This report evaluates the Spor10 project, which was a social and health-promoting initiative implemented in Jernbanebyen from December 2024 to September 2025. The project aimed to engage families with children from disadvantaged and public housing areas in activities that promote well-being, movement and social cohesion. Spor10 functioned as a temporary activity and cultural center, where community-oriented and movement-based activities were combined with digital incentives via the Civic Dollars app. The evaluation is based on qualitative methods, including participant observations, semi-structured interviews and logbook notes. The results show that participation among families in vulnerable life situations largely depends on safe and recognizable frameworks, stable relationships and a clear structure. Children's engagement served as an important driving force for parental participation, while volunteers and local role models – including neighborhood mothers and solo mothers – contributed to breaking down linguistic, social and cultural barriers.

We are proud to have initiated the Cities Changing Diabetes
program in five cities in 2014, which quickly grew into a global movement with more than 300 partners working across 47 cities. With over 100 actions taken to improve health outcomes for urban communities, the program has shown that meaningful change can indeed be achieved through multi-sector collaboration. Building on our legacy and the lessons learned across the last 10 years, we are thrilled to announce the next phase of our programme, rebranded as Cities for Better Health. We have gained a solid understanding of the factors behind the surge in the number of people living with chronic diseases in cities, thanks to our first decade of research, piloting and scaling interventions that promote better urban health. But it remains critical to engage cities and mayors to challenge the status quo and work towards a common goal of improving health and tackling inequities.

This report presents the results from a resident survey of social capital in Tingbjerg and Utterslevhuse in north-west Copenhagen. The survey was conducted in the spring of 2022. Data was collected through a household-based questionnaire survey. All 2567 households in Tingbjerg and Utterslevhuse were visited by data collectors. The results are based on responses from 449 adult residents in 417 households. The survey shows that the participants generally feel a high degree of attachment to Tingbjerg, as well as joy and security in living in the residential area, but also that they rarely participate in informal social communities or in more formal groupings and organized initiatives in the housing area, including housing social activities and events. A strengthening of the social capital in Tingbjerg will thus have to focus on the residents' participation in the local communities and activities, rather than their satisfaction and joy in living in the residential area. The survey participants particularly called for more local sports activities, food activities, music and cultural activities, as well as children's and youth activities.

This collection of experiences on the implementation of questionnaire surveys in the intersection between children as respondents, initiatives in vulnerable residential areas, and nature-based activities have been created as part of a collaboration between Save the Children's project "Nature Clubs" and the Center for Children and Nature.  In 2018, Save the Children launched "the Nature Clubs initiative". The initiative was a continuation of experiences from Save the Children's nature-social initiative "Out of the housing block - into nature". The purpose of Nature Clubs is to offer children from 
vulnerable residential areas a club with a special focus on nature. In Nature Clubs, children and volunteers participate weekly (or every other week) in nature and outdoor activities, and approx. once a month, the children's families are invited to the activities. A nature club is run in close partnership with a local housing social initiative, which, among other things, is responsible for recruiting children to the club. The purpose of the Nature Clubs is for the children to make new friends and skills, as well as gain better knowledge of the green leisure life in the local area, including the many good experiences you can have together in nature.

The purpose of this handbook is to give municipal decision-makers, planners and consultants an insight into how municipalities can work with local communities as a health-promoting arena. Since 2011, we have worked with local community initiatives in a municipality and a housing social comprehensive plan respectively, and along the way have picked up experience, theory and learning from different places, but never found the handbook that we ourselves wish we had had when we started. A handbook that describes how municipalities can work with local community initiatives, and how some already do it. We hope that this handbook will inspire other municipalities to work locally and implement a smarter process in municipalities doing their practice.

Integrated efforts to promote health among families with children in selected local communities on Bornholm and in Odsherred (2012-2015). The project intended to create lasting behavioral changes in the families' shopping, diet and exercise habits, as well as to strengthen the families' children's social commitment and well-being in the local community. The idea was to develop and evaluate health-promoting interventions that were meaningful and relevant to the target group, and at the same time involved the various arenas in the local community, where the family moves in everyday life. This was an important starting point for being able to build a coordinated and integrated effort that respects the many challenges and tasks of everyday life. This is also the starting point for the Supersetting approach, which was developed and tested in the SoL Project.