Brief description
- We offer counselling and projects relating to work and livelihood issues.
- We help all people in the Basel region who are unemployed, have problems at work or have problems with social systems.
- We work flexibly and without a lot of bureaucracy.
- We are there for all those seeking advice. We try to find solutions with the people and organisations involved.
- Most of our money comes from foundations.
- We were founded in 1984 by unemployed people as a self-help group.
- General questions about the organisation can be addressed to info@kstbasel.ch be provided.
Our team
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Counselling
Manuel Schwarz
schwarz@kstbasel.ch
+4161 209 33 22
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Counselling
Meret Barfuss
barfuss@kstbasel.ch
+4161 209 37 44
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Projects
Sarah Zurbuchen
zurbuchen@kstbasel.ch
+4161 693 40 47
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Projects
Sarkis Kurtcuoglu
Kurtcuoglu@kstbasel.ch
+4161 691 24 36
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Counselling
Katrin Heegewald
heegewald@kstbasel.ch
+4161 691 51 41
Important people
Management Board
- Delphine Conzelmann, President
- Reto Baumgartner, Director of the BS Trade Association
- Dieter Erb, lawyer and social worker
- Christoph Moerikofer, Mediator
- Judith Alder, psychotherapist
Revision
- Beat Keller, accountant with a federal certificate
Patronage Committee
- Carlo Knöpfel (Lecturer at the School of Social Work)
- Lukas Kundert (President of the Church Council ERK BS)
- Ueli Maeder (Professor emeritus of Sociology)
- Martina Saner (Managing Director Winterhilfe, Basel)
- Hans Schäppi (historian, President of the Solifonds, Basel)
- Martin Stingelin (President of the ERK BL Church Council, pastor)
- Udo Rauchfleisch (Professor emeritus of Clinical Psychology)
- Elli von Planta (former President of the Social Conference, former President of UBS Employee Representation)
The association
The contact centre is a non-profit association.
Purpose of the organisation in simple language
The association offers a counselling centre. Counselling is free of charge. The advice centre helps unemployed and working people. People with a migration background in particular are supported. The advice centre helps with social and legal issues. It also supports self-help projects and groups.
The advice centre monitors what is happening in the area of work. This includes labour law, labour market policy, unemployment and poverty. It works closely with other groups, organisations and authorities. It contributes its observations and ideas to meetings with other institutions and authorities.
Financing
The organisation receives half of its money from foundations, churches and private individuals. A quarter of the money is for special projects. The remaining quarter comes from the government.
Thanks to:
- CMS, Christoph Merian Foundation
- Municipality of Bettingen
- Evangelical Reformed Church Basel-Landschaft / Church Council
- Evangelical Reformed Parish of Laufen
- FBA, Fund to Combat Unemployment Canton of Basel-Stadt
- GGG, Society for the Good and the Common Good
- Goldschmidt-Jacobson Foundation
- Catholic parish office Liestal
- Koechlin-Vischer Foundation
- Commission of the working hut
- Louise Aubry-Kappeler Foundation
- NAK Humanitas
- Margarethe Meyer Foundation
- Allschwil-Schönenbuch pastoral area
- Parish Office Bruder Klaus Birsfelden
- Catholic Parish Office Dornach
- Reformed Parish Sissach-Wintersingen
- Roman Catholic Parish Aesch
- Roman Catholic Diocese of the Canton of Basel-Landschaft
- Rotary Club Basel-Wettstein
- Scheidegger-Thommen Foundation
- Social Welfare Office Arlesheim
- Foundation for assistance to employees
- Perspectives" foundation from Swiss Life
- Sulger Foundation
- Thomi Hopf Foundation
Donations
We would be delighted if you would support the contact centre for the unemployed with a contribution.
Every donation is valuable!
In the cantons of Basel-Stadt, Basel-Landschaft, Aargau and Solothurn, donations to the contact centre can be deducted from taxes.
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