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Community Games has been shortlisted for The National Lottery Awards – to be broadcast on the BBC later this year.
Community Games, which started as a Legacy Trust UK programme in the West Midlands, gives budding Olympians and local communities everywhere the chance to celebrate the Olympic and Paralympic Games by encouraging friends, neighbours, colleagues and local organisations to come together and host their own events.
And the programme is now having a huge impact on the lives of people right across the country, providing the impetus for communities to come together, for public spaces to be injected with new life and for people to try new activities and get involved in physical activity.
Community Games is competing against nine other projects in the Best Sport Project category in the National Lottery Awards and members of the public are being asked to vote for their favourite project online or by phone.
Voting is now live and you can get Community Games through to the final by calling or by clicking on www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk/awards/sports
Voters have until the 22 July to vote in the first round and the three projects with the most votes in each category will then go through to the final round of public voting.
Community Games was inspired by the Wenlock Olympian Games founded by Dr William Penny Brookes in 1850 in Much Wenlock in Shropshire. The Wenlock Olympian Games were the inspiration behind the modern Olympic and Paralympic Games when Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic movement, visited the games in 1890. Community Games sees our region’s heritage come full circle – paying homage to a community event that inspired a global event and now taking the inspiration of a global event to inspire a new series of community events.
Anyone looking to organise a Community Games should visit www.communitygames.org.uk to register their event and download the organiser’s toolkit.