Description of organisation

Sakala Centre / Sakala Keskus
Sakala Centre (Sakala Keskus) was opened in September 2012 as a modern community culture centre at the heart of Viljandi. Sakala Centre is operating under Viljandi’s municipal government and its primary tasks include organising and developing local cultural life, youth work, pastime activities and creative economy. The centre provides opportunities for pastime activities and adds to the variety of cultural events in town while being either organiser or mediator.
Sakala Centre is also the manager of different institutions of Viljandi, as for example art gallery Kondase Keskus and Viljandi Open Youth Centre (VANT), Viljandi songfestival ground and castle hills.
More information found www.sakalakeskus.ee

Open Youth Centre of Viljandi
Open Youth Centre of Viljandi (VANT) goal is to provide different youth work services and to organise leisure time for young people aged 7-26. In Open Youth Centre´s spot young people have possibility to play table tennis, billiard, table football, air hockey, different boardgames, console games and to use inside extreme hall for skateboarding, BMX and scooter. Also it has a prevention function to avoid violence, alcoholism, smoking and drug addiction among young people. Open Youth Centre of Viljandi is based on the principle of open youth work, which means to support young people’s initiative and to create and give them conditions for development on their free will. We cooperate with different organizations in local area such as schools, police, hobby schools, library, local municipality, youth councils etc.
In the Open Youth Centre of Viljandi work 4 people: a youth centre manager, a youth worker- project manager, a NEET youngsters specialist and a youth worker-administrator.
The Open Youth Centre of Viljandi is opened 6 days a week - on Monday until Thursday 14.00-20.00 and on Friday to Saturday 14.00-21.00. For some more information you may check our homepage https://viljandinoorteinfo.ee/vant, Facebook page here https://www.facebook.com/ViljandiANT/ or Instagram here https://www.instagram.com/viljandiavatudnoortetuba/

Inclusion topics

This organisation is willing to involve volunteers who face situations which make their participation in activities more difficult, from the following categories for different types of project:

• Economic obstacles