Volunteer and donate in Spain
16 active pro bono opportunities for Spain across Europe — local NGOs you can donate to, volunteer with or invest in.
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Volunteer at the Madrid free clinic
Médicos del Mundo España
Médicos del Mundo Madrid offers free medical care to migrants and sex workers without health coverage, plus harm reduction outreach in Madrid Centro.
Cheer up hospitalised children in Barcelona
Pallapupas — Hospital Clowns
Pallapupas trains volunteer clowns who visit children in 14 Catalan hospitals every week, easing the fear of treatment.
Tutor at-risk teens in Madrid's Vallecas district
Fundación Tomillo
Fundación Tomillo's youth programme in Madrid trains 1,200+ school dropouts a year in cookery, electrics and IT. Volunteers help with homework support and mock interviews.
Co-invest in Spanish impact enterprises
CREAS Foundation
CREAS (HQ Madrid) is Spain's pioneering impact-investment fund manager, with €60M under management in social-enterprise growth equity.
Volunteer at the children's hospital house
Casa Ronald McDonald Barcelona
Casa Ronald McDonald Barcelona houses families of children receiving long-term hospital treatment at Hospital Sant Joan de Déu. Volunteers cook, drive families and play.
Donate to Cáritas — Spain's largest social-aid network
Cáritas Española
Cáritas operates 5,500 parish-level centres in Spain helping 2.7 million people a year with food, housing aid, employment programmes and migrant support.
Fund education for children in poverty in Spain
Save the Children España
Save the Children Spain runs after-school and summer programmes in 50+ low-income neighbourhoods, including Madrid's Cañada Real, plus emergency response abroad.
Sponsor a child in rural Spain or Latin America
Ayuda en Acción
Ayuda en Acción (HQ Madrid) supports 2 million children in Spain, Latin America and Africa with school meals, scholarships and family income programmes.
Support Greenpeace Spain's climate work
Greenpeace España
Greenpeace Spain campaigns against Mediterranean overfishing, Spanish coal plants and microplastic pollution; funded entirely by individual donors.
Walk Barcelona's streets with the homeless outreach team
Fundació Arrels
Arrels serves 2,500+ people sleeping rough in Barcelona. The street team walks pre-defined routes every evening — volunteers welcome after a 4-hour induction.
Fund Mediterranean sea rescues
Open Arms (Proactiva)
Open Arms (HQ Barcelona, formerly Proactiva Open Arms) has rescued 75,000+ refugees from drowning in the central Mediterranean with the Open Arms vessel.
Volunteer with the Spanish Red Cross in Madrid
Cruz Roja Española
Cruz Roja Madrid has 12,000+ active volunteers running ambulance support, blood drives, refugee integration and elderly home visits across the Comunidad de Madrid.
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