VIP! De Fryske Marren

What VIP! De Fryske Marren does

VIP! De Fryske Marren (Vrijwilligers Informatie Punt De Fryske Marren) is a non-profit volunteer information point and matching platform serving the municipality of De Fryske Marren in Friesland, Netherlands. It was launched in February 2022 and is operated as a service line within Sociaal Werk De Kear, a Dutch social welfare organization that is itself part of the Tintengroep conglomerate. The organization manages an up-to-date catalogue of approximately 147 volunteer vacancies, runs a free e-learning/training overview, mediates between prospective volunteers and local organizations, and provides information, advice, and support. Physical service points are maintained in three library locations operated by Bibliotheken Mar en Fean in Balk, Lemmer, and Joure (the headquarters at Midstraat 66). The organization employs approximately 17 staff.

Name

VIP! De Fryske Marren

Legal name

Sociaal Werk De Kear

Website

https://vip.sociaalwerkdekear.nl

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

VIP! De Fryske Marren is a municipally commissioned, non-profit volunteer information point and matching platform operated by Sociaal Werk De Kear, connecting prospective volunteers with local organizations across the Dutch municipality of De Fryske Marren.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Joure

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Public Funding / Municipal Service: VIP! De Fryske Marren is a public welfare service operated as part of Sociaal Werk De Kear, funded through municipal/public channels. The service is free for both volunteers and organizations seeking volunteers.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

VIP! De Fryske Marren is a Volunteer Information Point (Vrijwilligers Informatie Punt) that manages an up-to-date vacancy and training database and mediates between volunteers and organizations in the municipality of De Fryske Marren. The service provides information, advice, and support to individuals seeking volunteer work and to organizations seeking volunteers, operating free of charge through an online platform and physical library locations in Balk, Lemmer, and Joure.

Product overview

VIP! De Fryske Marren is a volunteer information and matching platform operated by Sociaal Werk De Kear. The offering consists of a unified volunteer matching platform with three integrated components: (1) the core VIP! platform for volunteer mediation, (2) a vacancy listing system containing approximately 147 volunteer positions from organizations across the municipality, and (3) a training overview providing free online courses. The platform connects volunteers seeking opportunities with organizations needing help, and provides information, advice, and support services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• VIP! De Fryske Marren Platform A volunteer matching and information platform that manages up-to-date vacancy and training overviews, mediates between volunteers and organizations in the municipality of De Fryske Marren, and provides information, advice, and support to people seeking volunteer work and organizations looking for volunteers.
• Vacatureplatform (Vacancy Platform)

Named customers10 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

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App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Sociaal Werk De KearcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerVIP! De Fryske Marren is an integral part of Sociaal Werk De Kear, the welfare organization serving the municipality of De Fryske Marren. Sociaal Werk De Kear provides the organizational structure and funding for VIP! services, integrating volunteer coordination with broader social welfare offerings including support for living independently, healthy lifestyle, and caregiver support.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Others

• Welzijn Nederland: Dutch national association of welfare organizations. Provides sector coordination, advocacy, and best-practice sharing for member welfare organizations including those operating volunteer information points like VIP! — sector umbrella relevant for benchmarking rather than direct competition.
• Humanitas: Major Dutch welfare organization with extensive volunteer-driven programs across healthcare, social support, and community services. Humanitas De Friese Meren is also a customer of VIP! De Fryske Marren, demonstrating ecosystem overlap and a welfare-peer relationship rather than direct competition.
• Sociaal Werk De Kear: Direct parent welfare organization operating VIP! De Fryske Marren as an integrated service line. Provides organizational structure, funding, and broader social welfare context (independent living, caregiver support) within which VIP! operates — relevant as parent rather than competitor.
• Bibliotheken Mar en Fean: Dutch library network hosting VIP!'s three physical service points in Balk, Joure, and Lemmer. Partner organization enabling the trusted, accessible, free physical presence that underpins VIP!'s service model and a structural enabler of the operating concept.
• Mezzo: Dutch national association supporting voluntary organizations in informal care and welfare. Provides umbrella support, advocacy, training, and resources for member organizations running volunteer programs similar to VIP! — adjacent enabling organization rather than direct competitor.

Direct peers

• Stichting Present: Dutch nonprofit connecting volunteers with short-term social projects in their neighborhoods. Operates similar volunteer matching and mediation services with a comparable community-led model across multiple Dutch regions — a directly comparable grassroots volunteer-infrastructure peer.
• NLvoorelkaar: The largest Dutch national volunteer matching platform, offering free online volunteer-organization matching across the Netherlands. Closely comparable to VIP! De Fryske Marren's core service model but operating at national scale rather than confined to a single municipality, making it both the most direct substitute and the natural consolidation target.

Broad incumbents

• VolunteerMatch: Long-established US-based volunteer matching platform connecting millions of volunteers with nonprofit opportunities. Provides analogous volunteer-organizational matching infrastructure at much larger scale and serves as an international benchmark for the category.
• Goodify: Global corporate volunteer and nonprofit engagement platform offering volunteer-organizational matching alongside broader employee engagement and CSR programming. Comparable matching functionality but addresses enterprise/wellness use cases rather than grassroots community volunteering.

Regional players

• Tintengroep: Parent welfare conglomerate of which Sociaal Werk De Kear is a member. Comparable Dutch welfare affiliates operate similar volunteer and community service programs in different regions of the Netherlands, making Tintengroep sister organizations structurally and operationally analogous at a regional level.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/VIPdefryskemarren
• Instagraminstagram.com/vipdefryskemarren
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/vip-de-fryske-marren

Revenue estimate

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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