daily lives of healthcare staff and the facilities in their break rooms, such as microwaves, kettles, coffee machines, lounge chairs, tables and chairs…