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Objectives. The meanings created by the contract fire department's youth work in this thesis as told by children and adolescents in their free time and everyday life. Hobbies are one of society's means of maintaining the well-being of children and young people. Hobbies have many different aspects of an individual's well-being, such as physical, psychological, and social. The experience of community through doing things together is also an effective way to prevent marginalization among young people. Previous studies (OKM, 2019) have shown that active leisure activities are an important part of development and growth. They develop different skills, such as creating social relationships, self- development and maintaining interaction. One of the key factors of youth work is that it is done by responsible people who get along with children and adolescents. The youth work in the contract fire department teaches children and young adolescents civic and rescue skills. Through the hobby, a lifelong continuum is created where the fire department offers various tasks from alarm operations to educational activities. Methods. The data for this study was collected from the youth department of a contract fire department located in the capital region by interviewing and observing their exercises. The data consisted of interviews with six children and young people and two instructions. The analysis of the data was analyzed by using content analysis. First, the obtained results were coded, after which were classified into themes. Results and conclusions. Based on the results of the research, the contract fire municipality's youth work has different meanings for the children, adolescents and their instructors who engage in it. Through the interviews, it emerged that the young people in question consider the skills they learn to be important for society. The children and adolescents pointed out that they felt that through the contract fire brigade they had gained important useful skills that every member of society should know. Learning and teaching civic skills is beneficial both for the individual and the community. The hobby also creates an opportunity to create new social skills and practice different interaction situations. The results also showed that the children and adolescents who participated were able to use the learned skills and knowledge in their free time as well as in the school. Even though the skills were learned could not be used in everyday life, those interviewees pointed out that they are useful, for example, if you want to apply for a job in the rescue industry. The instructors, on the other hand, pointed out that youth activities in the contracted fire department are also important for the fire department, so that it remains vibrant and at- tracts new actors to the activity.