Favourite places for everyone
Apply for funding to remove barriers: Let your offer become one of the "favourite places for everyone"
Funding for the removal of barriers is once again available for 2018 - 177,700 euros for Chemnitz. The programme provides funding for up to 100 percent of the costs if the project does not cost more than 25,000 euros.
Not everyone is able to use every restaurant, go to the cinema without restrictions, visit a museum or actively participate in sports at a club. Many of these facilities are not accessible or fully usable for wheelchair users. Information for the hearing and visually impaired, as well as people with learning difficulties, is not comprehensible.
With this knowledge, the Free State of Saxony launched the accessibility investment programme for the first time in 2014 under the motto "Favourite places for everyone" with a total funding amount of
2.5 million euros in total. It is intended to make access easier for people with disabilities and turn exemplary facilities into their favourite places.
The programme is aimed at cultural, leisure and educational facilities, as well as healthcare facilities such as doctors' surgeries and therapy rooms. The aim of the programme is to remove barriers in areas where those responsible either do not have the money or where the investment does not pay off. In addition to non-profit initiatives, tradespeople are also eligible.
Applications will be accepted until 1 December 2017.
Forms and further information can be obtained from the Social Welfare Office, Department for Assistance for the Elderly and Disabled/Local Care Authority.