Corporate Volunteering Activities
under the Small Light Campaign

The Small Light Campaign was launched in 1981, the UN International Year of Disabled Persons, as a company volunteer effort by the Daigas Group. Begun with the idea that individual employees should take an interest in their immediate surroundings and give serious thought to resolving the various problems facing their local communities, this campaign is characterized by the fact that employees voluntarily plan, participate in, and sustain activities. Our Group’s business activities are closely tied to the daily lives of everyone in the community. Acknowledging that this fact alone demands greater self-awareness and action from them as members of their local communities, employees are involved in the Small Light Campaign as good corporate citizens.

To promote these activities, we have set up a number of supporting systems, including a Local Community Contribution Category in the President’s Award, “Community Gifts,” and “Volunteer Leave,” as frameworks for improving employee awareness of the need for social contributions and for supporting voluntary activities.

The Small Light Campaign has continued for more than 40 years thanks to support extended by Osaka Gas employees, former employees and local people on a volunteer basis, with its operation funded by donations, including “charity calendar” donations. In FY2022, as a commemorative project for the 40th anniversary of the Small Light Campaign, we published a commemorative magazine and strengthened publicity activities to further expand our activities inside and outside the Company.

The Small Light Fund, set up through the Small Light Campaign, is used in many ways, such as holding cooking classes (Tomoshibi Cooking for Children) to allow children in children’s homes to experience the joy of cooking and learn the importance of food through a cooking experience and providing opportunities for people with disabilities to participate in society.

Apart from the Small Light Fund, the Osaka Gas Tomoshibi Club, established in 2009, utilizes the company’s welfare mechanisms to offer employees opportunities to donate. Employees can donate the welfare points granted them each year by the company to their choices of groups tackling social issues. In FY2022, 670 people donated a total of 2,466 thousand yen, which was given to various groups along with the best wishes of the employees.

In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the Small Light Campaign, we conducted three projects in the hope that people inside and outside the Company will learn more about the Small Light Campaign and raise their awareness to further expand our activities.

We issued the booklet that summarized the history of the Small Light Campaign, from its establishment to the current major activities (support for children and people with disabilities, disaster area support, support for employees’ volunteer activities), as a token of our gratitude to everyone who has supported us for long years.
The commemorative magazine can be downloaded as a PDF file from the page “Corporate Volunteering Activities under the Small Light Campaign” on the Daigas Group’s website.

Panels and tapestries were put up at each business office and showrooms of the Daigas Group in order to introduce the initiatives in the Small Light Campaign and further raise awareness.

We have redesigned used stamp collection boxes installed in workplaces of the Daigas Group. By introducing the activities of the Small Light Campaign and volunteer activities in which Group employees can participate on the side of the boxes, we aim to make the Small Light Campaign more familiar to employees and raise each employee’s mindset for social contribution.