BSW on other topics

The BSW wants to promote grassroots sports and invest heavily in maintaining and building sports facilities in the coming years. Priority goes to facilities for school sports and to swimming pools so that people can swim. Youth and elite sports are also to receive lasting support.

The BSW wants sports to be possible for everyone. The state should keep or build gyms and sports fields. Gyms for school sports and swimming pools matter most. Coaches in elite sports should get proper pay. Children and teenagers should be able to do sports everywhere.

Funding programs should be long-term, simple and reliable and focus more on energy efficiency, accessibility and shared use. For elite sports, the program calls for permanently secured coaching positions, appropriate pay and modern training centers. The sports medical exam for admission to state sports schools is to become free. Schools, daycare centers and clubs should cooperate more closely in children's and youth sports. The party backs the state sports federation's 2026 sports policy demands.

The BSW wants more recognition for volunteers and fewer hurdles for part-time civic engagement. Leave entitlements are to be extended, volunteer allowances raised and volunteer work counted toward pensions.

Many people help in clubs for free. The BSW wants to make that easier. They should get time off for it more easily. Volunteer allowances should go up. Volunteering should also count for pensions. Clubs should have less paperwork.

The state leave law is to cover private volunteering in the future. Administrative and funding procedures are to be simplified to relieve clubs and associations. The party considers volunteer cards with regional discounts a proven tool; they should be easier to obtain because the requirements are often too high so far.