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About This Report & Contents
About SET and Sustainable SET Development
The SET Social Impact Gym 2020 Project received the support of 34 top executives within SET and mai. These executives volunteered as lecturers and mentors to offer their knowledge, experiences and techniques for successful social enterprise operations.
Workability: Fostering Cooperation Between the Social and Business Sectors
The SET Social Impact Platform is an intermediary for exchanging knowledge, sharing information, and seeking cooperation to brainstorm, discuss, debate, and co-create solutions to social problems.
SET focuses on facilitating partnerships with business operators and stimulates innovation from social entrepreneurs by offering a variety of collaboration models and business deals including employment, marketing and sales channel support, and business consultations. This further includes funding for social enterprises in various areas such as education, agriculture, community development, support for disadvantaged groups, and environmental management. In 2020, SET Social Impact generated over 80 business deals.
Social Responsibility Activities
SET’s social responsibility activities cover three areas: Promoting Youth Music and Sports Abilities, Public Hazard and Disaster Mitigation, and Helping the Impoverished and Disabled. Key accomplishments in 2020 are outlined below.
1. Promoting Youth Music and Sports Abilities SET Youth Musical Competition
SET provided support to the College of Music, Mahidol University, in organizing the “23rd SET Youth Musical Competition,” which provides the opportunity for musically talented youths to demonstrate and enhance
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their skills for the national and international stage, and to encourage creative expression amongst youth. In 2020, SET promoted and communicated the Competition through various digital media outlets and music networks to attract more youth applicants. This resulted in an increase of competitor numbers to 659 people, a 17% increase from 2019.
SET Table Tennis for Everyone Program
SET, in collaboration with the Thailand Table Tennis Association, organized the SET Star Junior Table Tennis Program for the seventh consecutive year. The Program intends to and focuses on enhancing the skills and abilities of junior table tennis athletes through various competitions. In 2020, important competitions included the SET All Thailand Table Tennis Championship 2020 Circuit 1, SET Best of Thailand Royal Cup 2020, and SET Table Tennis Championship 2020 @THAMMASAT.
Furthermore, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic in February 2020, SET supported athletes in their preparation for the Olympic Games, and organized trainings to increase the capabilities of table tennis competition judges. Across the seven years that SET has organized this Program, it has helped to create opportunities for new athletes and elevate the potential of Thai youth sports to that of international levels. To date, over 28,000 athletes and members of the general public have participated in the Program.
2. Public Hazard and Disaster Mitigation
Following the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, since 2020 SET has launched the SET United Against COVID-19 Project to provide assistance to groups impacted by the crisis, as follows:
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Number of athletes and members of the public who benefited from the SET Table Tennis for Everyone Program
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