Sport England Tuesday kicked off the “runningsports” campaign which offers training opportunities and resources to help drive the development of volunteers’ skills.
It is hoped the campaign will generate highly qualified volunteers for the London 2012 Summer Games which requires about 70,000 volunteers.
Lisa Wainwright, head of national sport said, “volunteers’ passion, enthusiasm and drive are invaluable. If this can be channelled and combined with the right tools, tactics and techniques, the potential benefits to sport as a whole could be huge”.
She added, “it can also help to ensure that we have an army of qualified volunteers come 2012, when an estimated 70,000 volunteers will be needed for the London Olympic and Paralympic Games.
“Developing our volunteers now will help to ensure they can support sport before and after the Games, as well as during the Games period itself”.
