AO1 DCMS places, people, play

Partnership

Places People Play will be delivered by Sport England which will be in partnership with the British Olympic Association (BOA) and the British Paralympic Association (BPA). Sport England will also have the backing of The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG).

Funding

There has been a £135 million budget made possible by the Government’s National Lottery reforms, which will be bringing additional funding into grassroots sport. This will hopefully increase the amount of children playing grass root sports and will increase the quality of the facilities and the coaches teaching the sports.

Sport England will also be consulting disabled people and those who support them on how Sport England can find 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. This will encourage disabled people and women to play more sport and will also help the sporting industry to discover what is stopping people from participating in sports and help them develop ways to get them involved 

Detailed Sections

Places

  The places where people play sport will be transformed, which will make 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.

People

They aim to 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 Sport Makers as the next generation of sports volunteers to organise and lead grassroots sporting activities.

Play

They 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.

http://www.sportengland.org/media_centre/press_releases/places_people_play.aspx