Olde Vechte Foundation was conceived as an initiative of a group of people, who in 1966 identified a great need for learning that is not provided by the established educational system. Society keeps on changing over the years, becoming more and more intercultural. Still, the need of an “out of the school system” education stays around.
The Foundation’s mission is to create a learning environment out of love, care and cooperation for everyone; especially for people whose needs cannot be met by formal education methods. Modern approaches of non-formal learning are used in all the activities of the Foundation. Kinaesthetic, auditory and visual senses are involved, bringing about learning by experiencing and enabling the full participation of the trainees.
Embracing initiatives for a good cause
Supporting individual learning and growth
Creating a world that works for everybody
The foundation is active in a wide range of fields, on local, national, European and international level and:
- organizes and implements open call educational projects, the content of which is developed according to the needs of the trainees;
- cooperating with Erasmus+ in order to realize Trainings, Youth Exchanges and EVS projects, in line with the needs as they are stated in their guidelines;
- applies for Dutch National Funds for labor market reintegration projects, which are available for long-term unemployed Dutch youngsters;
- collaborates with other organizations from the Netherlands and around the world. Thus, the participants can experience indoor and outdoor activities in the frame of non-formal education and live together in the group accommodation;
- offers its facilities to national and international schools that want to organize educational and creative activities outside the established formal system and experience living in a group setting;
- rentes its buildings as group accommodation to Dutch families when the place is in not needed for other purposes. This provides the Foundation with the financial capability to maintain the buildings.
The Foundation is legally represented by a 3-members board which functions as the decision-making body. Marko Vlaming, youth worker and director of Olde Vechte facilitates the operational part of the Foundation. Olde Vechte Foundation is officially recognized as Public Welfare Institution (ANBI).
Olde Vechte Foundation has become a project organization, by creating a space and supporting people to implement their own initiatives. In detail, all its projects are derived from specialists with great interest and concern on the subject. These people are experienced project managers, facilitators, trainers and mentors, hired by the Foundation on a temporary basis. Also frequently, the former and current volunteers of the organization are inspired to organize and implement projects. The Foundation’s leading Youth Worker is there to support them in their learning process in order to implement their ideas. In this way, everyone mentioned above is shaping the organization.

Marko Vlaming
Youth worker, Head Trainer and Director
Marko started 25 years ago as a youth worker after obtaining his university degree in social and cultural work. Besides doing youth work and trainings, he uses coaching approaches in his daily work. In the last 12 years he developed into an all-round coach. Learning by experience as a method in coaching created a coaching approach that is very focused on working in the here and now. In his practice he works a lot with on-the-job coaching, supporting people to build up their life dream in the way they create fulfillment in their lives, using a wide spectrum of coaching methods and techniques that are currently available.

Yassar Markos
Trainer & Coach

Veronika Pavlová
Trainer

Eddie Wolters
Youth worker & Reintegration Worker

Lena Nasiakou
Trainer & Learning specialist

Anna Moro
Trainer & Coach

Giedre Kaupaite
Trainer

Eimantas Didzbalis
Voice Coach
Trainers with who we collaborated in the past

Martijn Meima
Business intuition specialist

Tihana Dragičević
EMCC Coach, Trainer, Mentor, NLP master

Afonso Bertolo
Trainer, youth worker and project manager

Panagiotis Mamouzakis
Trainer, youth worker and project manager

Cathy Manousaki
Trainer, Project Manager and Media Educator

Ioanna-Nolia Lefa
Trainer