The city of Bremen offers numerous opportunities for volunteering – whether with a club or a welfare organization, as a mentor, cultural companion, or guardian. If you would like to volunteer to help children, young people, and families in Bremen, you will find key contact points and relevant networks here.
Mediation & Networks
These networks and initiatives will help you to better orient yourself:
- Bremen Volunteer Agency:
The Volunteer Agency is Bremen's central point of contact for civic engagement. Its staff develops its own volunteer programs, advises volunteers, and provides training for organizations and associations. The volunteer exchange gives you an overview of countless opportunities to get involved in Bremen. You can get information and ask questions at the volunteer consultation service.
- Together in Bremen (GiB):
Besides the feeling of doing something good and meaningful, you'll gain many new experiences with GiB. You'll meet new people, both immigrants and those who have lived here for a long time. You can either view current offers and requests or post your own ad.
- Initiative for the Promotion of Civic Engagement (Federal Volunteer Service, FSJ, FÖJ, FKJ etc.)
As a non-profit, private association, the initiative provides independent information about the Federal Volunteer Service (BFD or Bufdi), the FSJ, the FÖJ and other voluntary services at home and abroad.
- Bremen Mentoring Network:
Engaged in mentoring projects – this guide to family mentoring, reading promotion, leisure mentoring, mentoring for refugees and the transition from school to work gives you an overview.
- Network Self-Help Bremen North Lower Saxony eV
To get involved for others or to do more for one's own needs in the area of self-help and to actively seek solutions is a need that has developed in many ways in recent years.
- Guardianship Authority / Voluntary Legal Guardianship:
Volunteering in the field of legal guardianship requires not only a high degree of personal commitment and social skills, but also knowledge of social and procedural law. If you are interested in taking on a voluntary legal guardianship role, you can find out more from guardianship associations and guardianship authorities.
- Stiftungshaus Bremen
The Stiftungshaus – Bremen's address for foundations, non-profit associations, and voluntary engagement, all about the common good.
Here you will find important information about civic engagement and volunteering:
- Volunteer Card:
The volunteer card, valid in Bremen and Lower Saxony, offers numerous discounts. Whether for sports, culture, or leisure, the card provides access to many benefits.
- Juleica:
With Juleica training, young people aged 16 and over (exceptions from age 15) can prepare themselves to, for example, organize their own projects, open spaces independently, lead groups, or accompany youth camps as team leaders. The youth leader card serves as proof of qualification.
- Insurance coverage for volunteers:
Information on liability and accident insurance for voluntary activities in associations, etc. The ÖVB provides information on extended insurance coverage for civic engagement under the central telephone number 0421 30 43 47 88.
Voluntary work with organizations and sponsoring agencies in Bremen
Most institutions, organizations, and welfare associations offer volunteers a wide range of opportunities for voluntary engagement in diverse fields. Leisure and sports clubs, as well as nature conservation associations, are also constantly seeking volunteers. Here is a list of some contact points available in Bremen – from A to Z:
- Autism Bremen
Here you can support autistic people and their families in leisure activities or use your know-how and professional experience as a job mentor to support people with autism spectrum disorders in the context of professional integration.
- AWO Bremen
The Volunteer Initiative brings together many exciting areas of activity and projects and is happy to provide advice on all aspects of volunteering and voluntary engagement.
- Church
(BEK) is grateful for its many volunteers. Around 9,000 volunteers dedicate their free time to shaping the congregations and institutions of the BEK.
- Caritas Bremen e.V.
There are over 300 volunteers at Caritas Bremen. There may be a suitable area of involvement for you, based on your interests and strengths.
- Diakonie Bremen:
There are many opportunities for you to get involved with Diakonie. By volunteering, you'll take on an enriching role where you can meet interesting people, try out new tasks, and expand your skills.
- The Bremen Service Centers:
There are a total of 17 service centers in the city of Bremen. These central contact points for senior citizens, people with disabilities and chronic illnesses, as well as volunteer-organized neighborhood support, have existed for more than 40 years.
- The German Red Cross (DRK) Bremen district association
has over 800 volunteers. These volunteers come from diverse backgrounds: ages, genders, skin colors, religions, and political beliefs.
- Fluchtraum Bremen eV:
Young refugees need dedicated guidance and support – volunteer as a mentor, guardian, in the advice café, as a guide, or in our projects. The association provides information and advice on opportunities to get involved with young refugees.
- The Peace Church in Bremen,
as a church community, provides service to people in our city and contributes to mutual neighborly support. You can get involved in the community in many ways for the benefit of people in the neighborhood.
- Together in Bremen
: Volunteering for newcomers to Bremen: Are you interested in volunteering but don't know how or where? The GiB team coordinates and connects you with volunteer opportunities throughout Bremen. This way, you can get to know everyday life, the culture, and the people.
- Johanniter Regional Association Bremen-Verden
If you are interested in volunteering with the Johanniter Accident Assistance for the common good or would simply like to find out about the individual opportunities for involvement, then get in touch with us.
- Borgfeld Children's and Youth Farm (Hans-Wendt-Foundation)
How about volunteering at the children's and youth farm in Borgfeld? We welcome anyone with practical skills and animal lovers who can help us, for example by collecting donations or providing feeding services on Sundays and public holidays.
- Löwenherz Children's Hospice Bremen:
The Löwenherz Bremen outpatient children's hospice support center accompanies families with terminally ill children in Bremen and the surrounding area. Volunteer children's hospice companions travel to the families' homes and support them there.
- Malteser Hilfsdienst eV (Malteser
The “hobby of helping” is not a one-way street: “Every smile you give, you get back twice,” as the saying goes. For over 900 years, the Malteser have been committed to helping the needy, the poor, and the sick.
- Martinsclub Bremen eV
This is the right place for you if you want to volunteer in your free time to help people with disabilities. Join other volunteers in promoting inclusion in Bremen.
- The Bremen North Lower Saxony Self-Help Network (Netzwerk Selbsthilfe Bremen Nordniedersachsen e.V.)
opens pathways into various fields of engagement. We also offer two areas in which you can get involved: "Engagement in Caregiving" and "Giving Time".
- SOS Children's Village Center:
For half a century, the SOS Children's Village Center has been committed to the needs, concerns, and rights of children. Every volunteer who supports the organization with their dedication and talents is a valuable asset that it cannot do without.
- Bremen State Statistical Office/Election Office:
No election can take place without the volunteer members of the polling station committees, i.e., the election workers. They organize the voting process on election day and are responsible for counting the votes after the polling stations close. The election workers are appointed before each election and receive a stipend for their service.
- Trauerland – Center for Bereaved Children and Young People e. V.
Volunteers are indispensable to our work. The opportunities to volunteer with us are as diverse as the people who volunteer: bereavement support in children's and youth groups, facilitating support groups for relatives, staffing information booths, and more. - Association for Inner Mission in Bremen:
Using your own skills and ideas to bring joy to other people and at the same time taking on responsibility in society – this can happen through voluntary engagement in the Association for Inner Mission.
- Wellcome offers
practical support for families after childbirth. This individualized family support program, originally founded in Hamburg, has been available in Bremen since January 2009. Volunteer helpers are active in almost all Bremen districts to support families.
- Refuge – Ecumenical Foreigners' Work Association
Support refugees in your neighborhood with your time, e.g. as a language guide or come to "chat" in one of the many language cafés.
Voluntary services
- Voluntary services Bremen
Information about existing voluntary service providers (organizations) in Bremen: The Voluntary Social Year / Federal Voluntary Service offers countless fields of activity, e.g. in daycare centers, elderly care facilities, facilities for people with disabilities and psychiatric facilities.
- IB Voluntary Services Bremen and Lower Saxony (North)
Voluntary Social Year (FSJ) and Federal Voluntary Service (BFD): The International Federation (IB) arranges interesting positions for your voluntary service in Bremen and the surrounding area.
- Initiative for the Promotion of Civic Engagement (Federal Volunteer Service, FSJ, FÖJ, FKJ etc.)
The non-profit, private-law association provides independent information about the Federal Volunteer Service (BFD or Bufdi), the FSJ, the FÖJ and other voluntary services at home and abroad.
- Social Peace Service Bremen eV
The sfd Bremen offers positions in the social sector (FSJ/BFD), cultural/political sector (FSJ Culture, FSJ Politics), climate and environmental protection (FÖJ) and in the European Voluntary Service (EFD/ESC).
- Bremen Children's Groups Association (Verbund Bremer Kindergruppen eV)
has been a provider of voluntary service (FWD) for more than 20 years and offers around 120 FWD positions in the daycare centers of parent associations in Bremen. These positions are offered both as part of the Voluntary Social Year (FSJ) for young people and as part of the Federal Volunteer Service (BFD) for people over 27 years of age.
- Viertelfreun.de
The Viertelfreunde see themselves as “friends” in the neighborhood, who give older people, who due to their age, illness, disability or other reasons have difficulty leaving their homes or have few social contacts, the opportunity to participate in social and community life again.
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