Mayor's Skills Legacy Programme
As part of the Mayor’s key election promises, the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games must deliver a genuine grass-roots sporting legacy of increased participation in sport and physical activity amongst Londoners. His sports legacy plan, A Sporting Future for London, sets out the priorities for meeting this promise.
So far, in excess of £1million has been spent, with a further £15million to be invested by 2012. With matched funding, this will see a total in excess of £30 million invested in grass-roots sport by the time of the Olympic opening ceremony.
To deliver this vision the right people, with the right skills and qualifications must be in place.
Led by the National Skills Academy for Sport and Active Leisure the funding will be used to deliver a training and development investment programme that will build the capacity and skills of Londoners working and volunteering in the sports sector.
The programme of activity includes:
Support the growth and sustainability of local sports clubs
- Recruit new sports coaches and officials
- Upskill existing sports coaches and officials
- Up skill sports club operational staff.
Increase the number of Londoners volunteering in sport
- Help local sports clubs to identify volunteer opportunities
- Help local volunteer centres to promote sports clubs volunteer vacancies
- Recruit participants from sports clubs to complete volunteer managers training
- Target under represented groups as sports volunteers.
Recruit, retain and upskill the workforce (both voluntary and paid)
- Upskill both paid and unpaid employees in management, supervisory and leadership skills
- Upskill both paid and unpaid employees in customer service skills
- Recruit and upskill health 'activators'
- Upskill employees to enable them to work more effectively with people with a disability
- Recruit more people with disabilities into the sector in either a voluntary or paid capacity.
The funding for the Mayor's Legacy Programme will be divided into six key strands of focused activity to meet the project's aims. To read more about these strands and what will be eligible for funding follow this link.
These six strands of activity are:
To find out more about the programme and how you can get involved email: mayorslegacy@sportactivensa.co.uk or call 020 7632 2000 and ask to be put through to the legacy team.