Take action
Come Into Action: Donate!
Will you help raise money for the poorest of the poor in our beautiful city?
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Every donation is welcome, big or small. Whether you hold a garage sale, a fundraiser with our donation box or want to bake a truckload of cupcakes: Amsterdammers in need will be made very happy!
The Donation Box: how does it work?
On this page you can very easily create your own donation box for the Regenboog. Then, if you are happy with it, you can easily share it on Facebook, Instagram, via email or Whatsapp.
Need inspiration for a collection? These people donated to the Regenboog! 🙏❤️ THANK YOU ❤️🙏
🌈 Cafe Fest - For the hefty cargo bike of good men's clothing for our walk-in centres
🌈 St. Ignatiusgymnasium - For the St. Nicholas party at our Ukraine shelter in the Savoy Hotel and all the personal gifts the children received.
🌈 Coffeecompany - For the 476 kg (!) of coffee collected for us by the 1-for-1 action, or 63,300 cups of coffee for Amsterdam's homeless. Our own cooperating visitor Alexander (ex-homeless) designed the packaging for this action.
🌈 Primavera Green Coffee (partner of Coffeecompany) - For the donation of 150 kg of coffee which was on top of those 476 kg.
🌈 Hillen & Roosen - For the 14 pastry bars and many previous donations for the walk-in centres.
🌈 MODDIE - For 10% of the proceeds from each soft toy sold from the XXX Amsterdam line.
🌈 Crisp Netherlands - For donating all kinds of food for our walk-in centre Makom for over half a year.
🌈 Wijngaarde Makelaars - For the more than 100 winter coats you collected for the homeless by even collecting them here and there (photo 7). 🌈 Michiel Melief - For the two Christmas dinners, including at our 24-hour shelter T6 (photo 8) (and see link from RTL News at the bottom of this post).
🌈 Amnesty International Netherlands - For cooking soup at our walk-in centre Makom which will be cooking at Amnesty again this month - see who makes the most beautiful soup in this soup-challenge.
🌈 IAS Green B.V. - For donating your Christmas bonuses in sleeping bags for the outdoor sleepers of Amsterdam.
We are super happy with everything and want to thank everyone who contributed. And everyone who also did something for us in and around the December month, but is not mentioned here of course. How heartwarming it was again. 🙏❤️
Dick the pastry chef (from Bakkerij van Leeuwen) makes sure we have good clothes at our walk-in centre Makom, in addition to his donations of breads and other goodies (photo left)
Uniqlo / UNIQLO Europe donated some 2.000 pieces of collected second-hand garments and as many as 1,000 pieces of thermal underwear 
, shown here by visitors to our walk-in centre Makom (center)
Informa Connect brought by with 48 bags, containing o.among others, a turtleneck, hat, foil blanket, gloves and socks. Especially for homeless people living on the streets. On each bag they had written a personal, sweet message (photo at right).
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So you see, you can do anything!
If you don't have time to collect stuff and bring it by, consider the donation box from De Regenboog Groep.
It's super easy!
1) On the special page create your personal donation box
2) Share the link to your donation box via email, whatsapp or other social media.
3) Done, everyone wins!
What can you do to collect donations?
Reading this and are you a child? Then you can organize a fundraiser, for example, with your class, sports club, team or street.
Think of baking cookies, making flower or Christmas arrangements and selling them.
Have too much stuff you don't use? Organize a flea market in your street or at your club!
Whatever you do, the proceeds may go into the donation box and you will help homeless, lonely or very poor Amsterdammers.
More inspiration!
The staff of Tencent came a mountain of collected good clothes and shoes to our new walk-in centre AMOC-West (left).
The Fair East made collection bins especially for us for good garments and sleeping bags, which can be brought at any time (right).
Marcel sold mini carrot cakes for The Regenboog!
Marcel from Old West had a great idea for King's Day and sold mini carrot cakes via Facebook and Instagram (so not on a blanket on the street).
He donated the proceeds to The Regenboog!
"For King's Day, I held a donation among my social media friends and contacts for The Regenboog on FB and Insta. I baked mini carrot cakes and sold them for 48 hours via social media to donate the proceeds to The Regenboog.
I sold about 50 and apart from that there were many dear friends who wanted to donate money on their own as well, was really great!"
Marcel verkocht mini carrotcakes voor De Regenboog!
Marcel uit Oud-West had een goed idee voor Koningsdag en verkocht mini carrotcakes via Facebook en Instagram (dus niet op een dekentje op straat).
Hij doneerde de opbrengst aan De Regenboog!
"Voor Koningsdag heb ik een donatie gehouden onder mijn social media vrienden en contacten voor De Regenboog op FB en Insta. Ik heb mini carrot cakes gebakken en deze 48 uur lang via social media verkocht om de opbrengst aan de Regenboog te doneren.
Ik heb er zo'n 50 verkocht en los daarvan waren er veel lieve vrienden die ook alleen geld wilden doneren, was echt top!"
Take action: do!
You can donate, or do something! Here you will find appeals from our walk-in centres or other branches of De Regenboog Groep, through which you can make people less fortunate shine.
Come perform for homeless Amsterdammers!
In addition to meeting the basic needs of homeless people in our walk-in centres, we do what we can so that they can sustain a hard life on the streets.
For the homeless, the walk-in centre is a place to take a break without being hounded. A place to relax among themselves and be seen as human beings. Here, of course, the necessary entertainment also provides conviviality and relief.
This is why we are looking for people who can provide a live music performance. Whether you come to do this on your own with your guitar, with your band or with a club of colleagues or friends. All fun!
- When? Any day v/d week possible, except Tuesday, starting at 1 p.m. (max one hour). Activity can take place once a month.
- Where? Inloophuis Oud-West, Bilderdijkstraat 182, Amsterdam.
- Number of volunteer activity? Max 5 people at a time.
- To bring? The necessary instruments and other technology and possibly some snacks to make it a fun afternoon of music. Furthermore, a monetary donation to continue our work in the walk-in centre is of course always very welcome, but certainly not a must.
- Note: For the running of our walk-in centres we depend on the donations of donors, that is why we ask you to bring something to snack on. Only if you can, of course, otherwise we'll be fine.
Subscribing or questions? Mail to oud-west@deregenboog.org or call 06 82 06 26 49