Background
Published on: 22nd August 2011
THE SPORT MAKERS PROGRAMME IS PART OF THE PEOPLE STRAND OF SPORT ENGLAND'S MASS PARTICIPATION LEGACY PROGRAMME PLACES PEOPLE PLAY WHICH WAS ANNOUNCED ON MONDAY 15TH NOVEMBER.
This project will use the inspirational pull of London 2012 to recruit, train and deploy 40,000 new sports volunteers nationally aged 16 years and over to make sport happen across the country. Volunteers will have a positive and inspiring introduction to the world of sport volunteering via a series of workshops delivered locally by a training provider and in conjunction with West Yorkshire Sport. We anticipate that many will continue to give of their time, further increasing sport participation long after the 2012 Games are held in the UK.
These Sport Makers will organise and support hundreds of thousands of new hours of grassroots sport, creating new opportunities across the country. The Sport Makers will bring the Olympic and Paralympic values to life in every community and will be a highly tangible element of the London 2012 legacy.
What will we achieve:
- 1709 Sport Makers volunteering in West Yorkshire
- Olympic and Paralympic values will be brought to life for the Sport Makers through their orientation workshop so that they feel part of the Olympic movement
- Sport Makers will be fully inclusive and target participants who have a disability, both males and females and participants from BME groups.
As a result of their involvement thousands of new opportunities for adults to participate will be created.
Role of West Yorkshire Sport
WYS is critical to the success of Sport Makers because they will be pulling together the work of various agencies and will be responsible for the delivery of the programme. We will perform the following roles:
- Identify, recruit and register potential volunteers;
- Develop a menu of Sport Makers volunteer opportunities, brokered with National Governing Bodies, Clubs and Community Organisations involved in sports participation;
- Organise a programme of inspirational workshops for the potential Sport Makers (the content and delivery of these will be supplied by an external training provider under a separate contract with Sport England);
- Match and support Sport Makers into volunteer placements.
Key partners include:
BOA, LOCOG NGBs, CSPs, Local Authority Sports Development teams, other local government partners and other national and county/sub-regional voluntary partners.
The national picture
Sport England's Sport Makers and NGB plans page
