Sport and culture benefit
aka Virike is paid by your employer – you choose how to use it
Sport and culture benefit
aka Virike is paid by your employer – you choose how to use it
What is recreational benefit (Virike)?
By offering a sport and cultural (recreational) benefit your employer wants to encourage you to exercise and enjoy culture in your free time. Sport benefit is the most popular personnel benefit in Finland and no wonder: by exercising frequently you have more energy in everyday life and your readiness to handle stress increases.
You don’t have to be a sport enthusiast to enjoy recreational benefit, we’ll help you to find the joy of exercising and relax in culture events. What’s more, recreational benefit is offered by your employer and you don’t pay any taxes, it’s like a salary increase.
Where can I use it?
Get started by activating your card in MyEdenred. Edenred’s sport and culture network consists nearly 8 000 places around Finland. You can pay for example golf, bowling, a shooting club, downhill skiing and equipment rental, carting, and buy event tickets for a concert, opera, or a museum card, to name a few. How do you recover during your leisure?
How to pay with recreational benefit
In addition to recreational vouchers you can pay three different ways:
- Edenred card is like a credit card, but you don’t need PIN code
- Pay with MyEdenred application: search a place from a map or by it’s name
- Pay with your phone’s NFC by adding your card to Apple Pay or Google Pay
Kindly note, that no change is given back from recreational vouchers.
errorIf your card gets lost, you can block it in MyEdenred and your balance will remain intact.
Please contact the person responsible from employee benefits in your company, who will order a new card for you.
Alternatively you can reach our customer service from Mon-Fri 9 am until 4pm, phone 09-7594 2848 (Inf/nfc) in order to block your card.
Find sport and cultural places
Our cards, vouchers and mobile payments are accepted nearly 8000 recreational places in Finland.
Buy tickets to your favourite gigs with recreational benefit
Read the instructions, how to reserve and buy tickets.
Sport and culture benefit can not be used to pay for massage. According to Tax Authority’s policy regarding voluntary sport activity, the benefit is meant for supporting the employees’ own sport activities. Massage, physiotherapy, meditation exercises or mindfulness are not counted as sport activities, so they are not covered. However, our network has some physiotherapy and massage places, because they have other services – for example Personal Training – which can be bought with recreational benefit.
Your employer decides, on which day the balance will be loaded to your MyEdenred account. For more information, please contact the person in your company responsible for employee benefits.
Your recreational balance is valid for two yearsfrom the point of top-up even if your card is renewed in between, unless otherwise agreed. You can see the balance expiring within next 30 days from MyEdenred, by choosing from the front page “Payment details” > “Expiries”.