Young People

Through Get Set, the dynamic London 2012 education programme, schools, colleges and their pupils across the Northwest can get involved in the excitement and buzz of the Games.

Young People

Get Set aims to use the power of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games to inspire and engage children and young people across the UK.

It’s all about encouraging children and young people to live out the Olympic and Paralympic Values of friendship, respect, courage, excellence, determination, inspiration and equality.

The programme is driven by an interactive website, which features a host of free resources for 3 to 19 year-olds to get them thinking about these Values. Resources range from sound and word matching games, activity sheets, quizzes and puzzles for younger children, to inspirational films and teamwork, problem solving and leadership exercises for older students.

For any Get Set Registration queries call 01634729877

TO CHECK REGISTRATIONS IN YOUR AREA http://getset.london2012.com/en/join-us/registrations-in-your-region/north-west 

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HOW TO JOIN THE LONDON 2012 EDUCATION PROGRAMME - GET SET

1. REGISTER ONLINE http://getset.london2012.com/en/join-us/register 

Over 1,814 schools in the Northwest have already signed up to the Get Set programme, but that’s still only a third of all the region’s schools. If you’re a teacher and would like to get involved with Get Set, you can register your school or college now. Registration will enable you to access additional resources, receive the Get Set monthly e-newsletter and keep a blog of your school’s activities.

2. BLOG, BLOG, BLOG

Once you’ve registered, share your great ideas and projects with the London 2012 education team by emailing education@london2012.com and your school or college could feature on the Get Set map.

3. JOIN THE GET SET NETWORK http://getset.london2012.com/en/home

this is the stage that schools should aim for, the Get Set Network. The benefits are amazing, competitions, plaque for your school, logo on your letter head, Olympic Village visits and much much more

To join, all you have to do is answer 3 questions, to help you along the way we have great GET SET NETWORK applications from Kirkby Sports College’s blog and Hartford High School's Blog 

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Updated March 2011

Click here for the NORTHWEST GET SET SCHOOLS REGISTRATIONS

NORTHWEST GET SET NETWORK SCHOOLS – Total Applied: 243

 

Case Studies

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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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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An Ode to Charles Fourier

The project will combine research into utopia, playscapes and creative industry workspaces, creating a hybrid prototype for a fu

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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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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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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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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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Motivate8 Wirral

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Wirral Play Games

SPORT/ JUL 2010 Community Play Rangers provides 30 free, open access play sessions, each week, for children aged 5 – 13 in different parks and play areas across Wirral.

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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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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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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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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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