A further 30 project partners can look forward to funding commitments, some of which are once again high. There is still a need for consultation for the remaining 20 project applications.

"With around 720,000 euros, we are supporting further impressive charitable projects this year," says Klingebiel. "These projects, which are supported by our volunteers, clearly demonstrate how important our municipal foundation is: for the life and work of our clubs, associations and institutions themselves, but also for the positive and sustainable development of our urban society. Volunteering is and remains the indispensable cement of our urban society. I, the Board of Trustees and the broad majority in our Council are firmly committed to our municipal foundation company and the continuation of federal grants to our municipal foundation company! Only the AFD parliamentary group has joined the fatal demand of the AFD parliamentary group to cancel the Konrad funding."

Klingebiel explains: "Of the 30 further projects approved, over two thirds are in the social sector. These include, for example, funding of around 70,000 euros for the refurbishment of the Salzgitter food bank's premises and 26,400 euros for the modernization of the hospice initiative's IT system and website. 14 allotment garden associations will receive around 340,000 euros for various projects such as the purchase of equipment, minor renovations and major refurbishments. Three fire departments and the DLRG will receive around 46,000 euros from the "public interest" area for media and additional operational equipment and modernization measures."

Managing Directors Simone Kessner and Rainer Dworog, who were present when the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Mayor Frank Klingebiel, presented the funding agreement to the hospice initiative, added: "We are particularly pleased that our funding will enable the hospice initiative to improve its IT and website in order to present its services in a more modern way and attract even more volunteers. The highest grant from the second meeting of the Board of Trustees, namely 152,400 euros, will go to the Schäferstuhl Air Sports Association for the purchase of a glider, which is needed for training purposes."