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Contact information

Frederiksgade 78b, 1

8000 Aarhus C
Denmark

Tel: +45 98 12 24 24
Email: frise[at]frise.dk
Website: www.frise.dk

 

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General information

FriSe is a nationwide NGO that works to ensure that everyone has access to a community. A condition for us humans to thrive is that we need positive social relations and are something for someone. That is why communities are central to everything we do.

 

FriSe has 81 members, including 71 volunteer centers that have over 6.000 local association as members and represent the local associations, all of which are fighting to get more people to get involved in a local community — whether it is for a cause, a difficult conversation or simply for the sake of the community. At the same time, we collaborate with associations, municipalities or other sectors of society to be able to build bridges into the communities for the people who need special support, based on the bridge-building model that the National Board of Health and Welfare and FriSe have developed together.  

 

We are present and work locally in more than 65 municipalities. This means that we are in a unique position to be able to navigate in the rich, diverse association landscape that stretches far and wide around the Danish local communities. On this basis, we also work to create a professional framework for civil society. For example, we create quality standards for volunteer centres and self-help organisations, courses and networks, cross-sectoral collaborations and, not least, we build civil society's infrastructure with the bridge-building platform Socialkompas and the recruitment platform Frivilligjob.dk.

 

FriSe is a Danish organisation and is independent of public, party political and religious interests.

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Activities:​

- Lobbying the government on various issues including financing of operational costs and creation of new volunteer centres
- Involving FriSe and its members in government projects where relevant
- Acting as a consultant for members on various issues such as professional organisation development and playing an advisory role for the centres’ board of trustees
- Managing www.frivilligjob.dk, the official database for volunteering opportunities in Denmark.

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Membership:

FriSe has currently over 80 local volunteer centres and self-help organisations as members.​

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