Volunteering
One of the biggest legacies of London 2012 will be in sports
volunteering.
Some 70,000 volunteers were needed to deliver a successful
Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012. From spectator services such
as ticket control and information points to medical and language
services, volunteers will carry out essential tasks to ensure the
Games run smoothly.
With competition for volunteering opportunities as fierce as the
sporting competition itself, Medway Council hopes the volunteering
spirit will spread wider than the 2012 Games themselves and that
includes right here in Medway.
Sports ambassadors and volunteering in Medway
Medway Council recognises that sports volunteers are the
life-blood of British sport and
are signing up Medway Sports Ambassadors to help
achieve its ambition of delivering high quality sport to
all.
Local sports volunteers play a vital role in the delivery,
organisation and administration of voluntary sports clubs, district
leagues, county governing bodies of sport and regional and national
sports governing bodies.
They are also vital to running successful sporting events,
whether at local, county, regional, national or international
level.
More than 100 local volunteers helped deliver Medway's first
ever global sporting event, the Modern Pentathlon World Cup in
April 2010.
Many of them returned for the 2011
Modern Pentathlon European Championships.
These ambassadors and others will also play a vital
role in delivering our signature local events and national events
being staged in Medway including the
Medway Mile, British
Transplant Games, National
England Basketball Playoff Finals and the Medway
Festival of Sport.
If you would like to volunteer and sign up to be a Sports
Ambassador for any event currently listed or any in the pipeline,
please email sportsdevteam@medway.gov.uk
to register your interest.