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

Places People Play is a £135m initiative that will bring the 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 will transform 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 will 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 will inspire 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

We will create the 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

Disability legacy

We are consulting disabled people and those who support them on how we can invest in tackling the barriers they face when they want to play sport and ensure that every element of the Places People Play programme works for disabled sports men and women too.

Find out more about our disability legacy

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