29^th December 2023 – As in previous years, the owner of the VakVarjú restaurant family, Rudolf Semsei and his wife Eszter Dobay volunteered at the end of December for the Just One Service’s festive lunch, which was organised for our most vulnerable fellow human beings in the day shelter of the help centre in Izabella Street.
The food was lovingly prepared and delivered by the staff of the BlindFur restaurant chain. “It was touching to see the sparkle in the eyes of the people, the gratitude for the fact that we really take care of them, because everyone received a kind word and a thoughtfulness from us,” said Rudolf Semsei, owner of the VakVarjú restaurant family.
Our donation: 300 thousand HUF

29^th December 2023 – At the end of the year, our VakVarjú #CharityService took off once again to host a three-course festive lunch for the covid orphans, half-orphans and their companions supported by the István Regőczi Foundation at the VígVarjú.
Since the beginning, our charity has been following the caring activities of the foundation, which is dedicated to supporting children and their families who have lost one or both parents in the covid epidemic. We appreciate the dedicated work of Anita Herczegh, wife of former President János Áder, and her colleagues, and we were delighted to help them round off a full-day programme in the capital with a delicious lunch for their rural beneficiaries.

We launched our VakVarjú #CharityService in 2020, just in time for the pandemic, with the aim of supporting families in difficult circumstances as much as we can.
Supporting initiatives that help children is a priority, not only during the Christmas period, but throughout the year. “As a father of four, these collaborations are also key for me, and I am grateful that we had the opportunity to make the last days of the year a gastronomic memory of the Regőczi Foundation’s beneficiaries’ trip to Pest”, said Rudolf Semsei, owner of the VakVarjú restaurant family.

17^th December 2023 – A grateful man is a happy man.
We are very happy and grateful to you, that with your help we were able to support the charitable initiative of the public media “Good to be Good!” with 1 million HUF, and with it the Semmelweis University Foundation, which supports the development of premature babies and children with congenital malformations. Thank you, it was an uplifting feeling to help children in need together!
(Photo: MTVA)
Our donation: 1 million HUF

30^th November 2023 – In the run-up to Christmas, our VakVarjú #CharityService is particularly active, on behalf of our guests, colleagues and group of companies, this time we handed over 50 pieces – puzzles, development toys, sticker books, crayons, perfumes, sweets – shoeboxes to the St. Elisabeth Charity of Pestszenterzsébet, so that our gifts could reach the needy of the district.

Our donation was handed over by Rudolf Semsei, owner of the VakVarjú restaurant family, to Zsolt Farkas, head of the local charity group.
This year the VakVarjú Csónakház acted as a pick-up point for the shoebox campaign, and we are grateful to our guests who brought in their shoeboxes, loaded with all the good things on earth.
Our donation: 250 thousand HUF

15^th October 2023 –  Once again, our VakVarjú #CharityService flew out to host a celebratory lunch for orphans and disadvantaged children supported by Baptist Charity on World Poverty Day. After a plea for help from the charity, our chicks nesting in the TV2 headquarters, the Poppy Blossom team were delighted to cook a menu of fruit soup, cornflakes with chicken breast and pancakes, which fed 22 children and 3 of their companions.

29^th June 2023 – The VakVarjú #CharityService contributed to the organization of the summer camp in körösbánya for children living in the homes of the St. Francis of Deva Foundation with durable food.
The parcel, which included canned fruit and vegetables, dry pasta, soup powder, preserves, cocoa powder and pickles, was handed over by Rudolf Semsei (right), owner of the VakVarjú restaurant family, to János Gianone, the main volunteer organizer of the summer camp.
Our donation: 150 thousand HUF

28^th June 2023 – Once again, our VakVarjú #CharityService took off to fly 120 portions of casseroles to the Day Care Centre of the Kürt Street Shelter Foundation. After a request for help from the foundation, our colleagues were delighted to cook the home-cooked meal, which provided 120 homeless people with a warm meal.

23^th February 2023-  Our VakVarjú #CharityService didn’t forget to fly either, this time a generous donation from our group’s employees flew to the Don’t Give Up Foundation thanks to our owner Rudolf Semsei. We raised money at a company party held on 30 January for Budapest’s first organisation for people with disabilities, donating the entire proceeds of our raffle tickets to them. Our joint donation was accepted by Géza Dely, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Nem Adom Fel Foundation and spokesman Szabolcs Papp.
Donation collected with the help of our colleagues: 300 000 HUF

We supported the public media’s fundraising programme Good to be Good!
In December 2022, in less than a month, thanks to the helpfulness and generous support of our guests, we supported the fundraising programme of the public media “Good to be Good!” with HUF 800,000, which enabled us to help the National Association of the Hungarian Blind and Visually Impaired.

In the five restaurants of the VakVarjú restaurant family, we donated 100 HUF from the price of each meal, chosen from the unique offers of our chefs, to the fundraising programme “Good to be Good!” between 14 November and 10 December. Together with our guests, we raised 800 000 HUF.

Our donation was presented by Rudolf Semsei, Managing Director of Budapest Party Service Kft., owner of the VakVarjú restaurant family and Dobay Cukrászda, on Duna TV.

“Community building is one of the most important roles nowadays, when at a given moment the guests of our restaurants and our staff can join together for a noble cause. It was uplifting to see the full commitment of my colleagues to the Good to Be Good! programme and equally moving to see the enthusiastic and selfless support of our guests for our charity efforts, for which we thank them. Such collective donations also make us realise that we should be grateful to fate for putting us in a position to support those less fortunate than ourselves,” said Rudolf Semsei.

After the completion of the “Big Weight Loss 2023” challenge, on 13 June, thanks to our colleagues, the VakVarjú #CharityService group of companies flew a donation of 300.000 HUF to the Suhanj! Foundation, which will help our disabled and disabled peers to experience the liberating joy of movement in their everyday lives. The 12-week company challenge was aimed at encouraging employees to adopt a healthier lifestyle. The employees did not only lose weight for their own health, as the total weight they lost during the challenge – 200 kilograms – was transformed into a Forint, which was handed over by Rudolf Semsei, Managing Owner of Budapest Party Service Kft., to Peter Gusztos, the CEO of SUHANJ! Foundation co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Trustees.
The money went to a very good cause, and it is planned to buy a tandem bike that will allow visually impaired people to experience the joy of cycling.

22^th December 2022 – Rudolf Semsei, owner of the VakVarjú restaurants, and his wife Eszter Dobay organized a festive lunch for our homeless fellow human beings in the day shelter of the help centre in Izabella Street as volunteers of the Csak Egyet Szolgálat. The food was lovingly prepared and delivered by our colleagues working in the VakVarjú Csónakház.

“This year our VakVarjú #CharityService has already supported people in need to the tune of nearly two million HUF, but for me this is still one of the most memorable experiences and most moving moments of the year. It’s touching to see the sparkle in our guests’ eyes, the gratitude for being truly taken into account. That we talk to them, care about them, or simply call them by name. Because even though they may not have wealth or an existence, they have a name! Here, every person gets a kind word or a thoughtful word with their meal.
And the most wonderful joy was when I met a fellow waiter at the ceremony, who, now a volunteer, told me that he was also rescued from the streets and from drugs by the association.” Rudolf Semsei, owner.
Our donation: 40 thousand HUF

20^th December 2022 – Our VakVarjú #CharityService is still going strong, this time before Christmas we handed over 10 shoeboxes – containing puzzles, development toys, sticker books, crayons and BlindCrow mugs – to the St. Elisabeth Charity group of Pestszenterzsébet, so that our gifts could reach the needy children of the district.

Our donation was handed over by Rudolf Semsei, owner of the VakVarjú restaurant family, to Zsolt Farkas, head of the local charity group, and Judit Búza, head of the Pesterzsébet Family and Children’s Association, and Child Welfare Service and Centre, and parish priest Zsolt Czap.
Our donation: 40 thousand HUF

15^th December 2022 – Our VakVarjú #CharityService has taken off to celebrate Christmas
20 parcels of non-perishable food to support the young children and their families at the Wesley János Nursery School.

The facility – known as the ‘homeless nursery’ – opened in 2003 and is attended by children living in extreme poverty or in need. The permanent staff currently numbers 29 and the little ones are the most delighted, is having something to eat.
Our goodie bags include jam, tea, dry pasta, syrup, sugar, flour and sweets.
Our donation was handed over by Rudolf Semsei, owner of the VakVarjú restaurant family, to Mónika Jankó, head of the kindergarten.
Our donation: 100 thousand HUF

17^th October 2022 – We were delighted to support the Bethesda Children’s Hospital‘s Health Challenge programme, in which 274 employees of the hospital took part in a complex six-month health promotion programme, including individual and team challenges. The participants improved their health after completing the exercises, which will enable the hospital staff to provide more support to the patients they serve in the areas of prevention and health promotion.
The team prize for the Health Challenge was a 60 000 HUF VakVarjú gift voucher.

25^th May 2022 – We donated to the Hungarian Interchurch Aid
Once again the VakVarjú #CharityService took off, this time we tried to support the work of the Hungarian Interchurch Aid and help the refugees from Ukraine together with our guests.

We created the VakVarjú #CharityService in 2019 because we believe in the power of community solidarity. In April, we donated 100 HUF from the price of each meal at the VakVarjú restaurant family’s nests to the charity, choosing from our chefs’ unique offerings. Together with our guests we raised 300 000 HUF. We are confident that this will help to alleviate the suffering of the refugee families.
When we received our donation, it was a special experience to learn about the humanitarian work of the organisation and its many humanitarian activities from Kristóf Gáncs, Director of Communications.
“It is important for us that we could help the Hungarian Interchurch Aid  with our donation and through them, we hope, we can alleviate a little bit the situation of the refugee families. The power of community cooperation was demonstrated once again, as our guests were active participants in our initiative, for which we thank them. – said Semsei Rudolf, owner of the VakVarjú restaurant family.

28^th February 2022 – Once again, the VakVarjú #CharityService took off to help refugees in need as quickly as possible.

On the request of St. Imre High School our staff and the VakVarjú family has joined the Mathias Corvinus Collegium’s fundraiser. Thanks to our team’s efforts, our donation package was collected within 24 hours. It was uplifting to see that the VakVarjú packages were further enriched by the employees’ own donations. And our charity packages were placed in highly organised hands as they were sent right away to the refugee centres during the night.

We will continue fundraising as much as we can to help as many people as possible in this terrible situation.

16^th November 2021 – Eat for Each Other: the VakVarjú #CharityService fundraiser was a success

Eat for Each Other has come to an end at the VakVarjú restaurants. During more than two weeks of action, the VakVarjú restaurant family collected more than 265 000 HUF for the Hungarian Food Bank Association. Four VakVarjú restaurants took part in the programme, and when guests ordered dishes from the Varjú Chefs’ Eat for Each Other menu, VakVarjú donated 100 HUF to the programme.
The donation collected with your help was 265 000 HUF.

22^th April 2021 – Once again, our VakVarjú #CharityService flew its donation of 300.000,-HUF to the Suhanj! Foundation, so that disabled members of our community can experience the liberating joy of sport in their everyday lives. During the period of our programme, we set aside 100 HUF from every order placed on our website. It was a great experience to have the head of the foundation, Péter Gusztos, show us the first accessible, integrative gym in Hungary and the foundation’s empowering programmes. If you want to support their work, get to know them and their work!

4^th April 2021 – On Easter Sunday, the staff of the Intensive Care Unit at St. Imre Hospital were treated to a surprise visit from the VakVarjú #CharityService branches. Dr. Ádám Sági, head of the department, was presented with the Easter dishes of the Buda VakVarjú. It was wonderful to see how dedicated and – despite the difficult times – cheerful people were who are taking care of us. Hats off to the sacrificial work of the healthcare workers!

26^th March 2021 – We’re helping to make digital education less of a problem for one family. We donated laptops to make online learning easier for two children.

The donation raised with your help was 90 000 HUF.

31^th January 2021 – Our December fundraising supported the Age of Hope Foundation’s January donation of non-perishable food. We provided over 100 disadvantaged families in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County with a variety of food items to make the start of the year a little easier for them.

The donation collected with your help was 250 000 HUF.

26^th December 2020 – On Christmas Day, we cooked a delicious dinner for 150 homeless people at the centre of the Just One Social Support Centre in Izabella Street. The organization Just One is a day shelter and social institution where hope is kept in people and families living in homelessness and in need. It was wonderful to see homeless people and people living in extreme poverty embraced with immense love on this island of peace.

The donation collected with your help was 150 000 HUF.

3^th June 2020 – With your help, we donated four notebooks to the Children’s Transition Home in Pesterzsébet to facilitate digital education and to prevent children from having difficulties in their home learning period due to lack of equipment.

The donation raised with your help was 480 000 HUF

May – On the occasion of International Children’s Day, we hosted a large group of children and their companions from Újpalota for a festive lunch organised by the Baptist Relief Service. We had a great time, and we are very happy that they enjoyed their stay with us!

Donation collected with your help was 50 000 HUF

In May we received more charity packages!
17. May – 30 parcels of non-perishable food, sweets and detergents were prepared and distributed by the staff of the Centre to the needy. Thank you for helping us reach another goal.

The donation collected with your help was 150 000 HUF