Get involved – you make a difference
Doing meaningful work, meeting people, putting your strengths to good use and making your city a better place to live: there are many reasons to get involved.
It doesn’t matter how much time, ideas or experience you have to offer. Stuttgart offers you plenty of opportunities that can fit into your everyday life. Take the first step!
Finding ways to get involved: advice and matchmaking services
Would you like to get involved, but aren’t quite sure where or how? Volunteer agencies and centres build bridges between people who want to get involved and organisations looking for support.
They offer advice, provide information on opportunities and put you in touch with relevant organisations. You can seek advice in person or search online for suitable opportunities.
The Volunteer Agency and Volunteer Platform
The Volunteer Agency will match you with a volunteering role that suits your expectations. The advisers will listen to you, offer suggestions and present you with specific opportunities.
You can also find out more online and get in touch directly with a suitable opportunity via the Volunteer Platform.
Caleidoskop Volunteer Centre and Volunteer Opportunities Platform
At the Caleidoskop Volunteer Centre, you’ll find support in finding a volunteering role that suits you. The team offers personalised advice, matches you with the right opportunities and organises volunteering where it’s needed – partly through its own projects, working closely with local people and neighbourhoods.
Aktion Mensch’s Volunteering Platform
Are you looking for ways to get involved in community work? Then you’ve come to the right place. On Aktion Mensch’s nationwide volunteering platform, you’ll find a wide range of projects, initiatives and opportunities where your commitment to the common good is needed.
Find a way to get involved
Want to get involved?
We need you here:
Learning Lounge
Organisation:
Freiwilligenzentrum Caleidoskop
Project: Learning Lounge
Role:
You’ll bring the learning space to life and help children and young people with their studies.
Location:
Zuffenhausen
It’s lovely here! Isn’t it?
Organised by:
‘It’s lovely here, isn’t it?’ – Initiative for a clean and tidy Stuttgart
Task:
On ‘Clean-up Fridays’, you’ll work as a group to spot and collect rubbish, making the neighbourhood a nicer place.
Location:
Weilimdorf, West
Neighbourhood Bridge
Organisation:
Department for Social Affairs and Inclusion
Role:
You’ll help older people with DIY tasks, transporting items or moving house.
Location:
in numerous neighbourhoods
Strong Together in Stuttgart
Mentoring is a special form of community involvement. Mentors guide others over a specific period of time, sharing their experiences and offering support with personal, educational or career-related issues.
The WelcoMEntor project run by the Stuttgart Community Foundation brings together various mentoring programmes in Stuttgart. If you’d like to champion a diverse and open society, mentoring could be a great place to start.
WelcoMEntor
WelcoMEntor is an umbrella organisation for various mentoring programmes in Stuttgart.
Become a mentor
You share your skills, are open to others, and your commitment helps to build a sense of community.
What does ‘tandem’ mean?
The mentor and mentee form a permanent team for a set period and work together regularly and in confidence.
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