Receive coaching for your new initiative

Feel free to contact the coach whose field of work you think best matches your initiative. Otherwise, feel free to choose any of these contacts:

Gerald Maureschat

Sustainability, UN Global Goals, green transformation, everyday green living, climate and climate adaptation, biodiversity, nature conservation, environmental protection.

Tel.: +45 2485 0558, e-mail: gema@gentofte.dk

Ida Juhler

Integration, volunteering, disability, employment, the elderly and social issues.
Tel. +45 2048 8868, e-mail: iju@gentofte.dk

Per Sohl

Culture, events, festivals, exhibitions.
Tel. +45 6010 7613, e-mail: ps@gentofte.dk 

Mia Schlichtkrull de Richelieu

Sports, voluntary associations and funding for leisure pursuits.
Tel. +45 4081 8100, e-mail: mlcs@gentofte.dk 

Frederik Georg Stage

Communication, social media, video, strategy, PR.
Tel. +45 3998 3033, e-mail: frgs@gentofte.dk 

You don’t need to have a fully-fledged idea when you get in touch. We’re keen to meet you where you are, so that together we can unpack the idea and come closer to how it can be developed. As a starting point, you will be the driving force in the ongoing process.

Before contacting us, consider these questions:

• Who will your initiative make a difference to?
• Who else have you spoken to about the initiative?
• What do you expect from Gentofte Kommune?
• What do you want to contribute yourself?

An initiative or an idea can be many things, but it must be for the benefit of our community and the people of Gentofte Kommune. You must be prepared to work on making the initiative a reality, perhaps with others.
We've put together a few examples of ideas and initiatives that members of the public have come up with so you can see the kinds of things you could receive coaching on.

Hellerupvej food club

A group of neighbours living beside refugee accommodation want to contribute to integration, among other things by setting up a food club where refugees and volunteers prepare meals together using surplus food from the local supermarkets, for example. Here, Gentofte Kommune provides premises in the Byens Hus meeting place for the food club to use.

Kids learning to cook

How do you promote children’s interest in cooking? By setting up a junior cooking club where children can create food joy and form friendships, which is exactly what one local person wanted to do. Working with Gentofte Kommune, the “Fun with Food” project became a reality, and once a week children aged 8–11 years meet and cook together.

Repair Café

A group of people wanted to start a Repair Café in Gentofte – a non-profit initiative where enthusiastic volunteers meet and provide a repair service for local people to have broken items fixed that would otherwise have been thrown out. The promoters contacted the sustainability network and together they got the project under way, among other things with provision of premises at Byens Hus, and by informing local people about the initiative via the various channels Gentofte Kommune already uses, as well as by passing on recycled materials from our recycling centres.

Visit the Repair Café Hellerup

You can apply for a Gentofte Kommune grant if your initiative matches the purpose of the grant.

Find a grant for your idea here (in Danish)