The Inspire Programme

The Inspire Programme

The Inspire Programme

The Inspire programme recognises exceptional Games-inspired non-commercial projects and events taking place across the UK. It is a once in a lifetime opportunity for organisations in the Northwest to be part of the London 2012 Games.

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Case Studies

Opportunity Kicks

SPORT / JAN 2012 - Our 250th Northwest Inspire Project - Opportunity Kicks was launched in Manchester with the Sectretary of State for DWP Iain Duncan-Smith.

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All About Us

CULTURE / SEP2011 - This innovative project will set up digital hubs in all 10 Greater Manchester boroughs to offer accessibility and participation in the Cultural Olympiad to a wider constituency

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Nowt 2 Do

SPORT / JULY 2011 Now 2 Do is a project lead by Greater Manchester Police to give young people the opportunity to take part in activities in their local areas.

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Cycloan

YOUNG PEOPLE/AUGUST 2011 - Cycloan is an innovative youth justice payback project working with youth offenders carrying out reparation (payback)

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WDP Wizards Wheelchair Basketball Development Sessions

SPORT/AUGUST 2011 - Inspired by the popular Paralympic Sport a new wheelchair basketball development project which is open to all disabled children in Warrington has been developed

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Disability Multi Sports

SPORT/AUGUST 2011 - The project will offer a structured sporting programme for a variety of individuals with impairments and disabilities

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Raising the Bar

SPORT/AUGUST 2011 - Talented local athletes are being supported by helping them to enhance their training regimes’ and offering free or vastly subsidised access to the leisure training centres in the area.

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Active Generation

SPORT/AUGUST 2011 - Our project will develop activities for older people and encourage them to be inspired by events and activities that are provided to lead healthier lifestyles. These activities will include Olympic sports such as Tennis, Archery, Swimm

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Sportivate Merseyside

SPORT/AUGUST 2011 - Sportivate incorporates a range of activities including Athletics, Badminton, Basketball and Canoeing, Dance, Golf, Handball, Orienteering, Rugby

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Sportivate Lancashire

SPORT/AUGUST 2011 - Sportivate Lancashire will focus on providing 6 to 8 week sports programmes for young people aged between 14 and 25.

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Games in the Park

SPORT/AUGUST 2011 - Lancaster City Council aim to develop a “Games in the Park” event inspired by the London 2012.

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Swim Stockport

SPORT/AUGUST 2011 - Stockport Sports Trust and swimming lesson programme have identified three aquatic initiatives, inspired by London 2012.

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Discover your Local Library and Get Inspired!

SPORT/AUGUST 2011 - ‘Discover your Local Library and Get Inspired’ project is inspired by the London 2012 Games to use library spaces to host a wide range and variety of different social, fun and family engaging activities that will have London 2012 inspi

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Face to Face with Sports Science

EDUCATION/JUNE 2011 - Allowing students to come face to face with sports science, exposing them to key scientific and technological developments in sports and exercise science.

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Bury Health Walks

SPORT/AUGUST 2011 - Allowing residents to take part in local led walks across Bury

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NHS Challenge Cheshire West

HEALTH/AUGUST 2011 - NHS Challenge Cheshire West plan to encourage people into various sports through weekly sessions

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NHS Challenge Walton Centre

HEALTH/JUNE 2011 - Sporting facilities for the public

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20 Activities 12 Days

SPORT/AUGUST 2011 - Encouraging people to take part in 20 different sports across 12 days

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ClubBURY Be Part of It

SPORT/AUGUST 2011 - Allowing members of the community to take part in Olympic and Paralympic sports

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NHS CHALLENGE - Blackpool Community Health Services

HEALTH / MAY 2011 - accessible sports for our staff of all physical abilities and ages

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North West Children’s Activity Challenge

HEALTH / JUNE 2011 This is a joint Health and Education initiative that has been developed to leave a lasting health and wellbeing legacy for young people, schools and their local communities.

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Goal den girls

SPORT/MARCH 11 The Olympic and Paralympic Games have been the inspiration of our running project for our group of inspirational women to complete a marathon in 2012.

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NHS CHALLENGE - INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE

HEALTH / 2011 - All Northwest NHS organisations are encouraged to become involved in the NHS Challenge, A WORKPLACE BASED SPORT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY PROGRAMME:

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NHS CHALLENGE- UHSM

HEALTH/MARCH 11 - supporting as many staff as possible to engage in some form of physical activity

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NHS CHALLENGE- Trafford

HEALTH/MARCH 11 Touch Rugby League coaching sessions run in conjunction with RFL and V involve charity. This is a multi-agency initiative run in partnership with our local partner agencies, Trafford Council, Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust, NHS Trafford.

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NHS CHALLENGE - Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation

HEALTH / MAY 2011 - supporting as many staff as possible to engage in some form of physical activity

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NHS CHALLENGE - Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

HEALTH / MAY 2011 - This pioneering campaign, inspired by the countdown to London 2012, will take place at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust as part of its commitment to the health and wellbeing of its staff.

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NHS CHALLENGE - 5 boroughs partnership

HEALTH / MAY 2011 supporting as many staff as possible to engage in some form of physical activity

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FIREFIT - Lancashire

SPORT / MARCH 2011 The project is based on brand new activity taking place in our portalable soccer cages & climbing walls across Lancashire.

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FIREFIT: Cumbria

SPORT / FEB 2011 The project will use two portable sports arenas to provide a range of diversionary sporting opportunities to young people in Cumbria.

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FIREFIT - Cheshire

SPORT / MARCH 2011 The Firefit programme involves fire fighters and our Targeted Youth Support Workers using their unique role within society as a way to engage with disaffected young people from underprivileged back grounds aged 13 to 16.

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FIREFIT - Merseyside

SPORT/ OCT 2009 The FIREFIT UK Programme involves firefighters and volunteers using their unique role in society to lead and engage communities through a variety of sporting and cultural initiatives targeted at those people least likely to be involved in

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Search for a Gold Star

SPORT - APRIL 2011 an inspirational project programmed for August 2012 to inspire young people to take up golf.

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Willaston Games

May 2011 - A major village festival is being planned and organised by Willaston Village Festival Society to take place from 15th – 17th June 2012.

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Golf Roots Road to the Open

Sport/April 2011 - The project will allow PGA professionals to deliver golf activity in schools and provide opportunities at the club prior to the Open and leave a lasting legacy so schools and clubs can continue to build their relationship.

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The Reporters Academy Inspired!

Young People/ April 11 - The Reporter’s Academy is an international Not For Profit Media Production Company, run by young people.

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SPAA Performance Development for club BURY Athletes

Sport/April 11 -Sport - The talented young athlete training programme aims to ensure that clubBURY athletes aged 14-17 have access to high performance strength and conditioning.

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St Helens Sports Festival

Sport/April 11 - Ruskin Drive sports grounds will be transformed to host the first ever St Helens Sports Festival 2011.

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Destination 500

Volunteering/April 11 - The project is a volunteering challenge.

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Games in the park

Sport/April 11 - Lancaster City Council aim to develop a “Games in the Park” event inspired by the London 2012.

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Motivate8 Wirral

SPORT/ APR 2010 A series of 2012 inspired local events.

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Going 4 Gold

SPORT/MARCH 11 The project will run 12 challenges in the lead up to 2012 that will encourage staff in Bury to become more active. The organisations that will be involved are; Bury Council, NHS Bury, Pennine Acute Trust, and Greater Manchester Police.

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Inspiring Cycling Sundays

SPORT/MARCH 11 The project will be a series of 12 (once a month) community cycle rides aimed at beginner level in a local park.

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STRIDE 11

SPORT/FEB11 Stride is an established dance performance opportunity in our area which is coordinated jointly by three organisations: Vale Royal School Sport Partnership (VRSSP), Cheshire Dance (CD) & Cheshire West & Chester Council (CW&C).

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Paddlers for Life

HEALTH/NOV 2010 Paddlers for Life were set up to provide support to men, women and their families after they have had treatment for breast cancer

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GYM FEST NORTH WEST

SPOR/ NOV 10 The aim is to set up a Gymnastics Festival to be held in Manchester on the 20th March 2011.

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16-23 Badminton Bonanza

SPORT/FEB11 Members of the Badminton North West Youth Forum. The main aim of the forum is to engage more 16-24 year olds within the sport of badminton in the lead up to the 2012 Games. The Youth Forum will then stage a one day badminton event.

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Shelly Woods Inspire Project

SPORT/ NOV 2010 In the build up to our annual Blackpool Youth Games, with over 40 events, we as a School Sport Partnership are using Paralympian Shelly Woods to inspire local children during school assemblies.

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Sunsport

Sunsport is a holiday programme providing sporting opportunities for young people with disabilities.

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SportForce: Meet the Sports Scientist

The purpose of Meet the Sports Scientist is to expose the public and potential young scientists to key scientific and technological developments in a hands-on and accessible manner.

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Legacy Youth Action

The Legacy Youth Action Programme targets young disabled people between 11- 16 years of age, with the objective to integrate them into a programme of activity with none disabled peers.

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Chant and Cheer 500 days to go!

The chant and cheer will include words on the sports, countries and themes that are involved in the Games.

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Ambassadors for the Future

Ambassadors for the Future is an inspirational project that raises the aspirations of hard to reach young people across Lancashire. Almost 1000 young people aged 14 to 19 who are, or at risk of NEET have found new confidence and motivation through partici

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YOUNG CLUB AMBASSADORS SCHEME

SPORT/ DEC 2010 A team of young girls from within the Club have been identified to become part of the Club’s 2012 inspired ‘young club ambassador scheme’.

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Burnley Rising Star Ambassador Scheme

Burnley Council’s Sport & Play Development are to launch a Rising Star Ambassador Scheme for the borough. Talented young athletes will act at role models for programme of sporting activities that will take place over the established borough holiday progra

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Visible Dance

CULTURE/ DEC 2010 Visible Dance will enable adults with learning disabilities to participate in weekly creative dance led by a professional artist.

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Fit N Fun Club

HEALTH/ SEPT 2010 Knowsley NHS and Knowsley MBC will develop a unique co-ordinated approach in engaging and targeting in active children and families using the power of 2012 to inspire and increase participation in sport and physical activity long term.

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Aspire 2012

Young Addaction Aspire 2012 is a new and innovative programme of group-based activities designed to make substance misuse treatment for young people more effective by building personal and social skills.

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Elite Athlete Programme

SPORT/ OCT 2010 The Liverpool City Region 2012 Elite Athlete Programme is aimed at supporting and profiling elite athletes from the Merseyside area to inspire others to take part in sport and physical activity.

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High Tide: The Water's Edge

CULTURE/ JULY 2010 High Tide is an environmental art initiative involving the public taking a photograph of their local environment for compilation into a visual story of activity and actions at the Water’s Edge on Summer Solistice Day.

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20-12 Open Day

SPORT/ NOV 2010 Inspired by the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games Liverpool City Councill will be opening its doors to local residents to try out activities with their friends and family for free on the 20th of December (20/12).

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Cumbria Volunteer Pathway

SPORT/ JUL 2010 A brand new Volunteering pathway for the people of Cumbria.

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Afro Reggae in Liverpool 2010

CULTURE/ JUL 2010 The over-arching purpose of this project is to make positive social change in areas of Liverpool which currently experience high levels of social and health inequality and, in which, there is peer pressure for young people to get involv

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The Balloons Project

EDUCATION/ OCT 2010 The Balloons Project is a free, motivational and educational experience for young people. The aim of the Project is to inspire the students to achieve and be the best they can be – through the creative and performing arts.

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Sport Unlimited Manchester

SPORT/ JUL 2010 The Sport Unlimited programme aims to get 900,000 young people taking part in its activities nationally by March 2011. It is an integral part of the Government’s 5 hour sports offer for Children and Young People.

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Cultural Olympiad Launch - North West - 26-28 September 2008

The North West celebrated the launch of the Cultural Olympiad with over 30 events held during the London 2012 Open Weekend on 26 - 28 September 2008.

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Altogether Now

HEALTH/ JUN 2010 Directly inspired by the Olympic Games, NHS Blackpool has developed a programme of initiatives aimed at linking physical activity to the health agenda

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Manchester Future Leaders

Over a 12 month period the volunteers will learn how a committee runs through the set up and constitution of the young leaders group.

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on your marks....

EDUCATION/ JUL 2010 Macclesfield SSP aims to raise the profile of London 2012 and inspire all people - young and old- to become a) more active b) engaged in London 2012 c) aware of the Olympic and Paralympic Values.

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SPLAT

SPORT/ NOV 2009 The S.P.L.A.T. (Sports Participation, Leadership and Attendance Targets) scheme aims to encourage ‘semi-sporty’ and ‘non-sporty’ type to children to increase their participation in sport and physical activity over the longer term.

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Sport Unlimited: Cheshire

SPORT/ APR 2010 Sport Unlimited is an innovative youth sports programme which cascades funding to local communities via the county sports partnerships network.

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Something to chew on

EDUCATION/ JAN 2010 Improve young peoples’ understanding of what constitutes healthy eating and a healthy diet, as well as increasing young people’s knowledge of food safety.

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Little Mersey Ladyfest 2010

Project Idea: I want to organise a one day Ladyfest on Merseyside, offering workshops in skills such as bicycle maintenance and arts workshops, with an evening of female centred music from local bands and also a headline artist who shares in these values.

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Running Rings

SUSTAINABILITY/ JUL 2010 Bring the opportunity for those in The Mersey Forest Area inspired by London 2012 to get involved, with opportunities right on their doorstep, in a project that celebrates the return of the Olympics to the UK after 64 years.

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Moving back the boundary

VOLUNTEERING/ JUL 2010 8 volunteers are recruited then mentored through a skills development programme where they will gain experience, guidance and a qualification in coaching cricket. The volunteers will plan and deliver coaching sessions.

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Sport 4 all

VOLUNTEERING/ JUL 2010 The project will encourage children and young people to participate in physical activities and be more aware of the need to exercise regularly and eat healthily.

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IAO Community Fun Sports Week

VOLUNTEERING/ JULY 2010 This project aims to bring in all the diverse cultures around the Indian Association Oldham together, we are hoping this will encourage youths to participate in the project giving them the advantage of meeting new friends.

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Sport Unlimited: Merseyside

SPORT/ MAY 2010 The Sport Unlimited work strand is an integral part of the Government’s 5 Hour Sports Offer for Children and Young People that will provide a range of attractive and sustainable opportunities in sporting activities for young people.

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St Matthew's Trampolining Club

VOLUNTEERING/ JUL 2010 This project funded by V cash point is a weekly 2 hour trampolining session to engage young people in hard to reach areas.

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Active Blackburn

VOLUNTEERING/ JUL 2010 This project funded by V Cash Point is being lead by young people from Blackburn

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Sport Unlimited Cumbria

SPORT/ MAR 2010 Sport Unlimited is an innovative youth sports programme which cascades funding to local communities via the county sports partnerships network.

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Sport Unlimited: Lancashire

SPORT/ JUN 2010 Sport Unlimited is an innovative youth sports programme which cascades funding to local communities via the county sports partnerships network.

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Free Swimming

The free swimming programme provides children under the age of 16 and adults over the age of 60 with free swimming opportunities in their local swimming pool

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Active Sports

SPORT/ JAN 2010 Active Sports is Sefton Councils new branding for Sports Development Programme that will incorporate a number of Initiatives.

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Personal Best

VOLUNTEERING/ APR 2010 The Personal Best (PB) North West Project is the regional delivery of the pre-employment programme Level 1 Award in Preparation for Event Volunteering (Personal Best) to 384 learners via a minimum of 40 community based programmes.

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Cumbria Talented Athlete Ambassadors

SPORT/ APR 2010 The CTA Ambassadors Programme is aimed at maximising the status of Cumbria’s Talented Athletes. Each year running up to 2012 5 athletes are chosen as Ambassadors having being identified as performing at national or international level.

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Wirral Swim

SPORT/ APR 2010 The aim being to provide the pathway for junior swimmers to taste and experience more developed level of participation leading towards competitive swimming.

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Interfaith Games

SPORT/ MAY 2010 This project is called the Interfaith Project and is based on the provision of sporting activities for people from various communities within the town of Bury.

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Tameside Volunteer Festival

VOLUNTEERING/ MAY 2010 The volunteers will plan, organise and deliver the event with guidance and support from the Tameside Volunteer Development Officer.

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Handball Programme

VOLUNTEERING/ DEC 2009 The project will establish handball as an Olympic Legacy Sport in the Warrington School Sports Partnership.

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Haltons Sporting Excellence Programme

SPORT/ DEC 2009 Haltons Sporting Excellence Programme

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Motive8

SPORT/ JAN 2010 Motive8 is a 2012 inspired festival of sport mainly aimed at people with a disability. It will run on annual basis from 2010 through until 2012 led by the Sport and Physical Activity Alliance (SPAA).

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Festival of Sport

SPORT/ JAN 2010 The Festival of Sport will take place 3 times a year at 3 different venues across the borough of Tameside led by the Sport and Physical Activity Alliance (SPAA).

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Girls Football Programme

SPORT/ JAN 2010 Each and every girl that is selected for our Centre of Excellence will follow our Girls Development Programme. This will be tailored to each player’s individual needs. They will train twice a week and compete in fixtures every weekend.

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EATS

SPORT/ JAN 2010 The Elite Athlete Training Scheme is designed to provide elite athletes free access to Cheshire West & Chester Council leisure facilities.

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OnTrack: inspired by Clatterbridge

This project will draw on the positive image of Paralympic and Olympic athletes to inspire the centres teenage and young adults to take part in sport and physical activity, and have the opportunity to develop to there chosen level.

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Mini Beast Triathlon & Marathon Walks

SUSTAINABILITY/ FEB 2010 A series of family focused fun events bringing the environment and the Olympics together.

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Wigan: What's Your Game

SPORT/ NOV 2009 Wigan’s What’s Your Game Calendar will dedicate a month of the year to a particular sport, challenging the local clubs via the voluntary sector and established development groups to work together in partnership to raise the profile of tha

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CADs

SPORT/ MAR 2010 CADS is a truly unique programme of events centred at the Seashell Trust. The main aim of the CADS programme is to provide sport and physical activity in a fully inclusive, supportive and non-judgemental environment.

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Halton Sports Programme

SPORT/ MAR 2010 Each year the Halton Sports Partnership brings together a calendar of sporting activities and events taking place within the borough and nationwide.

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Inspire Basketball Leagues

SPORT/ MAR 2010 Cheshire East Basketball leagues will be the first of its kind in the Cheshire East area giving young people the opportunity to compete at a local level. Young people will be able to design, take part, official, volunteer at the League

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Fun4U

SPORT/ NOV 2009 To provide disabled young people with the opportunity to experience a broader range of sporting activity in a safe and welcoming environment

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Street Sports

SPORT/ MAR 2010 Street Sports is a new project aimed at engaging 11 – 16 year olds on targeted estates (with high levels of anti social behaviour) across Cheshire East through work by the Police Community Safety Officers (PCSOs).

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Going for Gold

VOLUNTEERING/ MAR 2010 Volunteers from the refugee and asylum community are going to plan and run an Olympic themed event for everyone in their local community to attend.

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Knowsley Sporting Heros

VOLUNTEERING/ NOV 2009 Knowsley Sport Development are looking to recruit and increase the number of local volunteers and qualified coaches in anticipation for the up-surge and excitement generated in sport through hosting the 2012 London Olympic Games.

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Tameside Big Dance

SPORT/ MAR 2010 Tameside Sports Services are hosting Tameside’s Big Dance which will encompass an open air stage outside Ashton Town Hall, showcasing Tameside's local dance clubs, community dance groups and dance schools.

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St Helens Dance Week

SPORT/ MAR 2010 The week long 2012 themed event is to promote dance activity within the borough, encourage brand new participants to experience an activity and to promote the local clubs and organisations and celebrate the youth led activity.

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Table Tennis for you

SPORT/ MAR 2010 A series of Family Fun Olympic themed Table Tennis Sessions during the evenings that take place in the pre games training camp venue (Halton Stadium) and brand new 2012 inspired table tennis competitions.

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Golden Sports

SPORT/ MAR 2010 Knowsley Sport Development will showcase London’s 2012 Olympic Sports within Knowsley to celebrate and raise awareness of the 2 year countdown. All 26 Olympic sports will be delivered on a monthly basis starting July 10.

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Club, Coach & Volunteer Support

VOLUNTEERING/ MAR 2010 The Club Coach and Volunteer Support Project aims to embed the use of needs analysis (a standardised method of understanding what a club needs to do to improve the standard of its activities) into the community sport network.

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GO4it

SPORT/ MAR 2010 Go 4 it is a brand new initiative to drive physical activity through the power of the Olympic Games to young people who currently are on the register for free school meals.

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Proud and Spirited

SPORT/ MAR 2010 Knowsley Leisure and Culture service will maximise opportunities from the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics and ensure that this continues as part of the UK’s ‘Golden Decade of Sport’.

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Merseyside Disability Events

SPORT/ APR 2010 The Disability Events Programme provides opportunities for participation and competition in a number of sports to disabled people across Merseyside.

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50m Training Programme and Aquatic Youth Programme

SPORT/ DEC 2009 All swimming clubs in the NW region who have achieved the ASA swim21 clubmark status (this ensures they operate within effective policies such as child protection etc) have the opportunity to access use of the 50m pool for training their

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Go4it Mini Games

SPORT/ JUL 2010 Our event will be incorporated into our Summer Programme of activities and the Mini Games event will include: 1. Sports Activities 2. Cultural Experiences – Flag making 3. Play Activities Participants between the ages of 8 – 16 wil

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Sport Frenzy

SPORT/ JUL 2010 Sport Frenzy is an innovative existing project, though using the inspiration of the Games a brand new programme of activity from a broad range of new partners has been planned for this summer.

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Be a Sport

SPORT/ JUL 2010 Our project is a weeklong series of taster sporting sessions, delivered by clubs and organisations across the Borough of St Helens. The event is being used to promote local sport and dance opportunities.

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Get inspired

EDUCATION/ NOV 2009 Get Inspired is a programme run throughout primary schools in the Halton area from which children partake in Olympic Taster Sessions and encourage schools to register with Get Set.

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Functional Skills E Learning

EDUCATION/ JUL 2010 The project develops e-learning and associated resources to allow for the delivery of functional skills for LFE apprentices, AASE apprentices, apprentices in other sectors and learners within traditional school and college programmes.

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Sporting Lives

EDUCATION/ JUL 2010 This project aims to provide the Young Ambassadors with training to support them to become living books and within this help them to identify an experience that they can share with community groups during ‘sporting lives’ events.

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Da Da Volunteering Programme

VOLUNTEERING/ JUL 2010 DaDaFest International 2010 Volunteering Programme is a new initiative that will enhance volunteer opportunities offered by DaDaFest International 2010; the largest Festival of Deaf and Disability Arts in the UK.

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Digital Futures Volunteering Programme

VOLUNTEERING/ JUL 2010 Digital Futures is an innovative cultural engagement project, entirely led and shaped by young volunteers, focussed on creating a three-day Salford Digital Arts Festival during Spring/Summer2011 for the benefit of the community.

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Be InVOLved

VOLUNTEERING/ MAY 2010 Aims to increase volunteer opportunities and the number of volunteers within sports clubs, so the sports clubs have the capacity to increase numbers of participation, and increase sustainability of sports clubs and participation.

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VISPA

VOLUNTEERING/ MAY 2010 The programme will provide voluntary opportunities through our programmes, which will include roles such as coaching, administration, officiating, marketing, promotion and play work.

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World Games Challenge

EDUCATION/ MAY 2010 The World Games Challenge requires students (usually aged 14-16) to use their practical, problem-solving and decision making skills in designing and planning an ‘Olympic style event’.

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Manchester Volunteer Sport Bureau

VOLUNTEERING/ JUL 2009 Manchester City Council have set up a Sport and Physical Activity Volunteering Bureau, which identifies, trains and deploys volunteers to support sport and physical activity across Manchester.

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Stories of the World : Global Threads - North West - November 2008-2012

Stories of the World presents exciting new museum exhibitions across the UK, created by young people.

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Supporter to Reporter

EDUCATION/ APR 2009 S2R uses the power of sport to build young people’s self-esteem, communication skills and sense of responsibility and purpose. They are trained to act like professional reporters at sports events, with specific tasks and deadlines.

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Inspire to aim higher

EDUCATION/ MAR 2010 A Olympic themed day hosted my the RAF Museum Cosford and organised and planned by students from South Cheshire College

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Wigan Council’s Children and Young People Service keep fit

Fit 4 Fun

HEALTH/ APR 2010 A scheme to inspire young people above a healthy weight in Wigan to become healthier and improve their physical and mental well.

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somewhereto Pilot - Crewe - January 2009-2012

somewhereto gives 16-25 year olds the support to access spaces that are not available to them, to do the things they love doing.

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We Play Launch - Manchester - 24 March 2009

March 2009 saw the launch of WE PLAY - a Legacy Trust UK funded project integrating year round public events, community programmes and the development of new work up to 2012.

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Abandon Normal Devices Launch - 16 April-24 June 2009 - Manchester and Liverpool

The Abandon Normal Devices (AND) festival of new cinema and digital culture launched with the eight week film shoot of Centre of Attention, followed by Renegade Cinema in Liverpool in April and Get Played in Manchester in collaboration with moves08.

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Village Screen/Picnic on the Screen - 24th - 28th June 2009 - Glastonbury/South West

Village Screen, an Inspire mark project in the South West at Glastonbury Festival, is a UK wide programme led by the South West 2012 Creative Programmer with the UK's network of Creative Programmers, Screen Agencies and BBC.

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Preston has the Gold Factor

Launched in 2009, a new sporting initiative in Preston promises to identify talented local youngsters and help them develop their sporting potential.

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Young Ambassadors run Active Arcade

The Young Ambassadors in Hartford, Cheshire, have developed an innovative London 2012-inspired approach to engaging children who don’t normally participate in physical activity other than their compulsory PE lessons.

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Passport to Pedalling

SUSTAINABILITY/ JAN 2010 Cumbria Tourism’s Passport to Pedalling project is aimed at encouraging people to get into the saddle and build up their skills, endurance and fitness by cycling more regularly.

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Unsilent Night -29 October 2009 - Liverpool

A one off screening of classic British shorts from the silent era, celebrating early primitive film and pioneers in collaboration with contemporary musicians from across the North West

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Cultural Conversations - Liverpool and Merseyside - February 2010-October 2012

Cultural Conversations is Brouhaha's three year thematic carnival arts programme running fom 2010 to 2012. It hosts a number of large and small scale carnivals and parades locally, nationally and internationally.

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Blaze - Lancashire and Fylde Coast - 27 May - September 2010

WE PLAY's third annual programme Blaze launched in Preston in May 2010 of this year and showcased its dynamic programme of six art/sport commissions featuring in its Summer 2010 programme and for presentation as a series of routes and trails across variou

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Mechanical Games - June to October 2010

Mechanical Games is an interactive version of an international sporting competition for the masses, where anyone can perform internationally recognised sports and everyone can vote on gold medal winners.

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The Games - North West and UK - 25 July - 6 November 2010

The Games is sports based comedy theatre show which presents the stories of the ancient games to a new audience, invited as part of the show to take part in sporting activities.

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The Road to the Big Game - Nelson - 24 July, 28 July-September 2010

Blaze young producers from 'Fuse1318' theatre workshop, part of Pendle based Fusion Community arts, commissioned New York artist Tom Russotti to work with them to develop The Road to the Big Game, a series of new game and sporting events held at Nelson Cr

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AfroReggae 2010 Liverpool - 25 July 2010-21 August 2010

A four week residency and series of public showings led by nine artists from AfroReggae - a cultural movement based in Rio de Janeiro - with three breakdancers from Bad Taste Cru, who took daily workshops to centres and outdoor areas in Liverpool where dr

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Mintfest International Summer School - 30 August-5 September 2010 - Kendal

The UK’s first ever street arts summer school helping up to 30 young and emerging street artists from across the UK to develop their skills and expertise.

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