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Bürger-Stiftung Stormarn

Bad Oldesloe, Germany

Community developmentChildren & YouthEducationMental healthTax-deductible donations
Grant-making foundationFounded 2007Regional reach1-10 staff400 volunteers
Profile last updated: March 31, 2026

About

Founded in 2007, Bürger-Stiftung Stormarn is a grant-making foundation based in Bad Oldesloe, Germany working on community development, children & youth, education +8 more.

The Bürger-Stiftung Stormarn is a community foundation based in Bad Oldesloe in the Kreis Stormarn district of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Founded in 2007, it works as an umbrella foundation (Dachstiftung) that hosts regional citizens' foundations, endowed funds and project groups. It runs its own projects in education, reading promotion, child and youth work, mental health, integration, senior support and environmental education, and it funds local initiatives such as food banks and social funds. Its work is carried out largely by volunteers, with an operational team and a board and supervisory council overseeing it. The foundation holds the quality seal for citizens' foundations from the Bundesverband Deutscher Stiftungen.

Location

Bad Oldesloe, Germany

Founded

2007

Organisation type

Grant-making foundation

Legal form

Stiftung

Legal name

Bürger-Stiftung Stormarn

Staff

1-10

VAT number

DE832135224

Focus areas

community foundationBürgerstiftungStormarnumbrella foundationvolunteering

Languages

DE

Causes & programmes

Causes

Community developmentChildren & YouthEducationMental healthPoverty & HungerElderly careRefugees & MigrationArts & CultureHeritageEnvironment & ClimateDisability

Works for

ChildrenYouthFamiliesElderly peoplePeople with disabilitiesPeople in povertyRefugees & MigrantsCommunities

How they work

Grant-makingCommunity programmesVolunteer programmesAwareness & educationDirect services

Programmes

Lesepaten Stormarn

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Education · Germany

Volunteer reading mentors who support children in learning to read in kindergartens and primary schools across Stormarn.

Verrückt? Na und!

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Mental health · Germany

School project providing information on depression to pupils in Stormarn.

Kinderstadt Stormarn

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Children & Youth · Germany

Role-play project for children aged 9 to 13 that teaches them to shape community life, held in changing locations in Kreis Stormarn since 2008.

Offene Eltern-Kind-Treffs

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Children & Youth · Germany

Open meeting groups for parents and young children in Reinbek and neighbouring communities.

Integrationspaten

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Refugees & Migration · Germany

Volunteers who support refugees with everyday tasks and participation in social life.

Lernpaten

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Education · Germany

Volunteers who help children in grades one to four with homework in small groups after school.

Funding & support

Volunteers

400

Funded by

Individual donationsCorporate partnerships

Ways to support

DonateVolunteerCorporate partnershipLegacy giving

Trust

Tax-deductible donationsGütesiegel für Bürgerstiftungen

Credentials & affiliations

Industry memberships

Bundesverband Deutscher Stiftungen

Partnerships

Sparkasse Holstein, Kroschke Kinderstiftung, Kreis Stormarn, Kreisverkehrswacht Stormarn, Arche Hamburg

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