Five Olympic things to do now! Sign up and find out more….
The 2012 Local Leaders initiative is an invitation to people across the UK to take the 2012 Games into their community and create their own celebrations next year, for the Olympic Torch Relay and other key moments during the Olympic and Paralympic Games. People are encouraged to sign up to the Local Leader programme to receive further information on a range of themed celebration ideas focusing on the Opening Ceremony evening, gardening, quizzes and barbecues and be in the front row to receive free London 2012 event materials.
http://www.london2012.com/get-involved/local-leaders/index.
Sign up to be among the first to receive information about the London 2012 Festival at http://www.london2012.com/festival The UK’s biggest ever cultural festival, with 1000 events and over 10 million free opportunities to take part. There should be something to suit everyone’s interests.
Get dancing, sign up for the Big Dance and www.bigdance2012.com You can take part in a world record breaking attempt on 18 May, or get involved for Big Dance Week that will run from 7 – 15 July, including the Big Street Dance on 14 July.
Join Hopscotch to Victory with Live Arts Collective East and be part of a world record hopscotch attempt on 30 June 2012. Watch their video and sign up for information at http://liveartcollectiveeast.com/hopscotch-to-victory/
Ring a bell for Martin Creed’s biggest ever work All The Bells. For more information and to register to ring a bell (at 8.00am – 8.03am on the morning of Friday 27 July) www.allthebells.com Hand bells, door bells, bicycle bells, church bells, town hall bells, sleigh bells, cow bells, school bells, last orders bells, dinner bells… where there is a bell, we need someone to ring it!
Less than 200 days to go….
Alastair Haines
Coordinator for the 2012 Olympiad
Cambridgeshire County Council
PO Box CC1219
Castle Court
Shire Hall
Cambridge
CB3 0AP
01223 699351
alastair.haines@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
GOLD - www.goldlivingsport.co.uk
GOLD is the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Coordinating Group for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and Cultural Olympiad.
Volunteering Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
http://www.volunteeringcambsandpboro.org.uk
Cambridgeshire County Council Olympics information
http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/leisure/olympics2012/
London 2012
www.london2012.com
