Places People Play – delivering a mass participation sporting legacy from the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games

Places People Play is a £155m initiative that is bringing inspiration and magic of a home Olympic Games and Paralympic Games into the heart of local communities

It is being delivered by Sport England in partnership with the British Olympic Association, the British Paralympic Association and with the support of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games.

We are transforming the places where people play sport, making the benefits of London 2012 visible in cities, towns and villages across the country through:

• Iconic facilities - investing in regionally-signficant multi-sport facilities that represent best practice for the sector.
  Find out more about Iconic Facilities
• Inspired Facilities - modernising and extending clubs and opening up local facilities for community sport.
  Find out more about Inspired Facilities
• Protecting Playing Fields - protecting and improving hundreds of playing fields across the country, preserving high-quality spaces for local people to play and enjoy sport.
  Find out more about Protecting Playing Fields
  

We are inspiring people to make sport happen at the local level, embedding the Olympic and Paralympic values in grassroots sport, through:

• Sport Makers - recruiting, training and deploying 40,000 Sport Makers as the next generation of sports volunteers to organise and lead grassroots sporting activities.
  Find out more about Sport Makers
• Club Leaders - providing free business skills, training and support to those doing the day-to-day running of community sport. Through improving business skills, Club Leaders aims to create a robust, economically sustainable and enterprising club network.
  To find out more about the learning, support and networking opportunities available visit the Club Leaders website. 

We have created sporting opportunities and challenges that give everyone the chance to become part of the mass participation legacy, through:

• Gold Challenge - An independent initiative that is motivating over 100,000 adults to test themselves in multiple Olympic and Paralympic sports, and in doing so raise millions of pounds for charity.
  Find out more about Gold Challenge
• Sportivate - Providing opportunities for teenagers and young adults up to 25 years to receive six weeks of coaching in the sport of their choice and guiding them into regular participation.
  Find out more about Sportivate
  

Legacy for disability sport

• Inclusive Sport: We are investing £8m into programmes that will grow the numbers of disabled people choosing to play sport. Applications to this fund are currently being assessed and announcements will be made in December 2012.
  Find out more abot Inclusive Sport

Consultation results

To help us shape Places People Play, we consulted members of the public on how National Lottery Funding can be used to support a mass participation legacy from the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.

• Download the consultation results