About Legacy Trust UK
Legacy Trust UK was set up in 2007 to support communities and organisations across the UK to create projects that celebrate London 2012 in a way that is relevant to them and which will leave a lasting legacy. We fund 16 programmes with over 100 arts, sports and education projects currently taking place across the UK.
Our projects are very wide-ranging, but all share three key aims:
- to unite culture, sport and education, in line with the values and vision of the Olympic and Paralympic Games
- to make a lasting difference to all those involved
- to be grassroots projects, often small in scale, and unite communities of interest at local and regional level
Legacy Trust UK has allocated £40 million funding through twelve regional and four national programmes. Our funding is provided by the Big Lottery Fund (£29 million), Department for Culture Media and Sport (£6 million for UK School Games) and Arts Council England (£5 million).
Since 2008, our projects have gone from strength to strength, and have so far reached audiences of 4.5 million, directly engaged over 500,000 children and young people, worked with over 15,000 volunteers and created an economic impact of £35 million.
The Trust is a Principal Funder of the Cultural Olympiad and London 2012 Festival. All of our cultural projects are part of the Cultural Olympiad and many are also part of the London 2012 Festival.
