This year, it’s your turn to be a sporting hero!
Sport Makers is a national Olympic legacy programme to support hundreds of thousands of new hours of grassroots sport across the country.
As a Sport Maker you will 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.
What difference can I make?
Sport Makers are people who make sport happen. People like you.
The programme was developed as part of Places People Play, the legacy strategy for the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.
It’s a once-in-a-lifetime chance to create a lasting legacy and everyone can play their part.
Every one of us can help make a positive change, from inviting your friends to join you on a Saturday morning run to laying down a challenge like running the Swindon Half Marathon or even starting your very own running club.
Whatever your sport or activity you wish to be involved in, just by knowing you want to be a part of the legacy of The Games is enough – you can become a Sport Maker.
Sport needs people like you to make it happen and by becoming a Sport Maker you can acquire the skills, knowledge and opportunities you need to get more people playing sport.
Or to put it another way, you will become the sort of sporting hero that makes a difference to the lives of other people and have a good time doing it.
So go on….
Be the inspiration – Be a Sport Maker
This programme is delivered in partnership with Swindon Borough Council’s Leisure Services and the Volunteer Centre, Swindon. If this whets your appetite to help the sporting community in Swindon then Leisure Services and the Volunteer Centre can help you to continue to offer support after you have done your 10 hours.
For more information contact Gladys Barr on 07768 687986 or email gbarr@swindon.gov.uk
For more information on Sport Makers contact Ben Maxfield on 07917 030947 or email ben@wiltssport.org