A small working group has been set up to explore the opportunities for running some small Personal Best pilot programmes in the region by 2010. Please click here for a general overview of what the Personal Best training programme.
Personal Best is just one way in which we might encourage the development of event volunteering skills in the region, however, it is hoped that we can engage with many more partners to help achieve the Yorkshire Gold ambition ‘to be recognised as a great region for volunteering’. The SEE for the 2012 Games Core Group shares information directly with the Yorkshire Gold ‘Active and Engaged Communities’ sub-group who are well placed to look at volunteer structures and capacity in the region.
Stay up to date with the region's plans for developing a volunteering legacy at:
http://www.lgyh.gov.uk/Our%20Work/People-and-Places/Olympics-2012
But we are very interested to hear about any of your programmes or initiatives where the objective is to increase event volunteering skills in Yorkshire and the Humber – at major events, festivals, cultural and sporting events and many others. What skills are required at these events? Do we have enough volunteers with the right knowledge and experience to be deployed across the region’s myriad events now and in future? Are we engaging effectively with young people, disabled people and developing the right pathways of volunteering opportunity for them?
In a recent SEE for the 2012 Games briefing two presentations were provided on behalf of Local Government Yorkshire and the Humber and the Sheffield 2012 Team that help you understand what sort of volunteering legacy the region is seeking, and specifically how event volunteering, skills and training opportunities can join up.
Volunteering Legacy - Emma Hoddinott (YNY 2012 and Culture Team) on behalf of Sarah Tyler (Local Government Yorkshire and the Humber)
Sheffield Event Volunteering - Ben Brailsford, Sheffield 2012 Team
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If you have information to share about your own organisation’s event volunteering skills focus and initiatives please contact
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in the first instance.
Local Government Yorkshire and the Humber is the strategic lead for the 'communities' strand of the Yorkshire Gold Strategy. Please see links on this page http://www.yorkshire-gold.com/communities/ and for any direct enquiries please contact Sarah Tyler from LGYH who is also a member of the SEE for the 2012 Games Core Group - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it