ANNUAL REPORT 2017 CONTENT

Chairman’s Report 4

GAME Playmaker Program 6 Meet the kids from Rosenhøj 6 Volunteer of the year: Leyla Kosar 8

GAME House in 10 Asger welcomes you 11

GAME House in 12 Meet breakdancer Louise 12

Sustainable Development Goals 14

Skate Workshop in GAME House Viborg 16

Street Art in GAME House 18

The National Platform for Street Sports 22

Support on the Asphalt 24

GAME in Lebanon 26

2017 in Pictures 28

2017 in Numbers 32

GAME in the World 34

Financial Statement 36

About GAME 38

Thank you! 39

ANNUAL REPORT 2017

Editor-in-chief GAME HQ Front page picture Simon Prahm Enghavevej 82D 2017 marked the 10 year anniversary of GAME in Lebanon. DK - 2450 København SV The front page picture is from a new GAME Zone in Ansar, Text that GAME has refurbished in cooperation with the Norwe- Marianne Hjort Bøgh Poulsen www.game.ngo gian Refugee Council. Ida Kingo (+45) 70 20 83 23 Photo: Aras Issa Alzaidy. Layout The data in this report is from: Picture this page Emilie Lenau Klint Evaluation of GAME in Danmark 2017, Copenhagen Street basketball is one of the most popular street sports in Print Evaluation of Youth-led Street Sports for All 2017, Beirut GAME House Copenhagen. But the house also offers space On!Ad Evaluation of the National Platform for Street Sports 2017, Copenhagen for street soccer, parkour, street dance, urban music school, street art and lots more. Photo: Rasmus Slotø. REMARKABLE RESULTS THAT MATTER In 2017 GAME took some significant steps to scale impact. On the financial side revenue has grown by impressive 41 % to 4.1 million EUR (2016: 2.9 GAME million EUR). The surplus increased to 0.1 million EUR (2016: 0.04 million NON-NEGOTIABLES EUR), equivalent to 3 % of revenue. Out on the asphalt the number of members is impressive at 7,428 and the collective OPEN ACTIVITIES attendance at all of GAME’s activities hit 120,113. And on the list of the world’s • All children and youth are able to partici- best NGOs, GAME improved its posi- pate regardless of gender, religion, cultural tion and is now placed as 179 (2016: or social background, financial means or 186). skills

While heading forcefully towards am- • Each participant is welcomed with a greet- CHAIRMAN’S REPORT bitious and visionary goals, are we fo- ing by name, a handshake/high-five or a BY ANDERS MONRAD RENDTORFF, CHAIRMAN cusing right? How do we balance the hello and a smile STRONG CORE PRINCIPLES ARE ples of such could be campaigns for impressive growth with the need for THE BASIS FOR INTERNATIONAL more public space for sport, as we have constant developments of methods and EXPANSION seen in Lebanon with the campaign standards, ready for scaling? What will YOUTH-LED een from my chair, the past While the partners will ensure that we ‘Looking for a Place to Dream’ during be important in the next five years? As year in GAME has brought are well-received in the respective the last months of 2017. Finally strong the Chairman of GAME I will take the • The street sports activities are facilitated by nothing less than an interna- countries, the substantial expansion will visual communication has always been initiative to an open inclusive process, young role models with a passion for street tional breakthrough, an iden- require us to reflect on the roots which part of GAME’s success and branding that will allow for the emergence of a sports and/or street culture tification of the core princi- have created the fruits. That is why our should therefore always be present on new strategy. Sples needed to succeed, crucial support staff and volunteers contributed with frontline staff, volunteers, facilities and • The young role models are trained in for the Danish Flagship programs, and important input prior to the Board’s at event sites in order to welcome the GAME’s empowerment approach and remarkable results with increased annual Strategy Seminar in 2017. The street sports enthusiasts. receive guidance and support from GAME’s impact and 41 % financial growth. seminar held in Beirut focused on First, we must always staff 2017 became the year when GAME’s in- how to create a successful rollout with SUSTAINED SUPPORT FOR FLAG- make sure that children ternational aspirations gained momen- the ‘GAME spirit’ intact. It concluded SHIP PROGRAMS and youth are able to SUSTAINABLE FACILITIES tum and reached a major breakthrough. that five things are paramount to re- Looking at the well-run Danish opera- participate regardless of In August GAME launched a partnership member, when ‘packing the suitcase’ tion, which will continue to be the base gender, religion, cultural • Street sports facilities are established and/ project in Somaliland making the fragile before hitting new asphalt strips in of the organization, it has been another or social background, fi- or refurbished to ensure accessibility and self-declared state on Africa’s Horn the Europe, The Middle East, and Africa. year with a healthy organic growth. With nancial means or skills. flexibility for all users first new country in a decade to benefit GAME’s dependency on the continued from GAME’s proven street sports con- support from a few major donors in • The facilities must be equipped with high cepts for social change. Some people regard to two of its flagship programs, Internally, we must focus on the ongoing quality and durable sports equipment ask: Why Somaliland? As we could have the year was expected to be a bit more professionalization of the organization, found many other countries less com- On the list of the world’s turbulent than it turned out. With new while on the external lines we should • GAME is passionate about maintaining the plicated to engage with. But we have best NGOs, GAME has im- significant support from Nordea-Fon- seek to scale the impact and provide indoor facilities’ individuality and inherent chosen Somaliland not based on its proved its position and is den and Novo Nordisk Foundation, I quality activities for more children and structural characteristics convenience and infrastructure, but on now placed as 179. am however happy to see that we have youth. The goal is that the process will the prospects of making a significant lived up to the expectations and that deliver a new strategy ready to be pre- positive impact for the vulnerable local we will be able to continue the efforts sented at the General Meeting in 2019. ADVOCACY children and youth. First, we must always make sure that under the National Platform for Street And it doesn’t stop with Somaliland children and youth are able to parti- Sports as well as continue the develop- On behalf of GAME, I would like to • To create transformative social change a either. In the past year GAME has cipate regardless of gender, religion, ment of the Playmaker Program in the thank our many Playmakers, volunteers, locally relevant issue has to be addressed secured funding for scaling the impact cultural or social background, financial coming years. donors, and partners as well as our pro- and actively advocated to an additional six countries, adding means or skills. Second the activities The results these programs have pro- fessional and engaged staff, all of whom Jordan, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, and must be youth-led as our young Play- duced do speak for themselves and I have played their part in the significant Malta to the map in 2018 followed by makers have proven to be an indispens- am particularly proud of the 373 street achievements over the past year. Your BRANDING Tunisia in 2020. Since our knowledge of able asset for the outreach activities. sports projects supported and the im- contributions have been of great inspi- the local context in many of these coun- Sustainable facilities that are both ac- pressive 170,000 active children and ration and have turned asphalt strips in • Frontline staff, volunteers, GAME facilities, tries is limited, the various projects will cessible and flexible in their offerings youth reached since the Platform’s in- less advantaged neighborhoods into and event sites must always be GAME be implemented in close cooperation are also a must-have, just like advocat- ception three years ago - 70 % more arenas of equality. co-branded with trusted local partners. ing for a locally relevant issue is. Exam- participants than we aimed for.

4 5 If it’s been a bad day - it gets better at GAME Say hello to Numan and Anas from , who play street soccer in GAME Zone Rosenhøj.

In front of the 23 block, at the multi-use I’ve had a bad day, it gets better at sports area in the Rosenhøj neighbor- GAME,” Numan explains. hood, GAME’s Playmakers hold weekly practices. Thirteen-year-old Numan Rosenhøj is one of 33 areas in and 11-year-old Anas are among those where GAME holds practices. For playing street soccer in GAME. 11-year-old Anas, it’s the friendships at practices that are a big draw.

WHY IS PLAYING SOCCER IN GAME COOL? “It’s the friendships that really matter. Nobody fights with each other. We just It’s the have a good time together playing friendships soccer,” says Anas. that really It’s difficult for him to imagine where he matter. could find another community like that. Nobody fights The coaches are very important to Numan. They are all volunteer Playmak- with each ers in GAME and are positive role models. other. We just “It’s cozy, there’s good music and all have a good kinds of fun things going on. When we time together train, the Playmakers are really nice to us and do a lot of fun stuff. We dribble, playing soccer. play and learn to work together.”

Anas, age 11 IF YOU WEREN’T PLAYING SOCCER IN GAME, WHAT WOULD YOU DO INSTEAD? WHY DID YOU START PLAYING STREET “I don’t know. I like having a plan for SOCCER IN GAME? what I’ll be doing every day, instead of “There weren’t a whole lot of activities just sitting at home and thinking: ‘What in Rosenhøj, but then some people do I do now?’ Then you end up on your came out and told us about the prac- phone or your iPad, and there’s just tices at GAME. So we just started nothing to do,” Anas says. playing and having a good time with Anas and Numan practice street soccer,” says 13-year-old Numan. GAME Zones 2017 soccer every week with GAME in GAME has 33 GAME zones in mar- 45% 73% 64% Rosenhøj, in Aarhus. This photo is The day was three or four years ago, ginalized neighborhoods throughout of participating children of participating children of participating from the summer’s GAME Finals, as Numan recalls, when GAME’s Play- Denmark, and 12 in Lebanon. Chil- have gotten better at have acquired skills children have made where all the zones met for a day makers came by and asked if he’d like dren can take part in the practices solving conflicts after they can use in other new friends of tournaments, workshops, cool to join them at soccer practice. His for free, and young, volunteer role starting in GAME music, and tons of prizes. contexts answer was yes. models arrange practices for street Photo credit: Rasmus Slotø. basketball, parkour, street soccer, WHAT DOES PRACTICE MEAN TO YOU? and dance for the kids. They’re also “I’m excitied to go to practice. I look the ones that take care of events like 81% 58% 50% forward to days when I have soccer. If Street GAME. of participating of participating of participating children children feel like children practice sports feel safer in their members of a greater more after starting in neighborhoods community in GAME GAME 6 7 Leyla is a Playmaker: I think my time in GAME can open up even more doors in the future

Twenty-three-year-old Leyla ALWAYS PREPARED FOR WEEKLY A journey I’ve learned a lot through. Kosar is one of 184 Playmak- PRACTICE About myself, too.” ers running weekly practices Three times a year, Leyla Kosar meets at GAME’s 33 GAME zones in up with other youth like her who lead When Leyla isn’t practicing her dance Denmark. Through the Playmaker practices at GAME Zones. There, she’s steps, she’s studying to become a so- Program, she’s gone on a journey learned to communicate her passion for ciologist. After they got to know her as both personally and geographi- dance to children and youth. But to a a GAME volunteer, she’s also landed a cally. large extent, it’s also about the practical part-time job at Fri-Stedet, where she side of facilitating GAME’s open prac- holds her practices. Leyla Kosar starts every dance practice tices, she explains: the same way. Every Thursday, at Fri- EXCHANGE IN LEBANON Stedet in Aalborg, she makes a circle “You never know if five kids will show In the summer of 2017, Leyla Kosar with the children and youth who have up, or if 20 will show up. I plan practices was selected for another Playmaker shown up before they let loose dancing. ahead of time, but if I get five new kids, Program trip: An exchange program I’ll have to make some changes. On top with GAME Lebanon, where two Danish of that, skill levels are different as well, Playmakers visited GAME Lebanon, so I have to be creative and make sure and two Lebanese Playmakers visited everybody can get something out of It’s an exciting journey, GAME Denmark. the practice.” full of learning opportu- “We got to see how the practices nities, and challenges, at works in Lebanon, which was fantastic, times, that you share with It takes time to build a practice program because they don’t have the same kinds the other volunteers, the and reach the point 23-year-old Leyla of equipment and facilities we do. But knowledgeable instruc- has today. Three years ago, she started the kids were happy anyway,” tors, and a bunch of kids her Playmaker Program upon moving to she says. and teens that really value Copenhagen for a short periode. “It was a fantastic trip. I met some your presence and energy. “I haven’t always been a responsible amazing Playmakers. The experiences I A journey I’ve learned a lot Playmaker. It took me time to find my had and the friends I made on that trip will through. About myself, too. place in GAME. I was shy and reserved stay with me for my whole life,” she says. before GAME, and the Playmaker “Volunteer work can look ‘easy,’ camps have challenged that,” she says. In September, Leyla received a visit because you choose whether or not from Salem Loutfi and Lynn Hajj, her you go yourself. But it’s a real pat on ”It’s an exciting journey, full of learn- Playmaker colleagues from Lebanon. the back when you create a stable prac- ing opportunities — and challenges, at tice like this, where you have kids and times — that you share with the other “I think my time in GAME can open up teens showing up. It makes you happy volunteers, the knowledgeable instruc- even more doors in the future,” she and really makes you want to keep tors, and a bunch of kids and teens that concludes. going,” Leyla Kosar explains. really value your presence and energy.

GAME trains young role models (GAME Playmakers) to hold street sports 91% practices for children in less advantaged and marginalized neighborhoods. These of Playmakers feel like members of a greater youths are trained as instructors and volunteer leaders and work on a volunteer community in GAME Facts basis in their neighborhoods to get more children moving and into a community. 2017’s Volunteer Forward focus 91% of the Year In 2018, GAME will be starting a re- of Playmakers have made new friends Leyla was named Volunteer of the search and innovation partnership with Year in GAME for 2017. She has the Novo Nordisk Foundation and Steno 81% distinguished herself with the Diabetes Center Copenhagen, focusing of Playmakers feel more motivated to get amount of time she puts in and on strengthening the work of our vo- involved in volunteer or political work after the high quality of her weekly lunteers and getting more girls involved, they started in GAME practices. She has grown through among other things. This partnership Leyla Kosar is a volunteer Playmaker in the Aalborg GAME zone, and was just named Volunteer of the Year. Every week, she holds open street dance practices these tasks, put forth extra effort is supported by the Novo Nordisk Foun- for local children. GAME’s Playmakers are positive role models, and are a major 86% to get more girls involved, and was dation, and will run from 2018 through part of the social change GAME works toward. of Playmakers have acquired skills they can a fantastic host when GAME Leba- 2020. The Playmaker Program is suppor- Photo credit: Rasmus Slotø use in other contexts non’s Playmakers visited. ted by the Ministry of Culture. 8 Asger Lehrmann is always ready to welcome the users of GAME House COPENHAGEN

Asger Lehrmann is the first Facts about GAME House person the users meet when they Copenhagen walk into GAME House Copenha- gen. He’s ready to go with signup In 2010, together with the Munici- forms and ice packs for sore pality of Copenhagen, GAME ope- knees. We’re the first ned the indoor GAME street sports facility, where the city’s youth can Twenty-eight-year-old Asger Lehrmann ones our users practice street sports, in an infor- is a member of the team that makes and other mal setting, year-round. The basic sure members of GAME House Copen- idea behind it is to create an acces- hagen have a great experience. visitors meet sible, flexible offering for everyone when they walk and anyone who wants to practice “We’re the first ones our users and self-organized sports. The facility is other GAME visitors meet when they into this GAME open year-round and memberships walk into this GAME facility, so we have are inexpensive, so everyone has the to be open, prepared, and smiling, so facility, so we chance to take part. we show that we’re a welcoming or- have to be open, ganization,” explains Asger Lehrmann, junior coordinator. prepared, and 4,422 MEMBERS READY TO GO WITH ICE PACKS AND smiling, so we SIGNUP FORMS show that we’re Asger and the other junior coordinators are responsible for the day-to-day op- a welcoming 42,947 eration of GAME House Copenhagen. VISITS They meet up a half-hour in advance to organization. make sure everything is ready. “I’ve started learning their names and After, they help to bring in members, getting to know our users. It’s really fun 23% sell snacks, fill out signup forms, and be to be able to see them, see that they GIRLS ready with ice packs for sore knees. recognize me, and that they’re willing to talk to me, even though I’m at the of members feel like “It’s the combination of good prices front desk,” he says. members of a greater 74% community and opportunities to play the sport you love, any time of the year, that’s really This summer, it will have been two years cool and unique. That’s something I since Asger Lehrmann joined GAME of members have haven’t seen anywhere else in Denmark Copenhagen, and it’s not something he made new friends or abroad,” he says. regrets. 68%

THE USERS MOTIVATE ASGER “GAME just has this totally unique at- of members practice For Asger, working with children and mosphere, and it’s really cool to be a sports more after youth is what motivates him. Asger part of. It’s really fresh. You don’t come 62% starting in GAME On the first Friday of each month, GAME Streetmekka in Copenhagen holds a Friday Jam with workshops, tournaments, himself plays club basketball and street in and feel like you have to have a suit dance and rap battles, a DJ and good moods all around. In this basketball. He knows how important it on and have to behave ‘professionally’; have made friends picture, Asher Lehrmann celebrates the winner of the skills is to give the members a sense of be- you can just be yourself and talk with challenge at the Friday Jam X-mas edition in December. with different back- Photo credit: Rasmus Slotø longing. anyone,” he concludes. 63% grounds from their own

11 18-year-old Louise: ”Each one - teach one”

Louise Friis Viborg Pedersen is one of many youths who put on a GAME shirt week after This is a way 71% week to make a difference for to pass on your of the members feel like a part of a greater children and youth through community at GAME Esbjerg street sports. knowledge and make others happy. Every Tuesday, Louise Friis Viborg Pedersen throws open the doors to It’s a way you the “mirror room” — better known as develop yourself, 65% of the members have made new friends the dance studio at the GAME House and a way to Esbjerg. Soon after, she’s surrounded by kids and teens, ready to teach them spread the culture breakdancing - first the beginners, and you’re a part of. then the more experienced ones.

54%of the members practice sports more “Each one - teach one! I learned that her to lead practices at GAME House sentence when I first started break- Esbjerg and in GAME’s other zones. after starting in GAME dancing. It means a lot to me,” says Louise. “Through the training, I’ve developed a lot as a coach, since I’ve got the tools to She explains what she’s passionate plan and put on practices; but I’ve also about in GAME: “This is a way to pass learned a lot about myself and other 52% have made friends with different back- on your knowledge and make others people, which has made me more open grounds from their own happy. It’s a way you develop yourself, and outgoing,” she says. and a way to spread the culture you’re a part of,” she says. With her experience from GAME House Facts about GAME ESBJERG Esbjerg and her time as a Playmaker GAME’S ACCESS TO YOUTH PULLED in Kvaglund and on Bøndergårdsvej in Even though GAME House Es- LOUISE IN Esbjerg, 18-year-old Louise Friis Viborg bjerg is only two years old, it has It was back in 2016, when an old Danish Pedersen has since become one of the managed to attract 3.006 active State Railway depot was transformed more experienced GAME people on members. GAME House Esbjerg into GAME House Esbjerg, that Louise the west coast of Denmark. offers a wide range of activities, but first heard about GAME. Since then, there’s one activity in particular that she’s held lots of practices with a GAME “Through GAME, you get all kinds of stands out — 50% of all members shirt on, and helped to welcome the fa- experiences together with a bunch of come to GAME House Esbjerg to cility’s users at the reception desk. She fantastic young people, and you learn skate or scoot. easily identifies what it was that pulled new ways to teach, so you develop her in when she heard about GAME: within your own sport, too,” she says. In January 2016, GAME House Esbjerg opened in one of “I liked the idea of taking a big group “But what matters the most to me as a Esbjerg’s oldest industrial of young people who maybe don’t coach and a Playmaker is the people I buildings, the Danish State have opportunities to take part in tra- teach. The happiness that comes from Railway depot. The location ditional organized sports, or who live in them after teaching them, that just has been transformed into a an environment where it’s easy to get makes me happy and gives me a reason street sports facility available to mixed up in bad stuff, and give them to keep doing what I’m doing.” anyone who wants to engage the chance to play sports,” she ex- with self-organized street sports plains. When Louise isn’t around at the dance and street culture. Here, people studio or the reception desk at GAME can enjoy street basketball, Louise is a breakdancer. She’s a volunteer Playmaker and a part-time Since GAME House Esbjerg opened, House Esbjerg, she’s studying for the street soccer, floor hockey, employee at GAME House Esbjerg. She’s not too crazy about dance studi- os where everyone stands in a line doing the same thing. Her passion is for Louise has completed GAME’s Play- Higher Technical Examination Program parkour, hip hop, breakdancing, breakdancing, where she can be herself through the dance. maker Program, which has equipped at Rybners Technical School in Esbjerg. skating, and street art. Foto: Heiður Erla Þormar

12 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

GOAL 5: Gender equality ACHIEVE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER ALL WOMEN AND GIRLS. GOAL 11: Sustainable cities and communities 41% MAKE CITIES AND HUMAN SETTLEMENTS INCLUSIVE, SAFE, RESILIENT AND of the participants in GAME Lebanon are girls. SUSTAINABLE.

Lebanon is one of the world’s worst countries, when it comes to gender equality. In GAME 56% of children and Playmakers in GAME Denmark Lebanon, 90% of all participants believe have gotten better at resolving conflicts after that girls have the same right to practice starting in GAME. sports as boys. 40% of children and Playmakers in GAME Denmark feel safer in their GOAL 3: Health and neighborhoods after starting in GAME. well-being ENSURE HEALTHY LIVES AND PROMOTE WELL-BEING FOR ALL AT ALL AGES. 71% of all children and youth in GAME exer- GOAL 16: Peace, cise three or more times per week. justice, and strong institutions PROMOTE PEACEFUL AND INCLUSIVE 82% SOCIETIES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, of all children and youth in GAME have PROVIDE ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOR ALL AND made new friends by being in GAME. BUILD EFFECTIVE, ACCOUNTABLE AND INCLUSIVE INSTITUTIONS AT ALL LEVELS. 81% GOAL 17: PARTNERSHIPS of the Playmakers in Denmark are more motivated FOR ACTION to participate in volunteer or community work after started in GAME. STRENGTHEN THE MEANS OF IMPLEMENTATION AND REVITALIZE THE GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. 76% of children and youth in GAME Denmark feel like members of a greater community after starting in GAME. GAME works with partners across all sectors to share responsibility for solutions to global challenges. 80% of the Playmakers in GAME Lebanon have become 14 positive role models in their communities. 15 VIBORG RESIDENTS HELP SET UP RAMPS AND RAILS AT GAME HOUSE VIBORG Involvement of future local skating structures, painting rails, and Facts about GAME House users was an important part sanding ramps in the 3170 m2 space, Viborg of the process in creating the accompanied by a 2000 m2 outdoor GAME House Viborg opens in GAME House Viborg. In the facility. March 2018. In addition to the time leading up to its opening, things it shares with all the GAME Viborg residents were invited “The workshop helped us to get to House facilities, like street basket- to lend a hand at different know the future users of the house, ball, street soccer, street dance, building workshops. and we know they’ll take better care of and parkour - skating, biking, and the facility with the interest in it they’ve street culture are also a big part On November 14, 2017, children shown,” explains Thomas Gissel. of the facility. and adults alike visited the old Vestas building at 2 Nellikevej in Viborg. They Everybody was offered a cold Faxe The original building is one turned up for a skate workshop to help Kondi soft drink and a sandwich at of many abandoned industrial turn the old industrial building into GAME House Viborg, as thanks for buildings. They look grey and an indoor asphalted street sports and helping out at the skate workshop. uninteresting from outside, but the street culture facility. undiscovered spaces inside have “People think it’s just the coolest impressive potential, and can be “We invited people to the building place, and they were so excited for of nearly cathedral-like proporti- workshop so that our future users could the opening. That’s why they were so ons. For EFFEKT architects, who have an influence on how the house willing to help out in the process. Every- planned the building’s successful would look, and give them ownership body agreed that Viborg was missing a transformation, the magnificent in the place,” says Thomas Gissel, place like this,” says Thomas Gissel. space inside was the building’s manager of GAME House Viborg. best quality. They highlighted it by The 3170 m2 building is the fourth in- opening the building up, replacing Some 100 children and adults lent a dustrial building that GAME has over- some concrete walls with glass. hand at the skate workshop, building hauled and renovated to become an as- They also added new features phalted street sports and street culture and gave the building a bright, facility. welcoming exterior.

GAME House Viborg has come about through cooperation bet- ween the Municipality of Viborg, Realdania, The Danish Foundation Many have been patiently waiting for the GAME House Viborg to open and the turnout for Culture and Sports Facilities, for the skate-facility workshop was huge. There was not only time to work, but also TrygFonden, Nordea-fonden, and time to test the mini-ramp. GAME. Thomas Andersen A/S is Photo credit: Heiður Erla Þormar the contractor.

17 Local artists make their mark at GAME House Aalborg In December 2017, shortly before and hopefully help to take care of it,” the opening of GAME House says Anja Lyngsø. Aalborg, eight local artists visited the facility to dot the i’s and cross At GAME House Aalborg, they’re the t’s in the industrial building’s excited by the local support they’ve re- transformation. ceived in transforming the old laborato- ry building in Eternitten: Cooperation between GAME House Aalborg and locals has been an im- “In addition to the work with Frida, portant part of the process in creating I was also lucky enough to have local the city’s new street sports and street artist Jonny Hefty bring together a culture facility. That’s why local artists team and inaugurate our exterior graf- were invited for a workshop. fiti walls. The local support has been overwhelming, and we’re really thank- “We really wanted to engage with ful for it,” concludes Anja Lyngsø. the locals in Aalborg early on in the process, so we invited eight local graf- fiti artists. We asked them to interpret what GAME House Aalborg is,” ex- plains the manager of GAME House Aalborg, Anja Lyngsø.

The result of the workshop was eight pieces of art, each of which has become Facts about GAME House a part of the asphalted street sports and Aalborg street culture facility. One of the main driving forces of the workshop is Frida This past year, the old laboratory Stiil Vium, who has since maintained building in Eternitten has undergone close ties with GAME House Aalborg: a transformation from a worn-out industrial building to an innovative “It means a lot to me to be engaged street culture facility. In renovating because that way I feel a sense of own- the building, we respected the ership in the facility. I said yes because I original building’s qualities, so that love GAME’s concept and really wanted GAME House Aalborg can become to support this new facility in my local a place that inspires new kinds of community,” says Frida Stiil Vium. movements and communities — a living ’street laboratory’. Ownership and involvement are key words at the new facility, according to The GAME House Aalborg project its manager: has come about through coopera- tion between the Municipality of “With the different workshops we held Aalborg, Realdania, The Obel Family before opening, we invited Aalborg Foundation, TrygFonden, Nor- residents to come in and make their dea-fonden, The Danish Foundation mark on Aalborg’s new street sports for Culture and Sports Facilities, and and street culture facility. By involving GAME. The contractor is Pallisgaard them, we gave them an opportunity to A/S and architectural design for the User engagement is important in the design of GAME Houses and to open the gates, local was ready the house in Aalborg before local art. Here, invited to work on the house street artists were street artist Frida Stiil Vium is working on her piece. BrknRib Photo and Artwork Photo credit: quickly take ownership of the house, project is by JaJa Architects.

18 20 VOLUNTEERS PLAYMAKERS & THREE YEARS - ONE PLATFORM

Direct support for new sports projects sports projects in Denmark in 2015, injections’ to outdated activities,” ac- is a catalyst for a lively local street 2016, and the first half of 2017. These cording to IDAN. sports environment. Even with relative- funds have in this period supported 355 ly limited means, the National Platform projects throughout the country. DE-BUREAUCRATIZATION WORKS for Street Sports is able to reach out According to IDAN, this is proof that “We can really see how our de-bureau- to many people, often outside of the the grant has had a broad impact. cratization of the application process established sporting environments in has led to new people coming and Denmark. That’s the conclusion from DIRECT SUPPORT: A GOOD joining these sporting communities. the Danish Sport Analysis Institute CATALYST We’ve supported everything from (IDAN) in their report ‘Danes’ Street According to the report, the direct ethnic minority youth from less ad- Sports Habits’ from September 2017. support model for local initiatives isn’t vantaged communities to sports en- a threat to organized sports, but rather trepreneurs from outlying areas,” says Organized sports aren’t the only work- a good catalyst for developing lively GAME director Morten Bo Andersen. able model when it comes to getting communities. Danes involved in sporting commu- As more and more children and youth nities, according to the findings from “The survey of actors shows that this are demanding looser organization and IDAN. IDAN evalutated local sports support model is far from being a less elitist sporting communities com- projects that have come about - thanks threat to organized sports. On the con- pared to traditional organized sports, to economic support and counseling trary, sporting organizations combined there may be reason to look further into from the National Platform for Street are the largest actors receiving these how to support the many passionate Sports. projects. The Platform’s support could individuals who are breathing life into be described as a catalyst for develop- some of the initiatives that are simmer- “One of the really central points from ing lively communities under the um- ing in the Danish street community: these supported projects is that the brella of street sports,” according to platform has created an opportunity to IDAN. “Preferably in a way where street support projects and people that have sports become a source of growth that shown themselves most worthy of that The National Platform for Street Sports benefits all sports,” Morten Bo Ander- support at a given time,” says IDAN. is thus creating space for new ideas to sen says. appear in existing organizations. Results for 2014–2017 THE WIDE REACH OF STREET The National Platform for Street SPORTS “In other contexts, you see ‘normal’ Sports supports street sports Back in 2014, the Platform received a sports organizations, like football and initiatives and projects through grant worth 15 million DKK from Nor- basketball clubs, that are looking for four funds: Nuts and Bolts, Street dea-fonden to develop and expand support. Here, you typically see street Sports Day, Capacity, and the Joker street sports in Denmark. According to soccer or street basketball, and some- Pool. In the 2014–2017 period, the evaluation from IDAN, the direct times street handball, which are coming the Platform has supported 374 support model is an opportunity to up as new offshoots of existing sports projects, passionate initiative-ta- reach out to passionate individuals and organizations. So here, you’re seeing a kers, and — through them — those who are active in existing sports reverse example where traditional ball 170,000 street sports participants. environments. games are opened up to new rules, formats, and ways to practice these ac- Forward focus “These evaluations paint a picture that tivities,” according to IDAN. shows how the Platform is helping Nordea-fonden works together a range of activities and facilities AVOIDING OUTDATED with GAME to use street sports to blossom and thrive throughout ACTIVITIES to get more people moving and Denmark. The relatively short path from According to the report, the direct involved in communities. The fund an idea to economic support seems support model can instead be a way to will continue its support for the both manageable and effective,” ac- ensure that money isn’t put into activities Platform over the next three years, cording to one of the conclusions drawn simply because people are used to them. with new measures including a in the report. network for girls’ participation, “This gives space for some activities and a partnership with the Danish Hinnerk is a skater, and a street sports Sports Association and Danish Stre- entrepreneur. He has received microgrants With its grant, the National Platform for to die off, and for new ones to start, from The Platform for Street Sports to start Street Sports has distributed roughly as an alternative to a more bureaucrat- et Sports to more firmly establish networks, build DIY spots and create skate events for children and youth. 10.5 million DKK in support to street ic system where you risk giving ‘saline many street sports initiatives.

22 The good days - are parkour days

Birgitte is the mother of 12-year-old whether the family would be able to Annika, who comes once a week to make time for sports in their weekly train at GAME Copenhagen in Support schedule. But Support on the Asphalt of the Asphalt project. has turned out to be an extremely positive addition to their days. At home, they’ve always described An- nika as ”particularly sensitive”. Annika ”The good days are parkour days. It’s has been examined and diagnosed so positive, enjoyable, and fun. We do with OCD and a combination of other it together, we play, and there’s a good anxiety disorders, but the examination vibe about it all — that’s what makes process took place over a long period such a difference to us,” says Birgitte. of time, during which Annika has experienced difficulties. Now, she takes Support on the Asphalt has become medicine and goes to a regular school, a high priority in the family’s weekly but the family’s day-to-day life is highly schedule, and Birgitte is certain that regimented and busy. That’s why it’s if it hadn’t been for Support on the

Annika and her younger brother have been a part of the Support in Asphalt, which ended 2017 Annika and her younger brother important for Birgitte that Support on Asphalt’s safe framework and professi- SUPPORT ON THE ASPHALT the Asphalt is there to give Annika and onal approach to their target audience, her family support. Annika wouldn’t have been able to Support on the Asphalt is a street sports project for kids and teens ages 7 to 16 who are mentally chal- practice sports regularly. On several lenged. The project’s main goals are to improve participants’ physical health, strengthen social skills, and previous occasions, Annika had bad get them to spend more time being active through specially designed parkour courses. experiences with sports in more esta- blished contexts. The project started in 2015 and ended or more times per week was increased in 2017, the evaluation showed that by 29%. The participants’ weekly time HOURS SPENT ON SPORTS, WEEKLY the other times i’ve ”The other times I’ve gone to sports, a group of less- advantaged children spent on sports was thus brought up to I just had a bad experience. I was shy, 5 and youth were successfully integrat- a level on par with the national average gone to sports, i just really shy, and then I’d think: ’The for Danish children and youth (IDAN ed into positive sporting communities. 4 other children, they’re definitely way The project participants reached an 2016). Participants’ physiological mea- had a bad experience. better than me,’” says Annika. increased level of activity, and had im- surements also showed improvements 3 proved motivation for sports, as well as in physical fitness, jump distance, and i was shy, really shy, Annika’s mom, Birgitte, explains that improved social skills. mobility. 2 and then i’d think: ’the Annika used to be very physically ac- tive. Birgitte has noticed that physical 1 At the beginning and end of the project, PARTICIPANTS EXPERIENCED other children, they’re activity has positive effects, but their all participants filled out a questionnaire IMPROVED MOTIVATION AND previous efforts to get Annika involved 0 N=54 and were interviewed, together with WELL-BEING MEASUREMENT 1 MEASUREMENT 2 definitely way better in sports quickly failed: either the street sports facilitators. The overall The project also contributed to in- approach taken with the children was results are based on the responses from creased motivation among participants than me’ too discipline- and results-focused, or

61 questionnaires. 82 children took part to move and exercise, which has en- PERCENT SELF-RATED HEALTH practices were too chaotic. With Sup- in the project, together with 71 adult couraged them to join sports organiza- port on the Asphalt, neither Annika nor 80 facilitators. tions. At the end of the project, 70% of ”Annika has had a lot of trouble during Birgitte have experienced any worry 70 the children reported that they looked 60 some periods, and at some point we or pressure that could otherwise make PARTICIPANTS DO MORE SPORTS forward to going to practices, and 88% 50 want to reduce the medicine again. things difficult. A central element of the project was reported that they were happy when 40 That’s why I really make sure to give 30 contributing to increased sporting ac- practicing street sports. her as many successful experiences ”Support on the Asphalt doesn’t have 20 tivity among participants, solidified by 10 as possible when she’s feeling good. all these demands. You can join in whe- participation in recreational activities. Self-reported health is a commonly N=56 She’ll always have those to fall back on never you’re ready, and if you need a The time participants spent on sports used measurement of well-being. As MEASUREMENT 1 MEASUREMENT 2 if things get hard again later on,” says break, you just take one,” Annika says each week was measured. Over the shown in the figure, there is a positive Birgitte. before going home with her mom and The project ‘Support on the Asphalt’ was supported by Da - The project health, and was carried fund for promoting nish Health Board’s out in cooperation with the Municipalities of Copenhagen and Movement, and Better Psychiatry. Street Esbjerg, course of this initiative, the proportion development in the proportion of par- younger brother, at the end of a good Average Good/Very Good of participants practicing sports three ticipants who positively evaluated their Initially, Birgitte was worried about practice. health. 24 25 Lebanon: “Looking for a place to dream”

In October 2017, GAME Lebanon According to GAME Lebanon, free launched its ‘Looking for a Place weekly sports activities are one way to to Dream’ campaign, designed stop the rise of obesity, making children to get young people involved in and youth more active. To do that, more finding public spaces for street public spaces for sports need to be es- sports and to put more pressure tablished. on finding places to be active. That’s why the goal of the campaign is There’s a major lack of public spaces to draw attention to the lack of public to play sports in Lebanon, particularly in Beirut, where only 0.5% of the city spaces for sports in Lebanon. Young is public land. This is a minute amount volunteers in GAME Lebanon have in comparison to the 15–20% recom- been involved in developing a series of mended by UN Habitat’s Global Urban initiatives and campaign ideas to reach Observatories Unit. these goals:

BEIRUT’S BUSSES CALL FOR MORE The GAME Dream app (available on SPACE the App Store and Google Play) gives Because of the need for public spaces, users the opportunity to identify spaces GAME Lebanon launched its ‘Looking in the city that they can use for street for a Place to Dream’ campaign, which sports, using their smartphones. They produced a campaign video, motiva- can decorate photos with sports emoji ting bus advertisements, and an app in the app and share them on the cam- that gives Lebanese people an oppor- paign’s Facebook page. The best sug- tunity to identify places they find that gestions are regularly identified and could support street sports. rewarded.

“Public spaces are important to give A campaign video was made with children and youth from different back- female soccer player Mariam Chebab grounds the opportunity to meet. In from the Lebanese national team, using Beirut desperately needs public spaces and facilities. GAME a city like Beirut, where there aren’t humor to illustrate the lack of public views. In addition, Lebanese TV channel Lebanon is working to create better access to suitable locations, to do street sports together for example. This is a many places to be active, many end up spaces in Beirut. It shows her standing Al-Jadeed presented the campaign on spot in Ansar that GAME has managed to refurbish and open GAME around staying home on the sofa, or playing in a packed parking lot, unable to kick a national TV, and GAME’s cooperation in cooperation with the municipality, the Norwegian Refugee Council and PingOut. Now the Playmakers can do open on the side of — or directly in — the ball without hitting a car. with the local government in Beirut practices here every Saturday morning. road. This is really unfortunate, both has been accelerated. GAME Lebanon Photo credit: Aras Issa Alzaidy because of the rise in obesity and the Beirut’s busses were decorated with expects to be able to bring about an the world risk of being hit by a car,” says Ibrahim the text ‘Looking for a Place to Dream’, agreement for a new covered facili- The results from GAME in Denmark and Lebanon, and the need to put young Hourani, head of GAME Lebanon. to increase the campaign’s visibility on ty for street sports that can become a 12 people at the forefront in solving global challenges create a foundation for the street. Large decals were placed new meeting space for youth-led street GAME ZONES establishing GAME in more countries, in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe in Without public spaces to play sports, under the windows to give the appear- sports and volunteer work sometime in coming years. In Somaliland, the GAME Playmaker Program and GAME Zones it’s difficult for Lebanese children and ance that passengers were on their way 2018. will be launched in 2018, together with the local Somaliland National Youth youth to meet as equals, despite dif- to soccer, basketball, dance, and other 3,075 Organization. The activities in Somaliland are supported by the Danish Civil CHILDREN PARTICIPA- ferences in affiliation, ethnicity, and activities. Society Organizations and Save the Children, through the Danish Ministry of TING IN GAME ZONES gender, according to Ibrahim Hourani. Facts about GAME Lebanon Foreign Affairs. This is a problem in a divided society THE CAMPAIGN KICKSTARTS Since 2007, GAME has worked in that continues to suffer from aftershocks DEVELOPMENT Lebanon as an independent Leba- 170 In Jordan, GAME’s activities will launch in 2018, again in cooperation with a of the civil war that tore the country and The campaign has drawn attention to nese NGO. GAME Lebanon trains GAME PLAYMAKERS local organization, the Jordan Youth Innovation Forum. In 2020, Tunisia will created a ‘fear of the other’. the need for public spaces in Lebanon local young role models to lead follow. The Danish-Arab Partnership Program supports activities in Jordan and among local people, journalists and practices in street basketball, street Tunisia. LEBANON FIGHTS OBESITY politicians. soccer, and dance in 12 GAME zo- 23,401 Obesity is becoming more and more of nes, primarily in Beirut and Tripoli. ATTENDANCES In Europe, we’re working with local EU partners to start GAME activities in a problem in Lebanon. If the trend con- At the time of writing, about 2000 The work to establish a facility in Greece, Italy and Malta and Lithuania, beginning in 2019. Erasmus+ Sports tinues, experts predict that three out of people were following the campaign’s Beirut is supported by the supports these activities. ten public school students in Lebanon page on Facebook, and the campaign Festival, ActionAid, and owners of 41% will be severely overweight by 2021. videos have reached nearly 100,000 GAME Denmark’s ’Asphalt Stocks’. GIRLS Keep up on game.ngo 26 27 PRINCE HARRY Prince Harry visited GAME Copenhagen IN last autumn. Volunte- 2017 er Playmakers showed Prince Harry street PICTURES basketball, street soccer, street dance, and parkour. Several of them spoke with the Prince about why they became Play- makers and what that PLAYMAKER CAMP means to the children Every year in Denmark, GAME holds three Playmaker Camps, which are they work with every training weekends for GAME volunteers. Here, young volunteers are taught day. to run practices in their neighborhoods, as street sport instructors or as project leaders. About 100 people take part in each of the three camps. STREET DAY When school is out, GAME holds street days with lots of activities for children and youth. It’s free, and the chil- dren can try their hand at soccer tricks, hip-hop dance, nail art, parkour, street basketball, and street soccer.

STREET GAME TRIPOLI GAME FINALS Four-hundred children and youth from all over Lebanon took Every year, the GAME finals are held at GAME Copenhagen. Here, children from place in the first Street GAME in Tripoli, the second-largest different zones compete in street dance, street basketball, street soccer, and city in Lebanon. The day was filled with music from DJ Ellie, parkour and the prizes are from SPORTMASTER, Faxe Kondi and hummel. Play- dance battles, street basketball, street soccer, and barbecue. makers bring the children they work with every day in their neighborhoods. The Children and youth were transported in from Beirut to par- goal is to get even more children from less advantaged communities involved in ticipate. For many of them, it was their first visit to Tripoli. activities and in the community. Street GAME Tripoli was held in partnership with UN Habitat. STREET SPORTS DAY GAME AT ROSKILDE FESTIVAL Street Sports Day is a yearly In 2017, competition turned into karma event where passionate when the Roskilde Festival, GAME, people from all over the and hummel offered street basketball, BOOKINGS AND CON- NBA STAR IN country invite Danes to try street soccer, beach volleyball, hip-hop, FERENCES AT GAME VOLLSMOSE their hand at street sports. and DJs in the sun in the Festival Area HOUSES The seven-foot-tall (214 cm) The goal is to get more ‘Street City’. In the partnership between GAME Copenhagen, Esbjerg, Karl-Anthony Towns visited children and youth active the Roskilde Festival and hummel, par- Aalborg and Viborg are perfect Vollsmose for the NBA 3X on the streets and perhaps ticipants supported GAME and the fight for holding meetings, con- tournament. The also to come up with new for equality with 50 DKK each time they ferences, events, and work- world-class player chal- ways to get people moving scored a goal in the Orange Karma shops. The uniquely renovated lenged local children to a and active. The National Cup. industrial buildings offer a raw, game of basketball, much to Platform for Street Sports asphalted setting for events. everyone’s excitement. offers support for this event. 28 29 STREET ART WORKSHOP AALBORG In December, eight local artists were invited for a street art workshop at GAME Aalborg. They visited in order to dot the i’s and cross the t’s on the renovation of the industrial building.

STREET GAME FAXE KONDI AT TIVOLI Street GAME is a yearly street festival held in GAME zones. One summer day, the lawn at Tivoli Gardens was transformed All children and youth who are passionate about street into the coolest street sports area. Together with FAXE KONDI, sports and street culture, community, and cool prizes are GAME provided facilities and workshops in soccer tricks, street welcome to be a part of the festivities. Everything takes basketball, parkour, dance, and street art. GAME SOMALILAND LAUNCH In August 2017, Hageisa mayor Abdirah- place under open skies, of course, with asphalt underfoot man Soltelco officially welcomed GAME to and the sun overhead. Somaliland’s capital city. GAME, together with Somaliland’s National Youth Organi- CULTURE-HARBOUR zation, will implement the Youth-led Social This year, GAME put on another huge Streetfestival, turning the Change Through Street Sports project in basketball court at Islands Brygge into a Street Spot. The program three different neighborhoods in the city. included workshops in street basketball, street soccer, Double The goal is to put a stop to rising crime Dutch rope-skipping, street yoga, and various dance styles. in the region, and to motivate girls in the region to be active. FRIDAY JAM The first Friday of every month is Friday Jam at GAME with tournaments in street basket- ball and street soccer. In between, there are dance battles and rap battles, or other fun activities the GAME crew comes up with. Friday Jam is held both in GAME Copenha- gen and Esbjerg, and in 2018, the Aalborg and Viborg GAME Houses will do the same.

SUPPORT ON THE ASPHALT Support on the Asphalt is a three-year project for kids and teens ages 7 to 16 who are mentally challenged. The project’s main goals are to improve participants’ physical activity through specially designed street sports courses. The project, supported by the Danish Health Board’s fund for promoting health, was ended in 2017.

SKATE WORKSHOP VIBORG On a cold November day, the soon-to-launch GAME COPENHAGEN STREET FESTIVAL HEALTHY LUNGS House Viborg opened up for a skate workshop. Here, The Copenhagen Street Festival is a partnership between Together with the Danish Lung Association, GAME has all the city’s residents were invited to come in and lend a lot of different street sports and street culture initiatives focused on good lung function. By creating accessible, a hand in transforming the old, worn-out industrial in the city. It is all about gathering the community and in- flexible, smoke-free street sports environments, GAME in- building. viting a broader public in to try out street a cascade of creases young people’s motivation to live healthy, active, activities. lives without smoking.

30 31 GAME IN NUMBERS 2015 2016 2017 PROPORTION OF GIRLS ATTENDING GAME

INTERNATIONAL 100 258,628 €

80

GOVERNMENT 6% 703,223 € 60

EARNED INCOME 44% 532,325 € 40 41% 17% 38% 32% 30% 31% 29% 28% 25% 25% 20 23% 13% INCOME 4,059,155 € 0 MUNICIPALITIES 766,602 €

FOUNDATIONS DEVELOPMENT IN ATTENDANCE IN GAME 1,798,377 € 19% THOUSANDS 46.805 44% 40 44.329 44.140 42.947

ADMINISTRATION 30 147,056 € 34.442

OTHER ACTIVITIES 211,289 € 20

GAME PLAYMAKER- 23.401 GAME ZONE DK 4% PROGRAM 580,232 € 19.323 GAME ZONE LB 10 15.305

14.382 GAME COPENHAGEN 13.709

5% 11.630 15% 0 GAME ESBJERG PLATFORM FOR STREET SPORTS 819,997 € DEVELOPMENT IN REVENUE IN GAME COSTS 21% 3,962,298 € GAME FACILITIES GAME INTERNATIONAL 1,992,141 € 4,059,155 EUR 211,583 € 2,869,146 EUR 5% 50% 2,297,339 EUR

32 33 Beirut: Shatila GAME AROUND Ansar: Ansar Zefta: Zefta THE WORLD Beirut: Tahwita Beirut: Qasqas

Tripoli: Quobbe

Tripoli: Bab el Ramel Copenhagen: Mjølnerparken, Ragnhildgade & Osramhuset, GAME House CPH Tripoli: Abu Samra : Stjernen & Søndermarkskvarteret Baalback: Baalback

Brøndby: Brøndby Nord Beqaa: Barr Elias

Ishøj: Vejleåparken Beirut: Bourj Hammoud

Hedehusene: Charlotteager Beirut: Bourj el Barajneh

Gladsaxe: Værebroparken

Ballerup: Hedegaarden & Grantoften

Kokkedal: Egedalsvænge

Slagelse: Ringparken

Holbæk: Agervang/Bjergmarken

Næstved: Parkvej

Odense: Vollsmose & Rising

Sønderborg: Stenbjergparken & Søgræsvej

Herning: Holtbjerg & Gullestrup

Aarhus: Reginehøj & Rosenhøj

Aalborg: Grønlands Torv & Øgadekvarteret

Esbjerg: Kvaglund

Kolding: Munkebo Ramtha

Viborg: Ellekonebakken Mafraq

Struer: Ådalen Amman

Varde: Isbjergparken & Lerpøtparken

Hargeisa FINANCIAL STATEMENT BALANCE

2015 2016 2017 2015 2016 2017

INCOME EUR EUR EUR INCOME EUR EUR EUR

Ministries 476,834 577,257 703,223 Inventory 1,936 1,936 6,512

Municipalities 545,335 685,324 766,602 Total receivables 119,904 149,601 185,570

Other local funding 30,267 30,667 24,566 Liquid assets 659,415 996,400 2,246,020

Membership fees and payments 63,212 132,694 74,206 Total current assests 781,256 1,147,937 2,438,102

Event income 56,827 105,919 23,622 TOTAL ASSETS 781,256 1,147,937 2,438,102

Rental income 169,542 140,913 236,203

Sponsors 37,434 77,347 71,049 LIABILITIES

Foundation and grants 882,277 1,057,827 2,057,005 Total equity 210,019 251,277 348,135

Other income 35,609 61,199 102,679 DEBT OBLIGATIONS

TOTAL INCOME 2,297,339 2,869,146 4,059,155 Providers of goods & services 12,133 32,822 2,580

Other debt 91,826 107,867 134,399 EXPENSES Advance payments 467,277 755,971 1,955,569 Personnel 1,039,512 1,410,161 1,544,272 Debt obligationsz 571,236 896,660 2,089,967 Buildings 203,851 202,448 178,124

Miscellaneous activities 186,260 320,322 484,742 TOTAL LIABILITIES 781,256 1,147,937 2,438,102

Playmaker education 66,782 56,421 68,821

GAME zones 27,005 42,653 50,765

Street GAME 77,392 68,619 65,032

GAME Finals 46,649 39,795 52,021

Activities in the Middle East 54,938 12,923 7,615

Street sports facilities 49,177 95,135 652,295

Knowledge sharing 13,209 7,391 4,971

Communication 60,987 48,686 80,056

Funds 307,407 420,183 564,941

Administrative costs 79,379 103,150 208,641

TOTAL EXPENSES 2,212,549 2,827,888 3,962,298

RESULT 84,790 41,258 96,857

36 37 ABOUT GAME THANK YOU!

GAME is a nonprofit organization that Esbjerg’s oldest industrial buildings, works with street sports and street having since undergone a transforma- culture. GAME teaches young people tion from a well-loved, but dilapidated to lead practices in street basketball, Danish State Railway depot to a raw, street sports, street dance, and parkour asphalted facility for street sports and in neighborhoods throughout Denmark, street culture. GAME House Esbjerg as well as in indoor street sports facil- opened in January 2016. ities in Copenhagen, Esbjerg, Viborg, Viborg and Aalborg are the newest and Aalborg. members of the GAME House lineup, GAME also operates in Lebanon, So- with the Vestas building in Viborg and maliland, and Jordan, and is on its Kridtsløjfen in Aalborg being renovated way to Tunisia and other countries in into new street sports indoor facilities. Europe. The two new GAME Houses open early 2018. GAME PLAYMAKERS GAME trains local youth to become GAME AROUND THE WORLD GAME Playmakers. The training pre- Since 2007, GAME has also operated pares young people to lead weekly in Lebanon through an independent practices in street sports and street daughter organization. GAME Lebanon culture events in 33 GAME zones in trains young Playmakers to run street Denmark, and 12 GAME zones in basketball and street soccer in 12 Lebanon. GAME Playmakers also serve GAME zones, in and outside of Beirut. as role models in less advantaged, mar- In Somaliland, GAME is launching ginalized communities. They are an im- three GAME zones in Hargeisa, and in portant part of the social change that Jordan, activities are getting started in GAME works toward. Ramtha, Mafraq, and Amman. In 2017, NGO Advisor ranked GAME GAME HOUSES at number 179 on the list of the world’s In 2010, together with the Municipali- best NGOs. ty of Copenhagen, GAME opened a GAME has its headquarters in Copen- street sports facility in an abandoned hagen. Its highest authority is the yearly Aarhus Kommune God Fritid til Alle Områdefornyelsen Søndermarken railway depot on Enghavevej in Co- general assembly, where its leadership Kommune Helhedsplanen – Os på Sjælør Rappolitics penhagen. Since then, the facility’s ar- is chosen. Bedre Psykiatri Henning Kruses Fond Roskilde Kommune chitecture and social benefits have won BL - Danmarks Almene Boliger Kommune Salus Boligadministration Amba numerous prizes. Today, this facility is a Boligselskabet Baldersbo HipHopHub Sparekassen Nordjyllands Fond headquarter for street sports in Copen- Boligselskabet Boliggården Holbæk Kommune Sundparkhallen Boligselskabet Sjælland Høje- Kommune SSP Næstved hagen. GAME House Esbjerg is one of www.game.ngo Brøndby Kommune Ishøj Kommune Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen Dansk Flygtningehjælp KAB Sundhedsstyrelsen Den Danske Ambassade i Beirut Klubberne i Valby Team Motion DS Elcobyg Lederrådet Viby Syd Kommune Familien Hede Nielses Fond Lejerbo Vesterbro Lokaludvalg Frederiksberg Forenede Boligselskaber Lungeforeningen Værebropark Sekretariat Frederik og Emma Kraghs Mindelegat Marie og M. B. Richters Fond Urban Academy Fritidspuljen Netværkskontoret Fritidspuljen Kommune Næstved Kommune, Frivillighedsudvalget i Struer Center for Kultur og Borgerservice Fællesorganisationens Boligforening Oda og Hans Svenningsens fond Idrætsanlæg Odense Kommune

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