Category Archives: The Olympics & Paralympics

Delivering or Demonstrating a London 2012 Sporting Legacy?

Posted on December 10, 2011 by

From the ambitions of the final bid presentation that secured the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games for London in Singapore in 2005, through the legacy promises made in the previous Labour government’s legacy action plan published in 2008, to the … Continue reading →

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The Difference between What’s Possible and What’s Probable: Why the Centre for Social Justice is Wrong on Olympic Legacy!

Posted on May 24, 2011 by

The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) today launches a report “More than a Game: Harnessing the Power of Sport to Transform the Lives of Disadvantaged Young People”, in which it draws a number of conclusions relating to the sporting legacy … Continue reading →

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Lies, Damned Lies and Sports Participation Statistics?

Posted on December 17, 2010 by

Sport England has recently published summary findings for sports participation in 2009/10 from the Active People Survey under the headline “Cycling and running boom shows appetite for sports participation”, with a growth in netball also highlighted. But what do these … Continue reading →

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School Sport Partnerships – We’ve heard the opinions and anecdotes, but here’s what the evidence says…

Posted on December 9, 2010 by

For the last eight years I have been funded to research and evaluate the delivery of various sport initiatives in schools and with young people.  This work has been funded by agencies such as the Youth Sport Trust and Sport … Continue reading →

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