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The Jockey Club Age-friendly City Partnership Scheme was launched in 2018 under the Jockey Club Age-friendly City Project, initiated and funded by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust to encourage different community sectors to adopt age-friendly practices. Attracting the participation of almost 300 companies and organisations, the third Jockey Club Age-friendly City Partnership Scheme Award Presentation Ceremony was held on 11 May 2023 to recognise outstanding age-friendly practices. Mr Chris Sun, HKSAR Government Secretary for Labour and Welfare officiated at the ceremony.

At the ceremony, Mr Chris Sun said that tripartite collaboration among the Government, the business sector and the community is the key to cope with the ageing population in Hong Kong. The Jockey Club Age-friendly City Partnership Scheme encourages different community stakeholders to develop an age-friendly culture and build an age-friendly environment in the community, providing useful resources and information to elderly people and the soon-to-be-olds so that they can achieve active ageing in the community. It also enhances the public awareness over the importance of an age-friendly city.

Six special awards were presented in the ceremony, including the Age-friendly Employer Award, Age-friendly Facilities Award, Age-friendly Business Innovation Award, Age-friendly Collaborator Award, Our City’s Story Award, and My Favourite City Partnership Scheme Award, to companies and organisations that performed outstandingly in promoting age-friendly culture. Among those participating in the Scheme this year, more than two-thirds were first-time joiners, indicating that increasingly more companies and organisations from different sectors are keen to promote age-friendly measures. The awardees list can be found on the Scheme website: jccitypartnership.hk/2022-awardees.

Representatives from the award-winning companies and organisations were also invited to share their best practices and practical experiences in sharing sessions themed “Co-create an inclusive world for the elderly” and "Age-friendly measures tap new business opportunities and compete for talents", to help the audience understand the importance and benefits of implementing age-friendly measures.

The Club’s support for this project, like all of its charity donations, is made possible by its unique integrated business model through which racing and wagering generate tax and charity support for the community.