CSR Archives - Latitude Brokers

Another Brick in the (Great) Wall for Latitude Brokers

Following our participation to the Sailors Society Hong Kong Challenge in the past 3 years, hiking across HK, we decided to take the challenge to the next level and join the Sailors Society Great Wall of China Challenge for their 200th anniversary. Two Latitude teams entered the Challenge, one from Hong Kong and one from Singapore, and we all congregated ...

A very successful Festive Shipping Food Drive !

Following the success of our previous collaboration with West of England P&I Club to raise funds for Feeding Hong Kong over Christmas drinks, we have decided this year to take it up a notch and to coordinate our Second Shipping Food Drive at the same time. It was all made easy and even more beneficial to FHK thanks to the online ...

Latitude Brokers donates Time, Money and Energy to Sailors Society!

As a supporter of Sailors’ Society since we launched Latitude Brokers, we are raising money for them, for the third year in a row, by hiking 28kms across Hong Kong Island at the Ambassadors’ Trek in October 2017. In addition, we are on the organizing committee for the first time this year, so we are hoping for an excellent turnout and ...

Latitude coordinates the First Shipping Food Drive for Feeding Hong Kong

In June, Latitude Brokers coordinated the First Shipping Food Drive for Feeding Hong Kong. Feeding Hong Kong work with food retailers, distributors and manufacturers to rescue surplus that would otherwise be discarded and re-distribute it to the people in need. But from week to week, the volumes of food donated to Feeding Hong Kong go up and down and the ...

Latitude completes Sailors’ Society 32 kms trek in gruesome weather conditions

Saturday 5th December: It was a blustery day when the Latitude team assembled at dawn with 34 other teams, for a 32 kms journey along the Hong Kong trail to raise money to support the Sailors’ Society. After 3 months of training in the heat, and under blue skies, the conditions were a shocker ! But Latitude support team had been ...

Latitude goes Jamming with Feeding Hong Kong for Christmas

As part of the festive season, we helped Feeding Hong Kong make 2000 jars of jam to be given out to low-income families in December. The sacks contain a number of homemade items and each jar is personalized by the volunteers! Our own Kay Chan said “I am very glad to be one of the volunteers participating in the jam making session ...

Latitude Brokers in Sailors’ Society epic 35km hike across Hong Kong on 5th December 2015

BIG thanks to all our Corporate Sponsors who are now emblazoned across our shirts!!! Nepa, Waltons & Morse, India International Insurance, Ironshore, Thomas Miller, Skuld, TT Club, Affinity Shipping LLP, UK P&I Club, RPC, SART and Charterers Club…you’ve put us well on our way to our target of HKD125,000 (around GBP10,000)!! All the Founding Partners will be hiking on 5th December, with ...

Latitude receives recognition for our work with Feeding Hong Kong

As many of our clients and partners will be aware, we have been working with Feeding Hong Kong, a local food bank charity, for over a year now. Feeding Hong Kong takes surplus food that would otherwise be thrown away, and redistributes that food to charities feeding people in need all across Hong Kong. The statistics are staggering – over ...