For over 100 years, the Egmont Foundation has supported thousands of children and families in challenging circumstances. Translated into modern currency, approximately 3,9 billion DKK has been distributed. Here you can read more about some of the initiatives we have supported over time - and those we are supporting today.
Overview of grants
You can see all the grants we have given since 2017 here.
All grants are in DKK.
Since the Egmont Foundation established "Lær for Livet" (Learn for Life) in 2013, over 1000 children aged 9 to 13 have started their summer holiday in the same way - with a summer camp. The camp serves as the starting point for the children's six-year journey in "Lær for Livet," which enhances learning, life skills, and most importantly, community. At the summer camp, this naturally happens through plenty of play, fun, and laughter.
The community program of Børnehjælpsdagen (The Children's Aid Foundation) works to create more activities, new communities, positive relationships, and make a difference for even more children and young people placed outside the home through empowerment days, Christmas parties, summer gatherings, and camp activities.
The aim is to ensure that children in special schools are included to a greater extent and can benefit from recreational activities and the communities associated with them. The essence of the effort is to demonstrate and convince all stakeholders that the children are capable of participating and that barriers can be removed. Therefore, Specialsport.dk has developed a program where children can try out selected activities in practice.
GAME trains young Playmakers. The training enables them to establish and facilitate sports communities in their own local communities for children and young people who, for various reasons, do not otherwise have access to sports and club activities. In addition, Playmakers are also taught GAME's Empowerment method, where they learn about both individual and social life skills and how to create, facilitate, and maintain positive communities.
The purpose of BLING's För-orten competition is to motivate, inspire, and support young individuals from vulnerable residential areas to enhance their entrepreneurship skills. It aims to create better opportunities for entrepreneurship, regardless of one's background or location in the country.
Learning inequity in language and vocabulary is established early on and follows the child through life with negative consequences for the likelihood of getting a youth education. This donation strengthens the linguistic development of children at risk in daycare institutions through weekly reading groups and book packages.
Der gives økonomisk støtte til børn i udsatte positioner i Stockholm, Göteborg og Skåne. Støtten går eksempelvis til julehjælp, sommeraktiviteter og udstyr og tøj ved skolestart. Den direkte, økonomiske støtte ledsages af mere langsigtede indsatser for at styrke børnenes trivsel og deres muligheder for social inklusion.
The Norwegian Women’s Public Health Association distributes financial support through counseling centers to relatives of people with addictions and/or mental health challenges. The goal of the support is to strengthen the children's social relationships and opportunities to live a normal childhood.
Danish People's Aid assists families and children of single providers on transfer income who live in vulnerable life positions. This is partly through direct support that creates joy in the moment, and partly through long-term efforts that contribute to lasting change. The support is given, for example, as confirmation assistance, family activities, holiday help, Christmas aid, and back-to-school assistance.
The distributions are targeted at children, youth, and families in vulnerable residential areas. Financial support is provided to families participating in initiatives at Bydelsmødre or Baba. The support, for example, goes towards equipment for leisure activities, camp trips, and school.
from our foundation support
We bring stories to the world that matter to people and society. Through our support for children and young people, we help to enlighten, inspire, and push for changes.
Bornholm should be an island of opportunity where the smallest Bornholmers have the best possible start to life with their families. This is the vision for De små børns Bornholm (in English The small children in Bornholm), which among other things has created close collaboration between the municipality and civil society - for the benefit of the little ones and the whole family.
Young people living with an illness are at risk of their illness taking over their teenage years. The vision of Egmont’s new signature programme, SygtStærk (in English StayStrong), is that everyone should be able to complete a youth education and live a good teenage life despite illness.
It requires a joint effort when children and young people show worrying school absence. Together with the organisation Børns Vilkår (in English Children’s Wellfare), Egmont works to reduce school absence in order to support good child lives and learning in school.