Budget King’s Day

It’s party time in Doetinchem the entire weekend of King’s Day. On Saturday 26 April 2025, Doetinchem will be the vibrant centre of the Netherlands. The King, his family and members of the Royal family will celebrate King’s Day in Doetinchem. King’s Day is a fun and unifying celebration in Doetinchem every year. We look forward to showing our beautiful city, the region and the province to the Royal family, to all visitors and to the whole of the Netherlands together with the residents. We will do this in an attractive programme.

The municipality of Doetinchem has a budget of €3 million for the preparations and implementation of this programme. The municipality contributes over €1.7 million, the contribution of the province of Gelderland is provided for €1 million and the contribution of the Achterhoek region is approximately €300,000. We believe that the budget for this programme and for a municipality of this size is realistic. The Court has also pointed out the importance of cost awareness from the start of this process.

In addition to the costs for the program, we also incur costs for communication so that all residents and visitors know what is going on. And also costs for closing off streets and deploying traffic controllers to safely receive huge groups of people. The costs are also offset by revenues. All purchasing is done locally, in the Achterhoek and in Gelderland, so that the costs we incur end up in our own region. Furthermore, when purchasing materials, we look at sustainability and the possibilities for reusing items. But above all, we want to offer a beautiful, festive and appropriate program in which we show the many faces of the region.