The Club appreciates the vital importance of community services and participates actively in providing timely, multifaceted support for evolving social welfare needs.

In recent years, unemployment has been growing in Hong Kong's difficult economic environment, worsened by the outbreak of SARS. To help unemployed Comprehensive Social Security Assistance recipients and those who are likely to become recipients to find jobs and become self-reliant again, the Trust partnered with the Social Welfare Department in July 2003 to launch the Intensive Employment Assistance Projects. The initiative, funded by HK$100 million each by the Trust and the Lotteries Fund, will benefit an estimated 27,000 people.

With a further donation of HK$3.1 million, the Harmony House was able to extend its crisis intervention programme for another two years. The "Seed of Hope" team, first funded by the Trust in 2001, are stationed in hospitals to identify victims of family violence, mostly battered women, to offer supportive services to victims through a team approach.

In support of Government's anti-drug efforts, the Trust donated HK$50.58 million towards the second stage of the development of the Drug Information Resource Centre. The Centre, now renamed Hong Kong Jockey Club Drug InfoCentre, was officially opened in June 2004.

Donations 2003 - 2004