plusX creates equal opportunities with free vouchers.

Not everyone can actively organize their free time. With our free vouchers from plusX, everyone has a chance to participate.

Junge Leute, die sich umarmen und Spaß haben

The current situation in Germany

Imagine it's summer and your friends are going to the swimming pool or climbing in the high ropes course. For you, however, it's clear that you'll only be able to buy the bare essentials this month.The trip there and back by public transport alone would hardly be feasible, and having to buy something to eat or drink as well, like everyone else does as a matter of course, would be so expensive that there wouldn't be much left over for the rest of the month.

The feeling of not having the same opportunities and freedom to organize one's free time is very stressful for many.

In Germany, about one in five children lives permanently or temporarily in circumstances where leisure activities, such as a visit to the zoo or the cinema, are financially unmanageable for them and their families.

In addition to visits to the zoo, many other activities are part of social life. Unfortunately, not being able to participate in them often means feeling excluded.

Our solution

Together with plusX, you can make an impact and close the gap between rich and poor a little further. As a non-profit start-up, we offer a digital donation platform where people who normally can't afford leisure activities receive free vouchers.

So that greater cohesion in society and togetherness is possible again, everyone can donate activities and join in the joy when the voucher is redeemed locally.

The donated vouchers will only be used for the benefit of people who cannot afford the visit. You can reserve the vouchers online and redeem them on site.

On our digital donation platform, we bring together local leisure providers, donors and participants and thus offer the space for more equal opportunities in our society.

How the plusX concept works

Donate voucher

You donate a leisure activity, from one of our partners.

This can be done at one of the local partners by simply buying an additional ticket and then forwarding it to plusX via the partner.

Or you can go to our digital donation platform, select one or more of the activities or simply donate a free amount. You can also register for this if you want to receive a message later that your voucher has been redeemed locally. Of course, you can also donate anonymously.

Book voucher

If you have a social passport (e.g. Köln-Pass or Karlsruher Pass) or other documents proving your eligibility, you can book a voucher for an activity.

To do so, you need to register on our digital donation platform and upload your social passport. As soon as your passport has been confirmed, you can easily reserve one of the available vouchers for yourself. Of course, your name and identity remain anonymous. No one, except a responsible employee, can see that you are a participant. Also the donor of the voucher will only get the notification that someone is happy about the voucher.

Rejoice together

Once you have reserved the voucher for yourself, you can now as the participant easily and without printing, show a QR code and then enjoy your leisure activity.

Once you've registered as a donor, you'll receive a redemption notification about your voucher. With a live feedback, we give you the chance to enjoy with someone when they are enjoying an activity.

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How is plusX financed as a non-profit organization?

plusX is a non-profit organization. With the foundation of plusX gUG we have consciously decided not to build up a commercial business model. Nevertheless, a non-profit organization must also be financed. For this purpose, we use donations, endowment funds and other subsidies.

The special thing about financing plusX compared to other organizations is that the donated value is received 100%. What do we mean by this? If we assume that a visit to the cinema costs 10 € and a donor wants to donate this visit with his donation of 10 €, then exactly these 10 € of the donor will be used for the purchase of the cinema voucher. In the background the cinema operator donates us 2 €, because he also finds it useful to promote social and cultural participation. We at plusX can then use these remaining 2 € to pay our server costs, advertising costs or personnel costs. The actual promise that a visit to the movie theater will be donated remains completely intact.

As a donor, you also have the possibility to check your user account to see exactly what your donations have been used for.

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Why are leisure activities so important?

Leisure activities are not all the same. Television, cell phones, social media and video games now take up the majority of the leisure time of children, young people and adults. At plusX it is all about the other activities!

When we devote our free time to sports, art and culture or even going to a restaurant with friends, we relax, learn new things, shake off the stress of everyday life, maintain old or make new social contacts.

Doing something together gives us the feeling of being part of a group and thus satisfies our social need for exchange, community and relationship.

If you also believe that everyone should have the opportunity to spend their free time actively and self-determined, then donate now for plusX!

It's a fact:

  • Common experiences satisfy our need for social relationships.
  • The organization of leisure time is important for social education, emotional development and the reduction of stress.
  • We learn and grow by experiencing and trying out new things.
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It's a fact:

  • Common experiences satisfy our need for social relationships.
  • The organization of leisure time is important for social education, emotional development and the reduction of stress.
  • We learn and grow by experiencing and trying out new things.

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