The Bank’s sponsorship and charity activities were aimed at supporting culture, life-saving and health care. The Bank has supported almost 2,000 undertakings. In 2005, the Bank continued the long-term program “PKO Bank Polski Kulturze Narodowej” (PKO BP for National Culture), under which the Bank acted as the patron of:
- renovation of a replica of Michelangelo’s fresco “The Last Judgment” and the ceremony of making this works available to the public, which was held at the National Museum in Cracow,
- ceremonial concert “V Wielki Recital” (Fifth Great Recital) held to commemorate the 85th anniversary of foundation of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań,
- exhibition of manuscripts accompanying the Ninth Easter Ludwig van Beethoven Festival
- anniversary concerts of Wanda Warska and Hanna Banaszak.
The Bank continued to cooperate with the National Philharmonic, National Library and the National Museum in Warsaw (exhibition of sculptures by W. Hasior). The Bank was the general sponsor of:
- another edition of the Polish Radio Music Festival, which commemorated the 80th anniversary of the Polish Radio,
- the Andrzej Drawicz Prize,
- the “Rawa Blues” Festival at Rawa Mazowiecka,
- the 48th International Festival of Contemporary Music “Warszawska Jesień” (Warsaw Autumn).