Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
Sections
| Section: |
III - Non-governmental organisations |
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Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar |
Person with legal responsibility
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Carlton Deal
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| Position: |
Director |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Carlton Deal
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| Position: |
Director |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
15A Place Van Meyel
Brussels 1040
BELGIUM
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| Telephone number: |
(+32) 27343502 |
| Fax number: |
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| Other contact information: |
Email: info@servethecity.be, carlton@servethecity.be
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
Serve the City mobilizes volunteers to show kindness in practical ways. We partner with homeless shelters, refugee centers, orphanages, and other associations. We support volunteers to offer practical help and support to people often overlooked by society.
Serve the City began in Brussels in 2005, and is now active in more than 80 cities around the world. The number of cities is increasing on a weekly basis.
Our goal is to transform communities through bringing joy and hope into the lives of those who have none. One of our slogans is "Many people doing small things together make a big difference." We encourage volunteers that their seemingly small acts of kindness can make a big difference.
At Serve the City Brussels, our volunteering activity is based around six focus groups: Refugees and asylum seekers, Disabled people, Children in need, the Elderly, our Friends on the street, and Victims of abuse. Most of our projects fall into six categories: Practical, Social, Meals, Sports, Arts&Crafts, and Beauty. Our partners in other cities may choose other focus groups/project types depending on the needs in their areas. We run weekly and monthly projects. Weekly projects include serving soup to refugees at Gare du Nord train station and teaching and playing with homeless Roma refugees in a squat. Monthly projects include facials and manicures at a social restaurant and visiting Thai ladies in the red light district.
We organise Focus Days every month and Big Volunteer Days three times a year, normally on the third Saturday of the month. On these days we mobilise 60-100 volunteers for larger scale projects around the city.
We have a Serve the City Big Volunteer Week in July where projects run for a whole week serving all of our focus groups and culminating in a big community Street Party.
We also provide Team Building Service for companies, helping them to explore Corporate Social Responsibility.
We aim to promote serving as a way of engaging with our surroundings and societies. In other countries, branches of Serve the City have partnered with schools, universities, the police service and governments.
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The organisation's fields of interests are:
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Number of persons engaged in activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register
| Number of persons: |
12
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Complementary information:
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Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises
Activities
Main EU initiatives covered the year before by activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register:
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We engaged with the EU Year of the Volunteer by partnering with DG Comms for events: for exampe, speakers from the Commission came to promote volunteering at our Focus Days. We highlighted the European Year of Active Ageing at our Focus Day on the Elderly in January, which was attended by Prince Laurent and Princess Claire of Belgium.
We have also offered Team Building days to a number of EU agencies or departments including TEN-T-EA and DG HR. We have several other such events planned for the future.
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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
| Fields declared by the organisation: |
- Culture
- Development
- Education
- Employment and Social Affairs
- Sport
- Trans-European Networks
- Youth
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Structure
| Total number of members that are natural persons: |
12 |
| Number of member organisations: |
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| Member organisations (Number of members) : |
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| The organisation has members/is represented in the following country(countries): |
- BELGIUM
- ESTONIA
- FRANCE
- GERMANY
- GREECE
- HUNGARY
- IRELAND
- LUXEMBOURG
- NETHERLANDS
- PORTUGAL
- SPAIN
- BRAZIL
- CROATIA
- KENYA
- MALAWI
- NIGERIA
- SOUTH AFRICA
- TANZANIA, UNITED RE UBLIC OF
- UNITED STATES
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Complementary information:
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Networking
Information on (i) organisation's membership of any associations/federations/confederations or (ii) relationships to other bodies in formal or informal networks.
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Serve the City International
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Financial data
| Financial year: |
09/2012
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03/2013
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Total budget:
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60,000
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€
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of which public financing:
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20,000
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€
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- from European sources:
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- Procurement:
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10,000
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€
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- Grants:
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5,000
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€
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- from national sources:
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5,000
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€
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- from local/regional sources:
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€
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from other sources: |
40,000
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€
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- donations:
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40,000
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€
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- contributions from members:
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€
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Estimated costs to the organisation directly related to representing interests to EU institutions in that year:
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< 50000
€
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Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:
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