Community Games provide a wonderful and unique opportunity for communities from all backgrounds right across the country to come together and celebrate the legacy of the 2012 Games and enable thousands of people to experience and create their own Olympic or Paralympic event.
The Community Games programme will be coordinated through Active Dorset who will provide support and resources for communities to organise their own local sporting and cultural events in celebration of the London 2012 Games.The events could be anything from a netball tournament or a sponsored walk to a live concert, and will reflect the interests and needs of the local community.
Community Games was developed by Legacy Trust UK, a charity whose role is to create lasting impact from the Olympic and Paralympic Games by funding ideas and local talent to inspire creativity across the UK.The Community Games programme will provide support and resources which includes a national accredited training and mentoring programme, designed to create a lasting legacy of community volunteers with the skills and confidence to activate social change.
Local people will have the opportunity to get involved in Community Games in a number of different ways. They could become a Community Games organiser responsible for developing and implementing a Community Games event, they could volunteer to help out at an event, they could participate in the events activities, or they could just simply come along, have fun and enjoy the event as a spectator with friends and family.
Sign up now for Community Games and bring London 2012 to your neighbourhood.
Need More Information About Community Games?
Website: www.communitygames.org.uk
Contact Chris Skinner: Community Games Coordinator
Tel: 01305 228580 (Office)
07867 658 882 (Mobile)
Email: C.Skinner@dorsetcc.gcsx.gov.uk
