Volunteering at sidekicks.berlin

Do you care about queer people, our community and our meeting places? Do you like communicating with people? Are you curious about topics such as health care, sexuality and substance use? Would you like to help design your favorite queer places in Berlin? Then volunteering at sidekicks.berlin could be just the right thing for you!

sidekicks is a safer nightlife project for queer people. We are on site at parties, in clubs and bars, at street parties, festivals, in cruising areas and at congresses. We also run workshops and continuously develop our work and materials. We not only provide users with safer use and safer sex utensils such as condoms, HIV tests and safer use kits, but also offer individual advice. This ranges from simple questions such as “Which STIs can be transmitted and how?” to personal concerns such as “How can I minimize my risks when having chemsex and/or using substances?”. Our team always includes full-time and voluntary staff on site.

We offer comprehensive training to prepare you for all assignments. We also enable participation in AIDS-Hilfe training courses. Every month we come together in a plenary session to exchange ideas, all full-time employees plus our approx. 20 volunteers.

Immerse yourself in Berlin’s diverse queer scenes, experience the nightlife up close, make new contacts and help support the community in making their sex lives, their substance use and their lives safer.

Are you interested in joining us? Then get in touch and tell us a bit about yourself and your motivation to join us. A reflective approach to substance use and an understanding of queer lifeworlds are very important to us.