Olympic and Paralympic legacy: Inspired by 2012 – third annual report is released

The third annual report covering the impact of the London 2012 Olympics has been released.

The Inspired by 2012: The legacy from the Olympic and Paralympic Games reports have been released every summer since 2012 and reflect on the legacy activities that took place during the previous 12 months. This report features activities that took place between the summers of 2014 and 2015.

The report is structured around five broad areas which are the key benchmarks against which the legacy is being measured. Those areas are:

•Sport and Healthy Living;
•Regeneration of East London;
•Economic Growth;
•Bringing Communities Together; and
•The Legacy from the Paralympics

Some of the major milestones and events that took place in the last 12 months and that are detailed in the report include:

UK Sport’s Major Events programme investing £11.5m of National Lottery and Exchequer money. These events included The Grand Départ of the Tour de France in Yorkshire, East of England and London. This event alone in July last year, saw 4.8 million people attend and generated £128m for local economies.

Public Health England’s launch of the national physical activity framework “Everybody Active Every Day”. The framework is based on international evidence of ‘what works’, and provides an evidence-based approach to increasing physical activity and reducing inactivity in local communities in England.

The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park received nearly 5 million visitors since fully reopening to the public in April 2014. As well as this, the first homes went on sale at Chobham Manor, the first new neighbourhood on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The former Athletes’ Village known as the East Village now has over 4,500 inhabitants.

Last autumn’s DCMS and DWP survey of disabled sports fans and spectator sports clubs about what barriers they face in attending sporting events. This survey also looked at the challenges faced by clubs in providing access to their venues and facilities. The findings of the survey are due to be published later in 2015.

To download the full legacy report, click here.

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