Welcome to Trøgstad volunteer centre!
Would you like to spend some of your time with others?
Do you want to meet new peole?
Do you have some ideas you would like to realise?
Frivilligsentralen (The Volunteer centre) is a meeting place. We connect people in the community together. Some need help and others wish to help.
The joy of helping others is the payment you get! Help received from the volunteer centre is free of charge.
We are only limited by our imagination!
We have "language café" every Thursdag at 5 PM. Norwegian speaking volunteers are ready to welcome you to a nice chat around a certain topic, often something relevant to the season/what's happining in the new etc. We also serve coffee, tea and some snacks, often Norwegian waffles. People from many different countries participate.
We have a thrift stores run by volunteers:
- At Trøgstad torg 3, in the centre of Skjønhaug we have "Gjenbruksbutikken" There they sell furniture, kitchen utilities, fabrics, loads of nice glasses and tableware, vases and much more. All for a cheap price. Ph: 913 37 282 The thrift store =Gjenbruksbutikken is open Tuesday-Saturday from 11AM to 2 M. Gjenbruksbutikken have their own facebookpage: Gjenbruksbutikken, Trøgstad.
We har two cafés. Please stop by!
- The one in Skjønhaug is open monday, wednesday, friday 11AM to 2 PM. Ph: 476 95 211
- In Båstad they are open monday, wednesday-friday from 11AM to 3 PM. Ph: 940 95 715
Our manager has office space in Torvet bok og mer together with the library amoungs many others. Torvet bok og mer is on the ground floor in Trøgstad Sparebanks building.
Some other activities we are involved in:
- BUA: we loan out lots of different sports equipment for FREE! We have two BUA's: the main one is located within the library, the other one is located by the gocart track. For more information see our website: https://www.bua.no/bua-trogstad/utstyr and https://www.bua.no/bua-trogstad-selvbetjent/utstyr
- Help with homework
- Reading friend
- Bike taxi (we have electric bikes with room for two passengers that we use to give people a nice ride outdoors so they can feel the wind in their hair)
- Seniorkafe every other Thursday at 2 pm
- A walking friend
- Hyggetreff at Trøgstadheimen every 4th Wednesday of the month at 6:30 pm. We serve food and have entertainment at Trøgstadheimen.
- Needlework/knitting group. They make things for sale at the thrift store and for our anual bazaar. They meet every Wedensday at the café from 10:30-13:00.
- Bowls every monday.
- We deliver library books once a month.
- Follow people to different appointments
- Help with grocery shooping and other practical things.
- We sell a lot of waffles at different events!
- Computer training.
- Baby/toddles gatherings
- Baby visitors (parents and babies together visit the local nursing home)
- and much more!