Continuing the legacy of the London 2012 games by funding inclusive sport and reaching inactive people
Bringing the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games to young people across the UK – and bringing young people to Glasgow for the Games!
Working with the Scottish Government, our Sporting Equality Fund supported no fewer than 12 projects targeting women and girls to participate in sport and physical activity.
National Paralympic Day is a celebration of the Paralympic movement and an opportunity for people in the UK to come together to relive the wonder of London 2012.
Spirit of 2012 is a legacy partner of the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games and was awarded £1.3 million by the Scottish Government to get the least active people in Scotland more active and generate learning for the benefit of the rest of Scotland.
Get Out, Get Active is an initiative to get people active in locations across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The Changing Lives Fund was a partnership between the Scottish Government, sportscotland, the Robertson Trust and Spirit of 2012.
Breaking Boundaries is a £1.8 million project bringing together young people, their families and communities through regular engagement in cricket: playing, spectating and volunteering.
With the starting gun fired for 6 months to go, yesterday I was delighted to head to Salford to meet young people and athlete ambassadors involved in the latest Get Set project – Get Set’s Path to Paris – as we look forward to the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Celebrating Get Set gives…
Spirit of 2012, Counsel, and Loughborough University are delighted to be working together to deliver an exciting project to explore the potential for a UK Capital of Sport. This project will have a strong focus on health and wellbeing and will work through multiple stages to gather evidence and testing stakeholder and public appetite for…
Their joint £325,000 investment into a Sporting Equality Fund (the Fund), which was launched in July 2017, resulted in more than 2,800 girls and women taking part in sport and physical activity. More than half (55%) participated in regular, sustained activity over several months. The Fund’s evaluation report is published today, on International Women’s Day….
Spirit has awarded a fund of £20,000 to Netball Scotland to build its Sirens for Success programme for another 12 months. Spirit funded Netball Scotland last year through the Sporting Equality Fund, which delivered the Sirens for Success programme to 400 participants in 20 schools across nine challenge authorities. “We’re glad that we’re able to…
Spirit extends its funding of ‘Get Out Get Active’ programme to tackle inactivity across the UK Thousands more inactive people in the UK are set to benefit from £3million additional funding from Spirit of 2012. The award has been made to extend the Get Out Get Active (GOGA) programme, allowing it to continue for a…
Spirit of 2012 is very proud to have funded GOGA for the last 7 years and to have committed £7.5m to the programme – being the founding funder in Phase 1 and then joined by Sport England and London Marathon Foundation. Attending the GOGA conference and celebration event is a bittersweet moment for me. As…
Today, Sporting Equals, the Youth Sport Trust and Spirit of 2012 have submitted evidence to the Independent Commission on Equity in Cricket (ICEC). Launched in March 2021 in response to evidence of pervasive racism and discrimination in the sport, ICEC presents an opportunity to take real action to improve the experiences of people who love…
Commissioned by Spirit of 2012 in September 2023, Loughborough University and Counsel Ltd. teamed up to explore the potential for a UK Capital of Sport, the sporting equivalent of a UK City of Culture, with a strong focus on health and wellbeing. After nine months of extensive research, creative thinking, collaboration and consultation, the project…
The Public Accounts Committee has been critical of DCMS and Sport England over the weekend for making insufficient progress at reducing inactivity. It’s something we’ve thought a lot about at Spirit of 2012. As the social legacy funder for the London 2012 Games, we’ve funded powerful projects that focus on finding out what works to…
Chief Executive of Sport England, Tim Hollingsworth, has come out in strong defence of major events, following the abrupt and disappointing decision of Victoria State Premier Daniel Andrews to pull out of hosting the 2026 Commonwealth Games, and just a day before Alberta has cancelled its bid for the 2030 Games. In an article for…
For the last 4 years, Active Scotland have used Scottish Women And Girls Week to shine a light on the participation of women and girls in sport and physical activity. This year, This year the week provides an opportunity to celebrateinclusion, whilst continuing to promote the visibility and participation of women and girls in sport…
As someone who runs, plays football and likes to get a sweat on, I understand the benefits of being active on people’s physical, mental and social wellbeing. But I know that becoming active isn’t always easy. For inactive people there are many barriers. The UK population is now more physically inactive than at any time…
This summer marks ten years since the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and last week the National Audit Office (NAO) published a report Grassroots participation in sports and physical activity , and we were delighted to contribute to the research. The report highlights the perceived failure to deliver the promised legacy on sports participation,…
Renaisi’s new report, Understanding, Supporting, and Measuring Wellbeing presents wellbeing outcomes data of Spirit grants between 2019 to 2022, and looks at some of the activities and approaches that were successful in improving wellbeing. I wanted to share some personal reflections on these. I got into this field because I’ve had my own struggles with…
The Changing Lives Through Sport and Physical Activity (CLTSPA) Fund is being launched in partnership between the Scottish Government, sportscotland, the Robertson Trust and Spirit of 2012, and will support organisations to deliver positive change in communities across the country. The CLTSPA Fund is part of a wider £1.8million programme that provides additional resource into…