Sport Makers

The Sport Makers programme, funded by the National Lottery, is recruiting tens of thousands of new sports volunteers aged 16 years and over to organise and lead community sporting activities across the country.

Sport Makers are the people who directly make sport happen at the local level. Some Sport Makers will organise sport for themselves and their friends, colleagues and neighbours. Others won’t be taking part themselves, but will be doing all those other things that make the sporting activity possible.

Everyone who chooses to become a Sport Maker will be invited by their county sports partnership (CSP) to come to an inspiring workshop near to where they live or work. They will then be supported to find local opportunities that suit them to increase participation in sport.

These Sport Makers will organise and support hundreds of thousands of new hours of grassroots sport across the country. While doing so, they will bring the Olympic and Paralympic values to life in every community.

Sport Makers will be fully inclusive and target participants including people who have a disability, both males and females and participants from BME groups. The programme will run until September 2013.

Outcomes

Sport Makers will ensure that:

• 50,000 new Sport Makers are recruited and invited to an orientation workshop delivered locally through a CSP and by an inspirational trainer
• 40,000 Sport Makers take up opportunities to increase participation for a minimum of 10 hours each, with support from their CSP. Of those deployed, we anticipate 20,000 will continue to volunteer in sport beyond these 10 hours
• The Olympic and Paralympic values are brought to life for the Sport Makers through their orientation workshop so that they feel part of the Olympic movement and put these values into action in raising participation
• As a result of Sport Makers, many thousands of new opportunities for people aged 16 and over to participate in sport will be created.
  

Key partners include:

• British Olympic Association
• London Organisating Committee of the Olympic Games
• National governing bodies
• County sports partnerships
• Local authority sports development teams
• Other local government partners
• Other national and county/sub-regional voluntary partners.

For more information, visit www.sportmakers.co.uk