Case Studies   The Danish Neighbourhood Regeneration Programme. Kvarterløft in Copenhagen

Financing

The programme of Kongens Enghave is a joint programme between the municipality of Copenhagen and the government.

The basic funding consists of:

• € 22,5 million for housing and open space improvements

• € 3.3 million for holistic projects

• € 2.7 million for involvement of residents, information and secretariat

• € 1.7 million for social activities in residential neighbourhoods

Apart from that the project has successfully been fundraising for

• Employment projects (European Social Fund (ESF EU) and National funds)

• Social projects (National funds)

• Environmental projects (National funds)

• Youth activities (National funds)

• Culture (National funds and private)

The reason for the fund-raising has in most cases been the wish to find money for a specific activity that was a part of the action plan for the neighbourhood. But the project workers often found themselves in a situation where it was necessary to twist a project idea to some extent in order to make it match the requirements set up by a funding source.

As part of the national background for Kvarterløft the various ministries had agreed to give priority to applications from the neighbourhoods when distributing money from other national programmes etc. This has helped fund-raising a lot.

3.7.2 The relationship between working groups and steering group    3.8.1 Sector division of funding