COMING SOON TO HAMBURG AND BERLIN
We show you where you are welcome.
TrustVillage is the community platform for Black people in Germany: a verified directory of places where you are treated well, Black-owned businesses in your city, protected experience reports, real stories and the community's events.
- Directory: Black-owned businesses in your city
- Verified Welcome seal on the door
- Stories and events from the community
- No advertising
- No data selling
- Hosted in the EU
- Verified by the community
A platform that knows you.
Six building blocks, one home: everything the community has organised in scattered groups and chats until now, in one place.
Directory and map
Find Black-owned businesses and verified places in your city: hairdressers and Afro shops, restaurants, services, churches and more.
Verified Welcome seal
Businesses that commit to respectful treatment and are confirmed by members carry the seal on their door and in their profile.
Experience reports
Share experiences of discrimination safely and anonymously. Individual experiences become numbers that nobody can ignore any more.
Stories
Real stories from the community: arriving, everyday life, career, family. Told by the people who lived them.
Events
From Afrobeats to networking night, from church service to festival: the community's calendar, with RSVP.
Pro network
Mentoring, vetted employers and guidance on finding a flat: support for your next step.
How it works.
Discover
Choose your city and find places, businesses, stories and events recommended by the community.
Recommend
Confirm places where you were treated well, share experiences safely and help others with what you know.
Grow stronger together
Recommendations become seals, reports become statistics, visibility becomes economic strength.
Your experiences are safe.
TrustVillage does not publish accusations against individual businesses. We highlight where you are welcome. We record experiences of discrimination in a structured and encrypted form and publish them exclusively as anonymous statistics per city and sector. That builds evidence without you ever having to expose yourself.
Stored encrypted
Published only as statistics
Forwarded only with your consent
Show the community that it is welcome.
The TrustVillage Verified seal is an invitation on the door: you will be treated with respect here. It comes from a signed commitment and confirmations by real members, and it is renewed every year. For Black-owned businesses the basic listing is free forever.
Basic listing
€0
Verified
€29 / month
Premium
€79 / month
Your membership.
Reading stays free for everyone, because the directory belongs to the community. Your membership funds a platform without advertising and without data selling.
Free
€0
- Directory and map
- City guide highlights
- Selected stories
- View events
Community
THE HEART OF IT€1.99/ month or €19 / year
- Post recommendations and stories
- Full story archive
- Event RSVP
- Detailed statistics
- Community groups
Pro
€9.99/ month or €99 / year
- Everything in Community
- Mentoring matching
- Job board of vetted employers
- Guidance on finding a flat
- Partner discounts
City by city.
We start where the directory is full from day one, and open each new city only when it is ready.
- Hamburg
- Berlin
- Frankfurt
- Cologne
- Munich
- Ruhr region
Questions and answers.
TrustVillage is a community platform for Black people in Germany. It brings together a verified directory of Black-owned and welcoming businesses, protected experience reports, stories, city guides and events in one app and on this website.
We follow the Green Book principle: we highlight where you are welcome, instead of publicly accusing individual businesses. We record experiences of discrimination in a structured form and publish them exclusively as anonymous statistics per city and sector. That protects you legally and personally, and it makes the data strong as evidence. A place without a single recommendation in a well covered city also speaks for itself.
The directory, the map and selected content stay free forever. Community membership costs 1.99 euros a month or 19 euros a year, Pro costs 9.99 euros a month or 99 euros a year. For Black-owned businesses the basic listing is free.
We are starting in Hamburg and Berlin as soon as the directory is well filled there. The waitlist is open: whoever signs up hears the launch date first and receives an invitation to the closed preview.
TrustVillage is being built in Hamburg, out of the community and together with ambassadors, organisations and businesses from the community. No advertising, no data selling, hosting in the EU: these commitments are part of the concept, not marketing.
Sign up as a business through the waitlist. The basic listing is free. For the Verified Welcome seal you sign a commitment and are confirmed by members of the community. Founding businesses receive their first Verified year free.
Be there from the start.
Join the waitlist and be the first to know when TrustVillage launches in your city. Businesses that sign up as founding members secure a free first Verified year.
Join the waitlist by emailThe sign-up form goes live with the launch of the domain. Until then a short email is enough.