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The Greens want to fund the sports funding agreement for organized sport at a level that covers actual needs. For volunteers, they call at the federal level for higher tax-free allowances. The platform's reasoning is that volunteering in sport is declining.

Many people in Hamburg volunteer in sports clubs. The Greens want to support this work. Volunteers should pay less tax on what they are paid. The clubs should get enough money from the city.

At the federal level, the party supports raising the tax-free allowances for coaches and for volunteers. The sports funding agreement is to take into account inflation, rising staff costs, and renovation needs, especially climate-friendly renovation of club-owned facilities. The range of offerings, from sport in public spaces to grassroots clubs to elite sport, is to grow. The platform also backs the expansion of the Olympic training center at Dulsberg and wants to encourage more schools to adopt a sports-focused profile.

The Greens want to meet the growing need for sports space by building multi-story halls and opening school gyms to clubs for longer. Elementary school gyms are to be available from 4 p.m. instead of 5 p.m. New halls are to be barrier-free.

Hamburg needs more space for sports. The Greens want to build sports halls on top of each other. Clubs should use elementary school gyms from 4 p.m. New halls should be accessible for everyone.

For new buildings, it is to be checked routinely whether halls can be stacked. Planning of school gyms is to consider the needs of all sport, not just school sport. The framework agreement on the use of school sports facilities is to be changed so that district offices can allocate elementary school gyms an hour earlier, mainly for children's and youth sport. Clubs are also to be able to use other exercise rooms in schools free of charge outside school hours. Booking of all school and district halls is to be organized digitally.

The Greens want money not to be a barrier to club sport, especially for children and young people. Benefits from the Bildungs- und Teilhabepaket (education and participation package) are to be easier to claim. In addition, girls and women in sport are to be specifically supported and free offerings in parks expanded.

All children should be able to join a sports club. This includes children from families with little money. Getting state help for this should be easier. Girls and women should get more chances in sport. There should be more free sports in parks.

Billing under the education and participation package is to be simplified to relieve parents and clubs. The Parksport project, which organizes free exercise offerings in public parks, is to receive continued support and be expanded. According to the platform, only about 34 percent of club members are female and women hold under 30 percent of positions, so offerings are to be expanded and women recruited for leadership roles. In a time-limited pilot project, street workers and social workers are to be attached to sports clubs in disadvantaged neighborhoods, as a link to the general social service and schools.

If Hamburg is considered as one of several host cities for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Greens want the public to be involved early and to make the final decision. The party intends to follow the process critically and constructively.

Hamburg may bid for the Olympic Games. The Greens want to inform people in Hamburg early. In the end, the citizens should decide. The plan must be clear and must not cost too much.

The platform sees opportunities in hosting the Games at home: more attention for individual sports, modernized venues, and encounters and cohesion. It points to the 2015 referendum and concludes that a concept must be transparent, clear, sustainable, and soundly financed. The Greens acknowledge efforts already under way in that direction. The precondition would be that the German Olympic Sports Confederation considers Hamburg as a co-host.

After the ban on the Islamic Center Hamburg, the Blue Mosque should again become a place for Shiite believers and for Iranians in exile. The Greens want to achieve this in close dialogue with these groups.

The state banned the Islamic Center Hamburg in 2024. It had used the Blue Mosque. The Greens want Shiite believers to use the mosque again. Iranians in exile should also have a place there. The Greens want to talk with these people about it.

The platform welcomes the July 2024 ban on the IZH, which in the Greens' view used the mosque as a propaganda center of the Iranian regime. It also notes that the mosque was always a place for prayer, weddings and mourning, and that its visitors should not be condemned wholesale. Its future use is to be worked out together with Iranians and Shiites in Hamburg.

The Greens want to keep supporting and expanding the exchange among religious communities and with the city. Together with the communities, a permanent place and format for dialogue is to be created that also includes non-religious associations.

In Hamburg, religions have talked with each other for a long time. The Greens want to strengthen this exchange. There should be a fixed place for talks. Groups without religion should take part too.

The platform points to the Interreligious Forum Hamburg, where the communities have been in exchange since 2000. Everyone should be able to practice their faith in Hamburg safely and peacefully. In the party's view, dialogue also means tolerating differences.

The Greens want to create an office in Hamburg that informs and advises on new religious and ideological groups and so-called psycho-groups. The reason given is that some communities create psychological dependence and can thereby endanger individuals, families and society.

Some groups make people dependent on them. That can harm people and families. The Greens want a counseling office for this in Hamburg. People affected and their relatives can get help there.

The office is meant for those affected and their relatives. It is to offer both pastoral counseling drawn from several religions and support that is independent of religion. The platform sees the risk in religious and non-religious communities alike.

The Greens want to strengthen consumer protection through information, education, transparency, and enforcement of rights. The consumer advice center is to be expanded further, and consumer education is to start in daycare centers and schools.

The Greens want to protect consumers better. Consumers are people who buy things or sign contracts. The consumer advice center should offer more services. Children in daycare and school should already learn about this.

The consumer advice center's digital and neighborhood-based services are to continue. The consumer schools project is to reach daycare centers as well, with help from the state institute for teacher training and the state agency for civic education. Results of the quarterly survey "Verbraucherschutz-Pegel" are to be used for improvements. At the federal level, the party wants to push for fair contract terms and stronger consumer rights.