The Youth Sport Trust are working alongside the major events team at UK Sport and six major host cities: Bath / Bristol, Birmingham, London, Manchester, Sheffield and Tyne and Wear to build a project which aims to identify, train and deploy teams of young people as ‘event crews.’ They will work at a number of major sporting events which will take place from 2008 through to 2011 and beyond.
The delivery of a successful 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and the many International major events that will precede the Games, will rely heavily upon a 70,000 strong volunteer workforce, many of whom will be young people. It is essential that young people are equipped with the necessarily skills and experience that it takes to undertake a volunteering role at a major sporting event.
The aspiration for this programme is to reach across established community divides, inspire young people to “get involved” and tackle negative perceptions of young people by providing high profile examples of the positive contribution that young people can and do make
Six young people have been recruited as full-time volunteers to take up the role of Young Event Volunteer Development Officers (YEVDO) in each city. A YEVDO is a full-time volunteer opportunity that has been offered through a university and host city. They are young people who have an aspiration to drive the development of event volunteering for other young people. Each YEVDO is given a unique opportunity to work within a host city of their choice (on application) and gain an insight into the development of sport, event management, and initiate pathways into event volunteering for other young people. New YEVDOs are appointed year-on-year.
This year’s YEVDOs are:
Bath/Bristol: Sam Jones - samantha10.Jones@uwe.ac.uk
Birmingham: Natasha Cuthbert - natasha.cuthbert@birmingham.gov.uk
London: Helen Killingley - killingh@lsbu.ac.uk
Manchester: Chloe Kerr - chloe_kerr@live.co.uk
Sheffield: Kelly Richardson - kelly.richardson@sheffield.gov.uk
Tyne and Wear: Gemma McIntosh - gemmamcintosh@gateshead.gov.uk
For further information please contact our Leadership and Volunteering Development Officer at: louise.gruchy@youthsporttrust.org
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