Supporting a wide range of innovative cultural and sporting activities for all, which celebrate the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and which will leave a lasting legacy in communities throughout the United Kingdom

Legacy Trust UK - Aims

Our mission

To support a wide range of innovative cultural and sporting activities for all, which celebrate the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and which will leave a lasting legacy in communities throughout the United Kingdom

Our purpose

To fulfil our mission we will make awards of money for Charitable Purposes including without limitation cultural, educational, healthy, sporting and other charitable activities for the benefit of the community in any Approved Territory.

Our grants

The Trust will not be running any open application grant programmes in order to keep administrative costs low and maximise the funds available within the awards made. The awards will be made under the following three broad themes:

Sport & Wellbeing
Knowledge & Learning
Arts & Culture

These themes are intended to inspire the widest possible range of projects in which the maximum number of people across the UK can get involved.

There will be 16 grants made, these will be strategic grants and will be either allocated (12), predetermined (1) or go to tender (3).

We are making the 12 allocated grants through national and regional structures for umbrella projects/themes for Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the 9 English regions - that takes about 50% of the total funds. Further information about these will be available in mid March when the outline proposals have been submitted and approved.

The 4 UK wide programmes are
  1. The UK Schools Games (pre determined and has already run for 2 years)
  2. A joint programme with LOCOG on the World Festival of Youth Culture
  3. Big Arts Week (working title to run in primary schools as a parrallel to the Schools Games)
  4. An activity around festivals and performing arts

The Schools Games are being run by the Youth Sport Trust (pre determined)

The other 3 programmes/activities will go out to tender for UK wide reach around April 2008.

We will not have any funds for capital, equipment or ongoing running costs of existing organisations.

Projects are likely to encompass:

community sport  | healthy living  | wellbeing  | education  | learning and personal development  | heritage  | the performing arts  | creativity  | community events and festivals 

The Trust welcomes projects which encourage a joined-up approach across sport, education and culture.