A to Z of Projects

Two new documents are now available on the South East Partnership website to aid partners with their PR and Comms requirements around projects and events.

The Event/Project Template has been designed to facilitate the recording of upcoming 2012 activities. Completion of the document will provide LOCOG with the information required for Games time resilience, and enable Perfect Motion Sports Marketing to support your PR and Comms requirements.

The South East Games Time Event Calendar is the beginning of a record of all 2012 Games time activities within the South East, with data taken from the Torch Relay Questionnaire documents submitted in the spring of 2010. Completion of the 2012 activities document will ensure that this is a valuable resource for resilience planning as we approach 2012, and that events and projects receive appropriate PR assistance.

If you wish to highlight any events or projects to Perfect Motion, or add information to the resilience record of Games time events, please send a completed event/project template to  BeckyRussell@seeda.co.uk

South East Games Time Events Calendar

London 2012 Projects and Programmes

Adizones - adidas is a tier one sponsor of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. adidas has announced the creation of giant multi-sport outdoor venues called ‘adiZones’ has part of a £1m legacy initiative to support the brand’s domestic top-tier sponsorship of the London 2012 Olympics.  Within the South East, adizones can be found in Gravesend and Southampton.

Compete For - CompeteFor is the vehicle through which London 2012 publish Games-related contracting and supplier opportunities.

Cultural Olympiad - Inspired by the founder of the modern Olympic movement, Pierre de Coubertin’s idea of a marriage of sport and the arts, the Cultural Olympiad is designed to celebrate Olympic and Paralympic values in the cultural field. The London 2012 Cultural Olympiad is a four year celebration designed to encourage the widest range of people across the whole of the UK to get involved in the London 2012 Games.

Discovering Places - Part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Everybody has hidden gems on their doorstep but few of us have discovered them or the stories they have to tell. Discovering Places aims to change that.

Get Set -‘Get Set’ is the official London 2012 education programme, which involves children and young people (ages 3 to 19) in the excitement and inspiration of the Games.

Personal Best - is an exciting national Level 1 pre-employment programme in preparation for event volunteering designed to help participants who are disadvantaged in the labour market to progress to employment, further training and volunteering, with the opportunity of a guaranteed interview to become a London 2012 Games Time Volunteer.

Inspire Programme- The Inspire programme will help to deliver a core strand of London 2012’s commitment to deliver Games for Everyone.  The programmes enables non-commercial organisations to link events and projects genuinely inspired by the coming of the London 2012 Games.

Open Weekend - Thousands of people enjoyed the chance to do something different, to try something new, inspired by London 2012.

Volunteering - The London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games aims to be the best ever Games. Central to the realisation of this ambition is the delivery of the best ever volunteering programme.

Other national, regional and local projects

Accentuate Projects - One vision, 15 projects, 1000 days to make a cultural shift. Inspired by the values and achievements of the Paralympics, which was founded in the South East of England; Accentuate will deliver transformational, cross-sector projects.

Access Audits - Through Accentuate funding Tourism South East are able to offer access audits and “Welcome All” training at extremely competitive rates, to destinations that would like to find out how to improve the facilities they offer to their disabled visitors. 

Area Action Plans - The South East has specific geographical areas that have been identified that could benefit particularly during the period of the Games. Action plans have been created for each area to attain the maximum benefit from the Games.

Business Support - There is a variety of support and information for businesses interested in getting involved and benefiting from London 2012.

Community Sport Volunteers - Step into Sport is an integral programme of the Leadership and Volunteering workstrand of the PE and Sport Strategy for Young People.  The ultimate aim is to increase the quantity, quality and diversity of young people engaged in volunteering and leadership, with consequent benefits to schools, clubs, the community and the young people themselves.

Create, Compete, Collaborate Projects - Create Compete Collaborate (CCC) is a groundbreaking ambition, which aims to ensure that every young person in the South East has the opportunity to participate in a project with another young person from a competitor country between now and 2012.

Creative Campus - Creative Campus is a joint higher education institutions’ initiative in the South East to showcase creative and performing arts. By bringing cultural diversity to the forefront of the project, the initiative aims to create a lasting legacy social, economical and cultural collaboration prior to the 2012 Games.

Global Image Awareness Campaign - This will deliver an increased awareness of the South East in both domestic and overseas markets, targeting both consumers and trade. It will increase business investment in the South East and boost the economy.

GO-Learn Community Toolkit - GO-Learn is the name of ‘Golden Opportunities to Learn’, a non-prescriptive toolkit designed to allow organisations to harness the interest generated by the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in attracting adults and young people into learning, volunteering and work.

Healthy Workplaces - It makes economic sense for companies to have a healthy workforce. Recruitment and retention improve, absences and workplace stress reduce. The South East Partnership is encouraging companies in the region to use the stimulus of the 2012 Games to encourage their workforce to become more active.

Olympic Standard Customer Care - The ‘Hosting the World’ programme has been developed to encourage businesses to improve customer service, business skills and profitability in preparation for 2012.

PreGames Training Camps & Major Sporting Events - The promotion of the region as a base for major sporting events as well as training camps for the Olympic and Paralympic teams is a big priority for the South East.

Skills Broker Toolkit - This toolkit provides an information resource for brokers and advisors to enable them to support businesses with advice and guidance about the London 2012 Games.

Sport Unlimited - Sport Unlimited is an innovative new youth sports programme which cascades funding to local communities via the county sports partnerships network.

Step into Sport - Step into Sport focuses on young people aged 14 to 19 years and has been set up to provide a pathway of leadership and volunteering. It aims to train, support and deploy young people and adults into appropriate, safe and rewarding sports leadership and volunteering activity.

WorldSkills 2011 - In October 2011, the UK will host WorldSkills London 2011; the largest vocational skills competition in the world. 1,200 competitors from 60 nations will compete in 40 vocational skills in a battle to win gold, silver and bronze medals.