Stichting Actief

What Stichting Actief does

Stichting Actief is a Dutch non-profit foundation (Stichting) headquartered in Boxmeer, Netherlands, operating with 51-100 employees. Its public-facing description identifies three core activities: operating thrift stores, providing work-experience placements, and offering household goods collection services. The thrift-store retail arm sells donated second-hand goods to consumers, while the work-experience placements function as a labor reintegration vehicle — a common Dutch social enterprise model that combines commercial activity with subsidised programs for people with a distance to the labour market, typically funded or co-financed by municipalities and the UWV. The collection service provides inbound logistics for donated household goods, connecting donors to the retail pipeline.

No information is available in the supplied data on the company's underlying technology stack, proprietary systems, digital channels, certifications, management team, ownership structure, founding date, subsidiaries, partnerships, funding sources, or financials. The corporate website at actiefwerkprojecten.nl is reported as returning only a loading/verification page, preventing any independent verification of operational scale, store count, or program reach. Consequently, the company's precise business model mechanics — pricing of thrift goods, structure of placement contracts, geography of collection routes, and revenue split between retail, subsidies, and service fees — cannot be characterised beyond the high-level functional description above.

Name

Stichting Actief

Website

https://actiefwerkprojecten.nl

Company type

Private

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Stichting Actief is a Dutch non-profit foundation in Boxmeer that operates thrift stores, provides work-experience placements for labour reintegration, and offers household goods collection services to local residents and donors.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Social Enterprise Thrift Retail

NAICS

Used Merchandise Retailers (459510)

SIC

Retail-Miscellaneous Shopping Goods Stores (5940)

akta.pro primary industry

Reuse & Resale / Recommerce Operations (EUAIANAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Donation Pickup & Reuse Hauling (HSAKALAI), Donation, Resale & Disposal Coordination (HSAFAAAK)

Keywords

• Thrift store operations
• Work experience programs
• Household goods collection
• Secondhand retail
• Social employment

Headquarters

HQ city

Boxmeer

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain

Core offering

Stichting Actief runs thrift stores that sell secondhand household goods to consumers, offers work experience placement programs to support labor reintegration, and provides household goods collection services (likely accepting donated items from households). The foundation operates as a social enterprise combining retail, collection logistics, and employment services under one non-profit structure based in Boxmeer, Netherlands.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Thrift store retail

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Direct peers

• Het Goed: Largest Dutch thrift-store chain with an explicit social-employment mission; offers donation collection and operates dozens of stores. Directly comparable to Stichting Actief in business model, social-employment positioning, and circular-economy focus.
• Emmaus Nederland: Dutch federation of Emmaus communities running thrift stores alongside residential and work-integration programs for disadvantaged groups. Comparable as a non-profit combining recommerce with a social-employment mission.
• Leger des Heils ReShare: Salvation Army's Dutch thrift chain running collection services and secondhand retail stores, often combined with reintegration programs. Closely mirrors Stichting Actief's combination of collection, resale, and social-employment activities.
• Kringloopwinkel (regional operators): Federation of regional Dutch thrift stores that collect and resell secondhand household goods, frequently partnering with municipalities on social-employment placements. Highly comparable business model at the regional level.

Broad incumbents

• Vinted: Leading online C2C recommerce platform in the Netherlands competing for secondhand shoppers and, indirectly, for the donation/supply pool that feeds thrift stores like Stichting Actief.
• Marktplaats: Largest Dutch general-merchandise C2C marketplace and an established destination for secondhand goods. Broad incumbent competing for the same donor and shopper attention as brick-and-mortar thrift operators.

Regional players

• De Kringloop (Het Goed family of regional stores): Network of regional Dutch thrift stores typically operating within a single province. Comparable on operating model but with different geographic coverage than Stichting Actief's Boxmeer base.

Emerging players

• 2dehandsje / 2nd Chance vintage operators: Smaller Dutch vintage and secondhand clothing/furniture resellers that partially overlap with thrift-store assortment. Comparable on resale category and circular-economy positioning, though typically narrower in assortment and lacking the social-employment mission.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Stichtingactief
• Facebookfacebook.com/KringloopwinkelsStichtingActief
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/stichting-actief-boxmeer-cuijk

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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