Places People Play: London 2012 mass participation legacy plans

In response to Sport England's mass participation legacy plans for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Places, People and Play has been released. This has brought about a number of new initiatives, programmes and funding opportunities. As highlighted on the Sport England website, below provides detail to the plan:

Places

We will transform the places where people play sport, making the benefits of London 2012 visible in cities, towns and villages across the country by:

  • Upgrading up to a thousand local sports clubs and facilities
  • Investing in a number of iconic multi-sport facilities that set the standards for future facilities development
  • Protecting and improving hundreds of playing fields across the country, preserving high-quality spaces for local people to play and enjoy sport.

These facilities will be the only ones to carry the London 2012 Inspire mark, a permanent celebration of their role in the legacy of the Games.

People

We will inspire people to make sport happen at the local level, embedding the Olympic and Paralympic values in grassroots sport, by:

  • Recruiting, training and deploying 40,000 sports leaders as the next generation of sports volunteers to organise and lead grassroots sporting activities.

Play

We will create the sporting opportunities and challenges that give everyone the chance to become part of the mass participation legacy, through:

  • Gold Challenge - an independent initiative that will motivate over 100,000 adults to test themselves in multiple Olympic and Paralympic sports, and in doing so raise millions of pounds for charity
  • Sportivate - a nationwide campaign that will capture the excitement of sport, providing opportunities for teenagers and young adults to receive six weeks of coaching in the sport of their choice and guiding them into regular participation within their community.

We will be consulting disabled people and those who support them on how we can focus some additional investment - at least £8 million - on tackling the barriers they face when they want to play sport, as well as making sure that every element of this programme works for disabled sportsmen and women too.