6 Country Reports on Youth Work - Jugendpolitik in Europa
6 Country Reports on Youth Work - Jugendpolitik in Europa
6 Country Reports on Youth Work - Jugendpolitik in Europa
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activities, open youth work / youth clubs and extracurricular youth educati<strong>on</strong> are the ma<strong>in</strong><br />
acti<strong>on</strong>s fields provided at local level.<br />
Table 42: <strong>Youth</strong> work activities <strong>in</strong> Dutch municipalities<br />
Category of youth work Total number of activities<br />
Cultural youth work 1 2%<br />
Extracurricular youth educati<strong>on</strong> 4 9%<br />
Children and youth recreati<strong>on</strong> 8 19%<br />
Open youth work, youth clubs, etc. 5 12%<br />
Street work/ mobile youth work 3 7%<br />
Sports 20 47%<br />
<strong>Youth</strong> counsell<strong>in</strong>g/mentor<strong>in</strong>g 1 2%<br />
Shelter 1 2%<br />
Furthermore, it should be noted that for-profits are not too eager to talk about their budget,<br />
whereas n<strong>on</strong>-profits, who are often work<strong>in</strong>g with a mix of <strong>in</strong>come sources and a s<strong>in</strong>gle<br />
budget for the whole associati<strong>on</strong>, cannot separate the budget for youth work from their other<br />
activities. Public and semi-public providers, <strong>in</strong> c<strong>on</strong>trast, more often explicitly target young<br />
people and receive fund<strong>in</strong>g for exactly these activities, so they can more easily identify the<br />
amounts budgeted for their youth work.<br />
The whole budget identified at local level amounts to 4.5 milli<strong>on</strong> euros:<br />
Table 43: Budgets of youth work <strong>in</strong> Dutch municipalities<br />
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whole associati<strong>on</strong> mentor<strong>in</strong>g youth centre educati<strong>on</strong> sports total<br />
budget 3826000 120000 150000 487500 600 4584100<br />
Most of the providers f<strong>in</strong>ance their youth work activities through a mix of membership and<br />
participati<strong>on</strong> fees, sp<strong>on</strong>sor<strong>in</strong>g and municipal funds. The reas<strong>on</strong> for the high number of<br />
organisati<strong>on</strong> that depend <strong>on</strong> membership fees is that many of them are sports associati<strong>on</strong>s.<br />
Table 44: Fund<strong>in</strong>g of youth work <strong>in</strong> Dutch municipalities<br />
Membership fees<br />
Participati<strong>on</strong> fees<br />
ESF<br />
F<strong>in</strong>ancial sources 16 30% 13 25% 1 2% 1 2% 9 17% 8 15% 4 8% 1 2%<br />
Cooperati<strong>on</strong><br />
With regard to the youth workers, the most strik<strong>in</strong>g aspect is the large number of volunteers<br />
compared to the relatively low number of part-time employees and the even smaller number<br />
Sp<strong>on</strong>sor<strong>in</strong>g<br />
Municipal funds<br />
Others<br />
43<br />
Not known<br />
%