Built for the Algarve, not just business.
Algarve Circle isn't only a place to get found. It's a way to put something back, into the community, the coastline and each other. Charities list for free, neighbours buy and sell second-hand instead of throwing away, greener businesses get the spotlight, and the community organises its own clean-ups.
Free for good causes
Verified Algarve charities get every premium feature at zero cost, forever. Same reach, same tools, no bill. The 39 verified charities below are already on the map. If you run a registered charity here, we want you on it too.
Animal welfare9
Tiny Shelter
Albufeira dog rescue run by founder Isabel Searle, with over 1,274 dogs rehomed and a registered association since March 2022.
Santa Barbara Animal Help
Refugio dos Burros
People & community26
ACCA - Helping Children in the Algarve
Castelo de Sonhos
Refood Algarve
Associação Madrugada
Associação Humanitária de Bombeiros Voluntários de São Brás de Alportel
Associação Humanitária de Bombeiros Voluntários de São Bartolomeu de Messines
Associação Humanitária dos Bombeiros Voluntários de Vila Real de Santo António e Castro Marim
Environment & nature4
A Rocha Portugal
Christian conservation organisation founded in the Algarve in 1983 near Ria de Alvor, running its Cruzinha field centre near Portimao.
Beat throw-away culture
The best thing you can buy is something that already exists. The Algarve Circle marketplace keeps good stuff in use and out of landfill, sold between neighbours, with no commission.
Greener businesses
Businesses that have shared a real sustainability commitment, reviewed and badged. The ones putting in the work to tread a little lighter.
Organise a beach clean-up
Circles are how the community gets together, a running club, a language exchange, or a Saturday morning on the sand with bin bags and good company. Start one, invite your neighbours, and turn a good intention into a date in the diary.
A cleaner coast, organised by the people who love it most.
Doing well by doing good
A platform shapes the place it serves. We'd rather Algarve Circle made the Algarve a little kinder and a little greener, not just busier. So charities never pay, the marketplace keeps things out of landfill, the businesses making a real effort get seen, and the community has a simple way to act together.
None of it is a side project. It's built into the platform, the same tools every business uses, pointed at the things that matter here, the coastline, the causes and the community that make the Algarve what it is.
Be part of the good.
Create a free account to join Circles, list something second-hand, follow the causes you care about, and help keep the Algarve thriving.