Just a Change
Just a Change is a Portuguese non-profit that renovates homes for people living in housing poverty, relying entirely on volunteer labour. Si…
Volunteering & Social Impact
Where showing up makes the difference: REFOOD's meal-rescue shifts, Fruta Feia's food co-op, beach clean-ups with Brigada do Mar, and wildlife care at RIAS. Volunteers keep the work moving, and new hands are welcome.
Projects in this focus
Youth Coop
Youth Coop is a non-profit cooperative of youth work professionals based in Agualva-Cacém, Sintra, running local and European projects on ci…
GRACE – Empresas Responsáveis
GRACE – Empresas Responsáveis is a public-benefit, non-profit business association founded in 2000 that promotes corporate social responsibi…
Azeitão Eco-consciente
Azeitão Eco-consciente is a community movement in Azeitão, Portugal, that promotes sustainable, active and connected living through events s…
ImpacTrip
ImpacTrip is a purposeful travel agency that offers meaningful social and environmental volunteering programs across Europe.
ZERO – Associação Sistema Terrestre Sustentável
ZERO is a Portuguese environmental NGO, founded in 2015, that advocates for sustainability on energy, pollution, waste, biodiversity and soc…
Planetiers
Planetiers is a global ecosystem and active community based in Lisbon, Portugal, connecting sustainable solutions with organizations and ter…
Servivo
SerVivo is a co-living community and event venue in the Natural Park of Arrábida, near Palmela, given over to human development through danc…
Volunteering in Portugal
Conservation associations, farms, food co-ops and wildlife centres often depend on unpaid hours and take volunteers, and for several of them it is not a nice extra but the reason the work happens at all.
The commitment varies more than the subject does. RIAS needs regular shifts at its wildlife centre in Olhão. Quercus, MONTIS and VERDE run field days you can join once. Keela Permaculture Farm and Quinta do Vale da Páscoa host longer stays in exchange for work, and Brigada do Mar cleans coastline in short intensive campaigns.
Ask what is actually needed before offering; the honest answer is often less romantic and more useful than expected. Related focuses: community resilience and habitat restoration; dated volunteer days are on our events calendar.