Bank Saint Petersburg pays special attention to charitable and sponsorship projects, supports the cultural and social development of its regions of presence, and takes part in the restoration of city and federal monuments. Thanks to the Bank, 31 theatres and museums in St Petersburg were able to stage new performances, hold music festivals and organise exhibitions.

The Bank once again supported the 14th St Petersburg International Open-Air Festival of Opera Classics ‘Opera for All’. This year the festival presented four performances – Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Strauss’s Salome, Auber’s The Black Domino, and Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina. Thanks to the Bank’s sponsorship, the festival remains free for the public.

One of the enduring symbols of St Petersburg has for many years been the pair of swans on the Karpiev Pond in the Summer Garden, which spend the winter at Leningrad Zoo and live in the Summer Garden from June to the end of October. For the second year running, Bank Saint Petersburg has committed to financing the swans’ upkeep over the summer, and throughout the warm season Elisey and Lyubava continue to delight residents and visitors of the city.

As part of its support for cultural heritage, large-scale restoration work continued in 2025 on the Catherine Curtain Wall of the Peter and Paul Fortress, a federal-level monument, with the Bank taking an active part in financing the works and planning to continue supporting this significant project.

At the Bank’s expense, 166 schools, kindergartens and leisure centres were equipped with modern interactive equipment for the development of children and adolescents. The Bank also supported healthcare institutions, purchasing equipment and medicines for more than 130 medical institutions; the emergency surgical unit of the City Mariinsky Hospital was refurbished using the Bank’s funds, and 24 residential social service institutions (psychoneurological boarding schools) received developmental aids to help patients maintain a comfortable lifestyle and mental activity.

The Bank’s long-term social programmes also continued in 2025. As in previous years, the Bank supported the Kolpino Centre for Assistance to Family Upbringing No. 9, helping children receive additional professional education and supporting their treatment, recreation and career guidance, and regularly rewards the Centre’s talented teachers; as a New Year’s gift, the Bank renovated the lighting system and replaced furniture in the Centre’s living quarters.

As part of its support for the ‘Help for Stray Dogs’ charitable foundation, the Bank provides monthly assistance for the upkeep of the shelter’s animals. In 2025, the Bank’s management also gave the foundation a vehicle for transporting animals – since the shelter’s charges are housed across several sites and need to travel regularly to the treatment centre, this has made moving the dogs significantly more comfortable and convenient.

Since 2012, in addition to its traditional charity events, the Bank has supported its employees in volunteer projects. In 2025, the Bank’s employees took part in a number of major initiatives, including:

• Running lessons, master classes, and socialisation, adaptation and career guidance sessions for children at the Centre for Assistance to Family Upbringing No. 9. This volunteer project has existed since 2015: Bank employees visit the sponsored Centre, hold master classes, excursions and joint trips to cultural and sporting events for the children, with career guidance and visits to enterprises – actively supported by the Bank’s corporate clients – forming an important part of the project, which aims to help socialise children and prepare them for adult life;
• Helping restore the Peter and Paul Fortress, through both financial assistance and direct physical labour. As in previous years, ahead of St Petersburg’s birthday more than 50 Bank employees, including both staff and management, spent a day off volunteering on the Fortress grounds;
• Taking part in the nationwide ‘Giving Tuesday’ campaign in 2025: the Bank doubled the amount of donations made by employees during the campaign to the ‘Help for Stray Dogs’ charitable foundation, and thanks to BSPB’s contribution, the foundation’s veterinary treatment centre will be able to purchase an OMEGA 600 ophthalmoscope in 2026 – the lightest device available for accurate vision diagnostics to the far periphery of the retina;
• Taking part in the Bank’s traditional New Year charity event, the ‘Tree of Good Deeds’: Bank employees collected several large bags of gifts worth more than RUB 130,000 for the beneficiaries of the ‘Kolibri’, ‘Ulitsa Mira’ and ‘Dobrodonik’ foundations;
• Fulfilling the wishes of five children from different regions of Russia as part of the ‘Dreams Come True’ campaign run by the ‘Bumazhnaya Ptitsa’ foundation (a children’s and adult hospice), thanks to Bank employees and management;
• Taking part in the Martha and Mary Convent’s ‘Secret Santa’ charity event through the Bank’s Moscow branch: gifts this year went to beneficiaries of three projects – the Elizabethan Kindergarten for children with cerebral palsy, the Family Placement Centre for foster children, and the Children’s Mobile Palliative Care Service for terminally ill children.

Recognising the importance of building a healthy social environment, Bank Saint Petersburg will continue to take an active part in environmentally and socially significant projects, in the implementation of its traditional charitable programmes, and in encouraging its employees’ volunteer initiatives.