Baltic Hub has donated rescue equipment, recreational and sports facilities, and specialist wheelchairs for people with disabilities to the Gdańsk Sports Centre; these will be used on Stogi Beach. The value of the donation is nearly 700,000 zlotys. The handover took place on 17 June during a press conference on Brzeźno beach, attended by the Mayor of Gdańsk, Aleksandra Dulkiewicz, representatives of the Gdańsk Sports Centre, Baltic Hub and other business partners.

This season, lifeguards at Stogi will have new support at their disposal, whilst beachgoers and people with disabilities will benefit from additional facilities to make it easier for them to enjoy the beach. As part of its collaboration with the Gdańsk Sports Centre, Baltic Hub has funded the purchase of lifesaving equipment, facilities to support people with disabilities, and sports and leisure infrastructure, thanks to which Stogi Beach will be even better equipped to meet the diverse needs of beachgoers.

– A particular strength of Gdańsk’s bathing areas is their high level of safety. Since the establishment of lifeguard-patrolled bathing areas in 1989, there has not been a single drowning incident along the secured shoreline. We want to maintain this standard this season as well – emphasised Gdańsk’s Mayor Aleksandra Dulkiewicz.

A new quality of leisure for everyone

As part of the ‘Improving the safety and attractiveness of Stogi Beach’ project, the terminal has provided, amongst other things, three lifeguard towers, a jet ski with a platform, a quad bike with a trailer, a DSB motorboat, three BL rowing boats, four sea rescue kayaks and four rescue wetsuits. Beachgoers will also be able to use four new changing rooms and beach courts for volleyball, handball and football.

– Stogi Beach is an important place for the residents of Gdańsk, the local community and everyone holidaying by the sea. As Baltic Hub, we want to support initiatives that address the real needs of the area surrounding the terminal – safety, accessibility and the quality of shared spaces. “The equipment donated provides tangible support for lifeguards, but is also an investment in the comfort and active leisure of residents and tourists – safety, accessibility and the quality of shared spaces ,” says Jan Pollak, Finance Director and Member of the Management Board at Baltic Hub.

Baltic Hub, together with other GOS business partners – the Energa Foundation, the Ewesa Foundation, Pan Dragon and Nestlé Polska – also supported the ‘Stogi Beach Accessible to All’ project by donating equipment to make it easier for people with disabilities to use the beach. The equipment donated by Baltic Hub included two electric wheelchairs, two conventional wheelchairs, two wheelchairs for children with disabilities and four walkers designed for moving across sand.

– The aim of the initiative is not only to ensure physical access to the sea by providing specialist Wheeleez beach wheelchairs. Thanks to innovative balloon-tyre technology, the Sandcruiser and Sandpiper wheelchairs do not sink into loose sand but move across it with great ease, enabling users to reach the shoreline safely. For many people, this will be their first opportunity to enjoy such unhindered access to the sea, free from architectural and logistical barriers – explains Kamil Koniuszewski, director of the Gdańsk Sports Centre.

This is an important addition to the infrastructure improving accessibility at Gdańsk’s bathing areas. Until now, people with disabilities have been able to use among other things wide walkways enabling movement across the sand, adapted changing rooms, benches, information boards, Braille signage and amphibious wheelchairs allowing safe access to the water, available at the Stogi, Brzeźno Molo, Jelitkowo Piastowska and Jelitkowo Jantarowo beaches in Gdańsk.

Long-term commitment

Today’s event is yet another example of Baltic Hub’s collaboration with the Gdańsk Sports Centre in support of Stogi Beach. Back in 2025, the terminal supported the Gdańsk Sports Centre by funding the purchase of the innovative BeBot robot, which cleans the sand of small, hard-to-collect litter such as cigarette ends, bottle caps and plastic fragments. As a result, Stogi became the first beach in Poland to utilise this modern solution.

This commitment to the development of Stogi Beach forms part of Baltic Hub’s broader corporate social responsibility strategy. The terminal consistently implements initiatives that support the local community, the environment, health and safety. In 2025, it organised, amongst other things, the fourth edition of the ‘Busole’ grant programme, allocating 250,000 zł to support local projects, and launched the employee volunteering programme ‘ZawijaMY z pomocą’. Baltic Hub is also involved in regular social and educational activities, such as Moving for Charity, Safety Fest, the Relay of Hope and the Summer Cinema on the Beach.

photos: Press Office of Gdańsk City Council