Community Games - Get involved - Become an Advocate!

 

Community Games provide a great opportunity for you to bring your community together to take part in sporting and cultural activities inspired by, and in celebration of, the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

 

Community Games Advocates have a key role in inspiring, targeting and promoting Community Games to local leaders and organisations in their areas.  We need Community Games Advocates in every part of Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent to fulfil their role to achieve the target of getting 88 successful Community Games taking place involving over 17,000 participants to experience their ‘Olympic moment’ between now and September 2012.

 

Community Games Advocates

 

These will be organisations (and individuals within organisations) who work with target community groups and are able to recognise the wider value/benefit/potential for community groups to engage with the Community Games programme, e.g. Rural Community Councils, local authority leisure services, School Sport Partnerships, Arts Development teams, community development officers, officers, library services, Scout Associations etc. Their main role will be to:

• Promote / advocate the games to communities they are in contact with
• Identify and ‘recruit’ Community Games Organisers by encouraging them to register
• Provide local knowledge, examples of good practice 
• Direct people to the website and support information
• Offer the regional team comments on the support programme
• Be prepared to test new marketing tools and training courses
• Guide local organisers or sign post them to people who can help.

Community Games

 

Community Games are driven and shaped by the local community.  Whilst Community Games advocates should provide local support it is not their role to organise the events.

 

Benefits of being an Advocate:

 

By becoming a Community Games Advocate your community is going to be eternally grateful to you for facilitating such a great opportunity that has brought them together, developed their skills and has encouraged them to enjoy a fantastic event.  Other benefits for Advocates include:  

• Being part of the West Midlands Community Games ‘Team’, receiving regular newsletters and support
• Being linked in to the London 2012 Legacy movement
• Accessing information and support to help your local communities
• Profiling the achievements of your local communities to a regional audience
• Finding out what others are doing across the West Midlands
• Influencing the Community Games support programme
• Widening your experience and personal development.

Support that you will receive:

 

All Community Games Advocates will receive the following support:  

• Induction briefing
• Access to a closed membership website to download presentational and promotional resources and to discuss challenges and opportunities with other Advocates
• Information regarding organisations in your area who have registered an interest or a Community Games on the web site
• Community Games Newsletters and e-mail updates
• Free attendance at training courses
• Knowledge of how to access resources, which are available for the Community Games regionally and in your area.

Contact 

 

For further information or an informal discussion on how to become a Community Games Advocate please contact:

Chris Turner
T: 01785 619681
E: cturner@staffordbc.gov.uk
 

For further details please visit the web site: www.communitygames.org.uk