Regionaler Sozialdienst

What Regionaler Sozialdienst does

Regionaler Sozialdienst Konolfingen is a regional public social service jointly administered by 13 municipalities in the Konolfingen area of the Canton of Bern, Switzerland, with the Einwohnergemeinde Arni BE acting as the host/parent municipality. Its single regional office is located at Bernstrasse 1, Konolfingen, and the service is accessible to residents of Arni, Biglen, Bowil, Freimettigen, Grosshöchstetten, Häutligen, Landiswil, Mirchel, Niederhünigen, Oberhünigen, Oberthal, Walkringen, and Zäziwil. The organization employs 61 staff and is reachable at [email protected] and via phone numbers 031 790 45 35 / 031 790 45 30.

The service offering is non-digital and human-delivered: it provides professional social counseling and support to residents experiencing personal, financial, and family problems, delivered through walk-in consultations and scheduled appointments. There is no commercial technology product, no proprietary platform, no mobile app, and no AI or machine learning component; the technology stack is implicit in standard municipal office tooling (e-mail, telephone, web presence under the parent municipality's website arnibe.ch). No integrations, SDKs, or APIs are documented.

The business model is a publicly funded inter-municipal cooperation rather than a commercial enterprise: there is no disclosed pricing, no customer pricing tiers, no revenue figures, and no fundraising activity. The entity is classified as a government/state entity under Swiss jurisdiction (Canton of Bern), with parent ownership by Einwohnergemeinde Arni BE and joint governance by the 13 affiliated municipalities. Distribution is exclusively direct — through the single Konolfingen office — with referrals generated via municipal channels rather than marketing.

Name

Regionaler Sozialdienst

Legal name

Regionaler Sozialdienst Konolfingen

Website

https://arnibe.ch

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Regionaler Sozialdienst Konolfingen is a publicly funded regional social service jointly operated by 13 municipalities in the Konolfingen region of the Canton of Bern, Switzerland, providing in-person social counseling on personal, financial, and family issues to local residents through a single office in Konolfingen.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Social Services

NAICS

Other Individual and Family Services (62419), Individual and Family Services (6241)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPAIACAJ

Housing & Neighborhood Services (Local Housing Programs)

Business & Public Services/Public Sector & Government Administration/Local/Municipal Government Administration

Keywords

• Municipal social services
• Social counseling services
• Family support services
• Financial counseling
• Inter-municipal cooperation

Headquarters

HQ city

Konolfingen

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

The Regionaler Sozialdienst Konolfingen provides social counseling and support services to residents of 13 affiliated municipalities in the Konolfingen region of the Canton of Bern, Switzerland. The service advises and supports residents experiencing personal, financial, and family problems through walk-in consultations and scheduled appointments at its regional office in Konolfingen. It is a joint inter-municipal cooperation rather than a single-municipal service.

Product overview

The Regionaler Sozialdienst Konolfingen is a social services office that provides advice and support for personal, financial, and family problems. It serves as a cooperative social service shared among 13 municipalities in the Konolfingen region of the Canton of Bern. The service offers consultations on various social issues and is accessible through their office with specific opening hours.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Has API

No

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Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Municipality of ArnicoreOthersThe municipality of Arni is one of 13 municipalities affiliated with the Regionaler Sozialdienst Konolfingen. The social service is a regional inter-municipal cooperation providing social counseling and support to residents of all affiliated municipalities.
• Municipalities of Biglen, Bowil, Freimettigen, Grosshöchstetten, Häutligen, Landiswil, Mirchel, Niederhünigen, Oberhünigen, Oberthal, Walkringen, and ZäziwilcoreOthers12 additional municipalities joined with Arni to form the Regionaler Sozialdienst Konolfingen, providing shared social services across the region.

Recent moves2 records

Broad incumbents

• Caritas Schweiz: National Swiss humanitarian and social assistance organization. Overlaps in providing counseling and support for individuals/families facing social and financial hardship, though through a non-municipal non-profit structure rather than government administration.
• Schweizerisches Rotes Kreuz: Swiss Red Cross national association providing social support, family services, and humanitarian assistance. Operates nationally with overlapping individual/family support services, though structurally distinct from municipal government administration.

Regional players

• Pro Senectute Kanton Bern: Cantonal branch of Pro Senectute for the Canton of Bern, delivering social support and information services to older adults in the same canton. Compares as a cantonal-level social services provider focused on elderly clients in the same region.

Direct peers

• Sozialdienst Köniz: Large agglomeration municipality adjacent to Bern that runs its own social services office. Comparable structure and mandate within the same regional context of the Canton of Bern.
• Sozialamt Winterthur: Municipal social services authority serving the city of Winterthur. Comparable public-sector social-service mandate covering personal, financial, and family counseling for Swiss municipal residents.
• Soziale Dienste Stadt Luzern: Municipal social services office for the city of Lucerne, providing social counseling, financial support, and family services to city residents under a comparable Swiss municipal-government service-delivery model.
• Soziale Dienste Zürich: Social services department of the city of Zurich, the largest municipal social services operation in Switzerland. Operates under the same municipal-government case-management and personal/financial counseling mandate, at much larger scale.
• Sozialdienst Stadt Bern: Cantonal capital municipal social service office serving the city of Bern. Direct comparative peer: same canton (Bern), same public-sector administrative model, same mandate of personal/financial/family social counseling and case management for residents.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/regionaler-sozialdienst

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Investors

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