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Foundations

As a good corporate citizen, RTL Group supports worthy causes and organisations through its own foundations. This support focuses on three main areas that reflect the Group’s role as a major family-friendly media company: creative freedom and media freedom, help for children in need, and education. It is part of the Group’s effort to maintain good relationships with local non-governmental organisations, schools, and other stakeholders and to foster local engagement with charities. Our foundations and activities are often directly involved in the charities’ operations.

Overview of our foundations

Stiftung RTL – Wir helfen Kindern

Founded in 1996, RTL Deutschland’s 'Stiftung RTL – Wir helfen Kindern e.V.' (Registered Association) has three objectives: improve the prospects for children and young people worldwide, alleviate child poverty in Germany, and provide disaster relief.

Since 1996, ‘Stiftung RTL – Wir helfen Kindern’ e.V. has raised more than € 221 million for underprivileged children in Germany and around the world. Donations made to TV telethon RTL-Spendenmarathon – which ran for 24 hours in 2021 – are distributed to various child welfare projects, including RTL Kinderhäuser (RTL Children’s Homes).

Click here to visit the Stiftung RTL – Wir helfen Kindern website.

Fondation M6

Since 2010, Fondation M6 has supported prisoners as they re-join their communities and rebuild their lives. Its work centres on three areas: helping people get back to work, addressing illiteracy and access to education, and re-socialisation through cultural activities.

Fondation M6 assumes its social responsibility by focusing on the general public – the channel’s traditional public – and with the prison population through audiovisual support initiatives offered to prisoners, as well as rehabilitation projects introduced by the Justice Department.

Click here to visit the Fondation M6 website.

RTL pomaže djeci

Since 2006, the RTL pomaže djeci (RTL Helps Children) charity fund has supported 250 humanitarian projects, helping over 600,000 sick, disabled and underprivileged children across Croatia. Working with various non-profit organisations, it helps raise money from private and corporate donors, and builds vital facilities, such as rehabilitation centres, schools, kindergartens, libraries and playgrounds. The fund has also provided toys, sports gear, musical instruments and medical equipment.

Click here to visit the RTL pomaže djeci website.

Fundación Atresmedia

Fundación Atresmedia aims to improve living conditions for children in need all around the world. It was created by Atresmedia in Spain, in 2005, and has since supported thousands of projects, studies and conferences.

Click here to visit the Fundación Atresmedia website.

10th anniversary of RTL pomaže djeci

RTL Group

RTL Group is a leader across broadcast, content and digital, with interests in 67 television channels, ten streaming services and 38 radio stations. RTL Group also produces and distributes content throughout the world. The television portfolio of Europe’s largest commercial broadcaster includes RTL in Germany, M6 in France, the RTL channels in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Croatia and Hungary, and Antena 3 in Spain. RTL Group’s families of TV channels are either the number one or number two in eight European countries. RTL Group’s largest unit – RTL Deutschland – is Germany’s first cross-media champion, operating across TV, streaming, radio and digital publishing with premium brands such as Stern and Geo. The Group’s flagship radio station is RTL in France, and it also owns or has interests in other radio stations in France, Germany, Belgium, Spain and Luxembourg. RTL Group’s content business, Fremantle, is one of the world’s largest creators, producers and distributors of scripted and unscripted content. Fremantle has an international network of teams across production and distribution, operating in more than 25 countries, producing 12,700 hours of original programming and distributing over 30,000 hours of content worldwide. Combining the streaming services of its broadcasters (such as RTL+, 6play, Salto, Videoland), the digital video company We Are Era, and Fremantle’s more than 360 YouTube channels, RTL Group has become the leading European media company in digital video. RTL Group also owns the ad-tech businesses Smartclip and Yospace, as well as the streaming-tech company Bedrock. RTL AdConnect is RTL Group’s international advertising sales house. Bertelsmann is the majority shareholder of RTL Group, which is listed on the Luxembourg and Frankfurt stock exchanges and in the SDAX stock index.

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