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Join us and volunteer
1.
Fill in avolunteer profile
The volunteer profile asks you to answer a series of questions that will give us a good idea of your aspirations for a future volunteer job. You will receive a confirmation by email.
2.
You will receiveassociation matches
Within about a week, we will send you an email with the associations that match your profile. We are happy to help if you need further support to reach out to an association.
3.
14-daysfollow-up
After 14 days, we’ll send you a follow-up questionnaire asking you if you’ve found a volunteer job and if you need any further support to find the right volunteer job for you.
4.
4-monthfollow-up
The same process will be repeated after 4 months. We will send you a follow-up questionnaire with questions about your experience of finding a volunteer job.
Check out these local volunteer opportunities
Sydhavnstippen Naturpleje is a group of local volunteers who enjoy working outdoors on the conservation of the large open area Sydhavnstippen.
Volunteer role: Removing invasive species, scything the grass, raking, cutting back and trimming hawthorn, maintaining natural areas by removing litter and keeping the paths accessible for the visitors.
Time commitment: Flexible. The nature care group meets at least once a week, usually on Sundays from 10 am. to 1 pm. , but it is also possible to participate on other days after agreement.
Contact: sydhavnstippen@gmail.com
Link: https://www.sydhavnstippen-naturpleje.com/
The Forests of the World Denmark.
Volunteer role: events, campaign work, fundraising.
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Contact: rekrut@verdensskove.org
Link: Denmark – Forests of the World
Omstilling NU is a network organization and platform for collaboration, knowledge sharing and project development, which aims to create a sustainable transformation of our society.
Volunteer role: project work (either support their projects or develop your own)
Time commitment:
Contact: info@omstilling.nu
Nordic Ocean Watch Denmark strives to protect the ocean through volunteer efforts, awareness-raising, and concrete actions along the coasts. Their goal is to build a community around ocean protection and contribute to a cleaner and healthier marine environment in the Nordic region.
Volunteer role: Support communication and create SoMe content, Assist with data collection and outreach related to our marine environment projects, Support organizational work with logistics, partnerships, and coordination, Help plan and run cleanup events and workshops, Participate in beach cleanups and help register collected waste.
Time commitment: minimum 1 year engagement, approx. 2-4 hours a week (with flexibility)
Contact: info@nordicoceanwatch.dk
Link: www.nordicoceanwatch.dk
The Climate Group is a community for everyone interested in climate justice, sustainability, and politics. It is part of ActionAid Denmark (Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke), a movement fighting for a more just and sustainable world.
Volunteer role: participate in working groups and research topics such as European climate policy, including “loss and damages” and how the Global North can economically compensate the Global South for climate change-related destruction of infrastructure, etc. The group also plans an annual climate festival.
Time commitment: once per week
Contact: frivillig@ms.dk
Link: https://www.ms.dk/en/home
Re:wair works on the green transformation of clothing consumption.
Volunteer role: events, project management, social media and clothes upcycling and redesign.
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Contact: https://www.rewair.org/volunteer
Repair Café Vesterbro is all about sustainability and community. They fix broken items, reduce waste, and share practical skills. You can join as a repairer (no experience needed — we’ll teach you!), help with practical tasks like gardening or cooking, or take part in planning, coordination, board work, and fundraising. We’re especially looking for people with initiative and good coordination skills to help keep things running smoothly.
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Time commitment: Flexible
Contact: stig@repaircafedanmark.dk
At Food distribution – Røde Kors Hovedstaden you can contribute to fight against food waste. In the distribution events, you greet the participants with a smile, check them on the list and hand out a basket of surplus goods from stores. Before that, the goods must be sorted, divided evenly and packed in baskets.
Volunteer role:As a cafe volunteer, you must be open to chatting with the participants, be there to listen and ensure a good atmosphere in the café. As a driver volunteer, you help to pick up the goods that are in the Food Distribution.
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Contact: Food distribution – Røde Kors Hovedstaden (rodekors.dk)
Wefood is a store under Folkekirkens Nødhjælp, which fights food waste by selling surplus food and other products and gives the profits to people in need. You can be either a volunteer driver or a volunteer in the shop.
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Contact: https://www.noedhjaelp.dk/wefood/frivillig-i-wefood?sdid=10496
Copenhagen Food Association is looking for volunteers for the shared warehouse at the Hotel & Restaurant School in Valby. The volunteers buy vegetables from growers in Zealand, organize them in the shared warehouse at the Hotel & Restaurant School in Valby, drive them out to the departments in Copenhagen, run the local shops and work with the administrative and cross-functional tasks that come with to run a shopping association.
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Contact: https://kbhff.dk/english
2nd PAW is a non-profit organisation running a second hand shop selling products for dogs. It’s 100% powered by volunteers and all profits are donated to animal welfare organizations.
Volunteer role: tasks related with
Time commitment: you need to volunteer for at least 6 months and take a minimum of 2 shifts/month. The shifts are in shop opening hours (Thursday and Friday 13-18 and Saturday and Sunday 11-15).
Contact: kontakt@2ndpaw.dk
Care Center for homeless discharged after hospitalization, Red Cross Copenhagen
The care center is a temporary residence for homeless adults who have been discharged after hospitalization. The center also accommodates homeless people who have been subjected to an accident or incurred a serious physical illness. As a volunteer, you help patients as they recover. The support is in the form of both care, conversation and treatment. As a volunteer at the care center, you must have a desire to help people with different backgrounds, be tolerant and have a positive mindset.
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Contact: Eirsgaard care center – Røde Kors Hovedstaden (rodekors.dk)
Settlementet på Vesterbro is a socio-economic association which helps socially vulnerable people through different activities and initiatives. As a volunteer you can join their shops or one of their cafés. Read more at their website (in danish) https://settlementet.dk/
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Contact: frivillig@settlementet.dk
Kirkens Korshær at Istedgade 100 is a resting spot for those in need. A kind of living room and home for homeless and others who would like some home comfort.
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Contact: Volunteer | Kirkens Korshær (kirkenskorshaer.dk)
GRACE CPH is a morning café for homeless and socially vulnerable people in Copenhagen, where free food, coffee/tea, clothing, basic guidance, sleeping spaces, and social interaction are offered.
Volunteer role: practical tasks such as serving food, coffee, and tea, preparing food, cleaning up, washing dishes, hanging up clothes, and similar duties. There is also the opportunity to chat and spend time with guests, for example by playing a game or doing something creative.
Time commitment: There are no expectations or requirements regarding time commitment.
The shifts are usually from 7:45 AM to 12:00 PM.
Contact: https://www.blaakors.dk/vores-arbejde/vaeresteder/grace-i-koebenhavn
Exist is an organisation that wants to stop human trafficking. They are looking for volunteers to handle practical tasks in the café, to do outreach work on Istedgade and to support women in sex work with care.
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Contact: https://exist-ngo.org/en/vaer-med/
Danish Refugee Council: A danish international organisation that helps refugees all over the world.
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Contact: https://frivillig.drc.ngo/aktiviteter/oversigt-over-aktiviteter/.
Kompasset: a place where you can help homeless migrants. One of the main tasks is social and legal counselling, but you can also help out with practical work.
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Contact: Volunteer | Kirkens Korshær (kirkenskorshaer.dk)
Lige Adgang is a career mentor program for people with a refugee or migrant background. As a career mentor, you have the opportunity to support individuals in overcoming barriers and finding their footing in the Danish labor market.
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Caritas Legal Aid is looking for volunteers with a special interest in immigration law. The counselling is open to anyone with a need for immigration law counselling – and who does not have the resources to seek counselling.
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Time commitment: did@caritas.dk
Contact: https://caritas.dk/bliv-frivillig-i-caritas/
Sammen på Tværs is bringing the gap between elderly and integration. Elderlearn is matching elderly citizens with foreigners who want to learn danish. This helps to create well-being, joy and content for the elderly and improve the integration opportunities for the foreigner.
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Time commitment: Contact: info@sammenpaatvaers.dk
Vores asylbørn (our asylum children) is an association that aims to ensure the well-being and development of asylum children in the short and long term while they are in Denmark. They are a team of very international volunteers and they also welcome English speaking volunteers.
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Contact: Become a volunteer – Vores Asylbørn (voresasylboern.dk)
LivaShelter is looking for committed volunteers who want to join a well-functioning activity club for children on Thursdays from 6-7 pm.
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oding Pirates: is an association that provides leisure activities for children and young people where they can develop their technological adventurousness and creativity. They are currently looking for volunteers to be part of starting an international department.
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Contact: anga@codingpirates.dk
REDI School of Digital Integration is a non-profit tech school offering free IT-courses on several levels to women with migrant and refugee backgrounds. There you can teach JavaScript, Data Analytics, UX or UI to women with refugee and immigrant backgrounds to support them in creating new opportunities for themselves in Denmark.
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Contact: https://www.redi-school.org/volunteer-in-copenhagen
Game’s Playmakers are young volunteers who are making a difference for children and young people in underserved neighborhoods or in GAME’s indoor facilities. They do this by arranging weekly practices in street basketball, street football, street dance, and parkour for local children and youth.
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Contact: Become a Volunteer – GAME Denmark
SheZone is a social sports community that works to get more girls and women into a physically active association community.
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Contact: Bliv frivillig – SheZone
The Green Girl Scouts in Emdrup is looking for a volunteer to coordinate cool outdoor activities for girls aged 10-13. The programme usually involves outdoor activities with a specific purpose, such as teaching the girls about how to light and tend a fire, social responsibility, how to be a good friend or how to take care of nature.
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Contact: https://pigespejder.dk/english/become-a-volunteer/
Specialsport: is an NGO who helps people with special needs to become part of local associations in e.g. sports clubs etc.
Volunteer role: activity companion (help people with special needs or disabilities get safely from home or school to their leisure activity), team supporter (assist at a special sports team), coach/assistant Coach (planning, structuring, and leading training sessions), help with administration and IT, communication and social media, photography and video.
Time commitment: Once per week (administrative and communication volunteer roles are however flexible).
Contact: hej@specialsport.dk
Link: https://specialsport.dk/en/volunteer/
Astas Venner is looking for bicycle pilots for cycling activities for adults with a physical or mental disability which excludes them from the cycling community of Copenhagen. Whether you want to come by once a month or several times a week is entirely up to you and your schedule, and a good bike ride can be short or long.
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Contact: You can call Camilla on 25543435 and ask for more information.
Red Cross Copenhagen offers bicycle training for adults with a non-Danish background. Here the participants learn to ride a bicycle in a safe and closed environment before they enter the traffic. You do not need any specific professional background, but it is an advantage if you are pedagogically minded.
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Contact: danielsimonsen@godmail.dk
Bicycle training – Røde Kors Hovedstaden (rodekors.dk)
LivaShelter
is looking for committed volunteers to establish a weekly training evening at a crisis center so that the residents can have a free space in a difficult everyday life. The residents at LivaShelter demand physical activity and expression, so they organise a weekly training evening with changing forms of training in relation to the wishes and abilities of the volunteers.
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Contact: https://livapeople.dk/bliv-frivillig/
GreenKayak is an environmental NGO that engages volunteers in the fight against environmental pollution while kayaking.
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Time commitment: It is very flexible and you can volunteer whenever you want.
Contact: https://www.greenkayak.org/about-us/
SceneKunst Vesterbro has two different venues in Copenhagen that consist of: Råhuset and Basement. As a volunteer you can help in the bar, welcome guests, take pictures or provide lightning at arrangements.
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Contact: Contact coordinator Nicklas: tk2f@kk.dk
At Huset-KBH they have several cultural events every year, and there are a lot of great ways you can contribute to their welcoming volunteering team. Their team consists of more than 100 danish and international volunteers. Your tasks can be around facilitating events, helping the audience and much more.
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Contact: https://huset.kk.dk/en/volunteering?language=en
CPH:DOX (2026) and Buster (september 2025): two film festivals that are looking for volunteers. Depending on your wishes and experience, you can take on various types of tasks before, during, and after the festival.
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Contact: https://cphdox.dk/volunteers/
TechBBQ is the biggest tech and startup summit in the Nordics, and we need your help to make it all happen. As a volunteer, you’ll assist with guest check-in, wardrobe, VIP areas, stages, canteen and more. No special skills required – just a positive attitude and team spirit!
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Time commitment: Volunteering takes place once a year, around September 11–14, and includes 2 shifts of 5–6 hours, including lunch. You can choose your preferred days among 4 available options.
Contact: https://cphdox.dk/volunteers/
Nordic Ocean Watch Denmark strives to protect the ocean through volunteer efforts, awareness-raising, and concrete actions along the coasts. Their goal is to build a community around ocean protection and contribute to a cleaner and healthier marine environment in the Nordic region.
Volunteer role: Help at the beach cleanups and events
Time commitment: No commitment, volunteers decide how often they want to participate in the events.
Contact: info@nordicoceanwatch.dk
Link: www.nordicoceanwatch.dk
Café Mellemrummet is a volunteer driven non-profit café and bar which is part of ActionAid Denmark (Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke), a movement fighting for a more just and sustainable world.
Volunteer role: stand behind the bar and serve drinks; plan events with political, social, and/or charitable aims.
Time commitment: once per month
Contact: frivillig@ms.dk
Link: https://www.ms.dk/en/home
Café Sweet Surrender is a children friendly, non-profit café that wants to give all its visitors a break from the turmoil of everyday life by serving high-standard coffee and tea, affordable and proper meal and a warm smile. They are also a group of warm hearted volunteers from all parts of the world, that work together to make the café the biggest hit possible, because every profit made is sent directly to a worthy cause. You can volunteer in the bar or in the kitchen.
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Contact: https://sweetsurrender.dk/en/about-us/ or send an email to volunteer@sweetsurrender.dk to hear more about the volunteer opportunities.
Finjan Kulturcafe and Syrian Doc Days work at the intersection of culture, community, and social understanding. Through film festivals, debates, conversation salons, and community dinners, they create spaces for reflection and dialogue across backgrounds and perspectives.
Volunteer role: Supporting events, film screenings, talks, and the film festival, setup and cleanup for community dinners and gatherings, social media and communications, program development and research
Time commitment: once per week
Contact: kontakt@finjan.dk
Café Umbrella is a place for people in vulnerable life situations. They are looking for volunteers to help with different creative activities.
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Contact: umbrella@kfumsoc.dk
One Bowl At One Bowl, we run a community café and shelter for homeless and socially vulnerable individuals. As a volunteer, you can contribute with your skills in IT, communication, economy, administration, project management or fundraising. We also welcome hands-on help in the kitchen or café, or with small practical tasks like handyman work.
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Caritas Denmark is looking for volunteers that want to be hosts in their Migrant House. As a volunteer you make sure to invite the people in, tell a little about the Migrant House in general, you make sure that there is coffee and tea and to ensure that the citizen is well before and after their interview with the lawyers. So you are the one that creates a safe and pleasant space for the citizens who visit them.
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Contact: migranthouse@caritas.dk
The Global Queer Volunteer Team works on initiatives to support Global LGBTIQ+ rights. They work on building three different types of initiatives: 1) Events during key dates in Copenhagen, for example Prides, activist weeks, webinars, workshops, social times, protest groups, etc. 2) Joint initiatives with LGBTIQ+ organisations in the Global South, such as joint events or collective campaigns, 3) Advocacy and research about global LGBTIQ+ rights.
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Contact: LGBT+ DanmarkBliv frivillig – LGBT+ Danmark
LGBT Asylum is currently looking for new volunteers for their different programmes in Copenhagen to become Contact persons, Community organisers and Mentors.
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