Commonwealth Games
The Scottish Government has set up many and various scheme to ensure that the XX Commonwealth Games in Glasgow has a robust legacy that will benefit everyone in Scotland (and for some projects, beyond).
Sustainable Event Management
The Glasgow 2014 Organising Committee is developing environmental management plans for their venues, implementing initiatives to minimise and recycle waste. This work will ensure sustainability is embedded within the procurement process and sustainable transport plans, providing a template for future Games and other major events.
www.glasgow2014.com/about-us/games-sustainability
Find out how and where you can get involved, and more about what the Scottish Government, our agencies and partners are doing at: www.legacy2014.co.uk
Apply to be part of legacy 2014 at: www.legacy2014.co.uk/be-part-of-it
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Track our progress at: scotland.gov.uk/AssessingLegacy2014
Legacy 2014 Sustainability Hub
A project to celebrate and showcase the range of sustainability-related projects being delivered as part of the Glasgow 2014 Games.
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Find out how and where you can get involved, and more about what the Scottish Government, our agencies and partners are doing at: www.legacy2014.co.uk
Apply to be part of legacy 2014 at: www.legacy2014.co.uk/be-part-of-it
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Track our progress at: scotland.gov.uk/AssessingLegacy2014
Commonwealth Woodlands
A network of 13 Commonwealth Woodlands in and around Glasgow providing a range of activities such as Commonwealth-themed sculpture trails, tree stories and music workshops, walking routes, woodland workouts and green routes to school
Find out how and where you can get involved, and more about what the Scottish Government, our agencies and partners are doing at: www.legacy2014.co.uk
Apply to be part of legacy 2014 at: www.legacy2014.co.uk/be-part-of-it
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Sport Relief
A joint initiative with Sport Relief supporting some of the most disadvantaged people in Scotland and some of the Commonwealth’s poorest countries. The home element supports young people, older people and women with mental health problems or who suffer neglect or abuse. The ‘away’ element is helping groups and communities in three African countries.
| www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/ArtsCultureSport/Sport/MajorEvents/Glasgow-2014/Commonwealth-games/Indicators/SSRHaW |
Find out how and where you can get involved, and more about what the Scottish Government, our agencies and partners are doing at: www.legacy2014.co.uk
Apply to be part of legacy 2014 at: www.legacy2014.co.uk/be-part-of-it
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Track our progress at: scotland.gov.uk/AssessingLegacy2014
Community Organisations
Delivered by the Scottish Community Development Centre, to provide nine community organisations and agencies with a platform to define what they wanted as an outcome from the Commonwealth Games and how they could work together to get involved in it.
| www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/ArtsCultureSport/Sport/MajorEvents/Glasgow-2014/Commonwealth-games/Indicators/SCDCGL |
Find out how and where you can get involved, and more about what the Scottish Government, our agencies and partners are doing at: www.legacy2014.co.uk
Apply to be part of legacy 2014 at: www.legacy2014.co.uk/be-part-of-it
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Track our progress at: scotland.gov.uk/AssessingLegacy2014
Street Soccer Scotland
Using sport as a catalyst for change, Street Soccer Scotland deliver a range of football-related programmes and personal development services to socially disadvantaged adults and young people.
Find out how and where you can get involved, and more about what the Scottish Government, our agencies and partners are doing at: www.legacy2014.co.uk
Apply to be part of legacy 2014 at: www.legacy2014.co.uk/be-part-of-it
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Track our progress at: scotland.gov.uk/AssessingLegacy2014
Transport
Around £1billion of Games-related road and rail transport infrastructure projects will be completed in time for the 2014 Games.
www.transportscotland.gov
Find out how and where you can get involved, and more about what the Scottish Government, our agencies and partners are doing at: www.legacy2014.co.uk
Apply to be part of legacy 2014 at: www.legacy2014.co.uk/be-part-of-it
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Track our progress at: scotland.gov.uk/AssessingLegacy2014
Clyde Gateway
Clyde Gateway URC are delivering an ambitious regeneration programme, remediating land, creating state-of-the-art office and industrial space, attracting inward investment and local jobs and training opportunities.
Find out how and where you can get involved, and more about what the Scottish Government, our agencies and partners are doing at: www.legacy2014.co.uk
Apply to be part of legacy 2014 at: www.legacy2014.co.uk/be-part-of-it
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Track our progress at: scotland.gov.uk/AssessingLegacy2014
Venues and Village
The refurbished or newly developed venues and village will leave well-designed and sustainable state-of-the-art facilities for the local community to use and enjoy well beyond the Glasgow 2014 Games.
www.glasgow2014.com/games/venues
Find out how and where you can get involved, and more about what the Scottish Government, our agencies and partners are doing at: www.legacy2014.co.uk
Apply to be part of legacy 2014 at: www.legacy2014.co.uk/be-part-of-it
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Track our progress at: scotland.gov.uk/AssessingLegacy2014
Support a 2nd Team for 2014
Support a 2nd Team provides an opportunity for creating partnerships with countries participating in the Commonwealth Games and supporting them through their journey to the Games and beyond.
Support a 2nd Team is a programme of events to engage the cultures of Commonwealth countries and further develop links with Commonwealth regions. The programme provides an opportunity, as part of the wider Games Legacy, for creating partnerships with countries participating in the Commonwealth Games and supporting them through their journey to the Games and beyond. Local partners are being encouraged to get behind another Commonwealth country and cheer them on.
http://www.sportscotland.org.uk/schools/support_a_2nd_team
Find out how and where you can get involved, and more about what the Scottish Government, our agencies and partners are doing at: www.legacy2014.co.uk
Apply to be part of legacy 2014 at: www.legacy2014.co.uk/be-part-of-it
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Track our progress at: scotland.gov.uk/AssessingLegacy2014
SportScotland
A partnership by SportScotland and the Youth Sport Trust to recruit 14-17 year olds to help inspire other young people to take part in sport, and drive opportunity, engagement and change through sport. Young Ambassadors offer young people a pivotal role as advocates, role models and leaders within their school and wider community.
www.sportscotland.org.uk/YA
Find out how and where you can get involved, and more about what the Scottish Government, our agencies and partners are doing at: www.legacy2014.co.uk
Apply to be part of legacy 2014 at: www.legacy2014.co.uk/be-part-of-it
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Track our progress at: scotland.gov.uk/AssessingLegacy2014
Workshops
An exciting programme of annual regional conferences where university students deliver workshops to secondary school pupils to enable them to plan, organise and manage a Games-themed sports festival for their local primary school.
www.glasgow2014.com/join/lead-2014
Find out how and where you can get involved, and more about what the Scottish Government, our agencies and partners are doing at: www.legacy2014.co.uk
Apply to be part of legacy 2014 at: www.legacy2014.co.uk/be-part-of-it
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Track our progress at: scotland.gov.uk/AssessingLegacy2014
Young Scot
Young Scot working with partners to embed legacy-related activity within the Young Scot National Entitlement Card’s (NEC) national rewards programme.
https://rewards.youngscot.org/Legacy2014
Find out how and where you can get involved, and more about what the Scottish Government, our agencies and partners are doing at: www.legacy2014.co.uk
Apply to be part of legacy 2014 at: www.legacy2014.co.uk/be-part-of-it
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Track our progress at: scotland.gov.uk/AssessingLegacy2014
Enhancing Young Peoples’ Learning Confidence
A Young Scot programme recruiting 14-26 year olds across Scotland to promote the benefits major sporting events can bring and leave behind for Scotland’s young people and their communities. The programme also enhances young peoples’ learning confidence and experiences through their role as YLA.
http://www.youngscot.org/info/450-getting-involved-in-the-glasgow-2014-games/
Find out how and where you can get involved, and more about what the Scottish Government, our agencies and partners are doing at: www.legacy2014.co.uk
Apply to be part of legacy 2014 at: www.legacy2014.co.uk/be-part-of-it
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Track our progress at: scotland.gov.uk/AssessingLegacy2014
Social Media
This supports schools and four community media clusters across Scotland to increase their digital and social media skills to follow the Queen’s Baton Relay
http://digitalcommonwealth.co.uk/
Find out how and where you can get involved, and more about what the Scottish Government, our agencies and partners are doing at: www.legacy2014.co.uk
Apply to be part of legacy 2014 at: www.legacy2014.co.uk/be-part-of-it
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Track our progress at: scotland.gov.uk/AssessingLegacy2014
Ceremonies
Using the Queen’s Baton Relay and the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Games as innovative platforms for promoting and celebrating Scotland’s culture – within Scotland, the Commonwealth and wider.
http://www.glasgow2014.com/about-us/culture-and-ceremonies/ceremonies
Find out how and where you can get involved, and more about what the Scottish Government, our agencies and partners are doing at: www.legacy2014.co.uk
Apply to be part of legacy 2014 at: www.legacy2014.co.uk/be-part-of-it
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Track our progress at: scotland.gov.uk/AssessingLegacy2014
Queen’s Baton Relay
Using the Queen’s Baton Relay and the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Games as innovative platforms and celebrating Scotland’s culture – within Scotland’s culture – within Scotland, the Commonwealth and wider.
http://www.glasgow2014.com/queens-baton-relay
Find out how and where you can get involved, and more about what the Scottish Government, our agencies and partners are doing at: www.legacy2014.co.uk
Apply to be part of legacy 2014 at: www.legacy2014.co.uk/be-part-of-it
Follow us: @legacy2014scot
Track our progress at: scotland.gov.uk/AssessingLegacy2014
Dance
A celebration of dance bringing together professional and amateur dancers of all ages to perform in public spaces in our towns, villages and cities across the country.
http://www.getscotlanddancing.org/
Find out how and where you can get involved, and more about what the Scottish Government, our agencies and partners are doing at: www.legacy2014.co.uk
Apply to be part of legacy 2014 at: www.legacy2014.co.uk/be-part-of-it
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Track our progress at: scotland.gov.uk/AssessingLegacy2014
Lottery Grants
Lottery grants of up to £10,000 to help sports, arts, community and heritage organisations mark the arrival of the Games by holding and array of community focussed events, including those with a cultural focus to celebrate the people, places and culture of the Commonwealth.
http://www.celebrateit.org.uk/
Find out how and where you can get involved, and more about what the Scottish Government, our agencies and partners are doing at: www.legacy2014.co.uk
Apply to be part of legacy 2014 at: www.legacy2014.co.uk/be-part-of-it
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Music
Discover new music all over the UK.
http://www.newmusicbiennial.com/
Find out how and where you can get involved, and more about what the Scottish Government, our agencies and partners are doing at: www.legacy2014.co.uk
Apply to be part of legacy 2014 at: www.legacy2014.co.uk/be-part-of-it
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Singing
Singing is fun! Everyone can do it and it makes you feel good. Get singing with the UK’s Big Big Singing Project – sing in the shower, join a choir, start your own choir or learn songs from around the Commonwealth. Every note helps us celebrate the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. (Part of the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme.)
Find out how and where you can get involved, and more about what the Scottish Government, our agencies and partners are doing at: www.legacy2014.co.uk
Apply to be part of legacy 2014 at: www.legacy2014.co.uk/be-part-of-it
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A Cultural Celebration For All Of Scotland.
A nationwide celebration that will play a central role in how Scotland hosts and welcomes the Games. Culture 2014 is the Scotland-wide cultural countdown to the Games and after, while Festival 2014 will transform the host city from 19 July to 3 August 2014.
http://www.glasgow2014.com/culture
Find out how and where you can get involved, and more about what the Scottish Government, our agencies and partners are doing at: www.legacy2014.co.uk
Apply to be part of legacy 2014 at: www.legacy2014.co.uk/be-part-of-it
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Track our progress at: scotland.gov.uk/AssessingLegacy2014
Game On!
Explore the range of sporting events taking place at Glasgow 2014.
http://www.gameonscotland.org/
Find out how and where you can get involved, and more about what the Scottish Government, our agencies and partners are doing at: www.legacy2014.co.uk
Apply to be part of legacy 2014 at: www.legacy2014.co.uk/be-part-of-it
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Track our progress at: scotland.gov.uk/AssessingLegacy2014
Mytime Active’s Community Investment Fund
This grant is aimed at supporting local people, clubs and community organisations who want to increase participation in sport and/or physical activity, run events, build capacity, improve access and improve the health prospects of their community.
Local clubs, groups and organisations are invited to apply to our 2013/14 Community Investment Fund. Grants will be awarded up to the value of £1,000.
www.mytimeactive.co.uk
Find out how and where you can get involved, and more about what the Scottish Government, our agencies and partners are doing at: www.legacy2014.co.uk
Apply to be part of legacy 2014 at: www.legacy2014.co.uk/be-part-of-it
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Track our progress at: scotland.gov.uk/AssessingLegacy2014
2014 Communities
2014 Communities offers grants of between £300 and £2,000 to encourage more people to take part in physical activity. There are no deadlines and applications can be submitted at any time.
http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/prog_2014_communities
Find out how and where you can get involved, and more about what the Scottish Government, our agencies and partners are doing at: www.legacy2014.co.uk
Apply to be part of legacy 2014 at: www.legacy2014.co.uk/be-part-of-it
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Active Places Fund
The Legacy 2014 Active Places Fund supports the Scottish Government’s legacy ambitions to encourage more people to be active and take part in sport. Physical activity can help people become healthier and fitter. The Fund will do this by providing funding for capital projects which create or improve places in local communities where people can go to get active. Grants of between £10,000 and £100,000 are available for a very wide range of community-led projects such as new bike or skate parks, outdoor adventure facilities, walking routes, or new projects within school estates. (For projects that require funding of less than £10,000 please apply to Awards for All.) In total, £10 million is available until 2015.
http://www.sportscotland.org.uk/about_us/what_we_do/places/invest/legacy_2014_active_places_fund/legacy_2014_active_places_fund/
Find out how and where you can get involved, and more about what the Scottish Government, our agencies and partners are doing at: www.legacy2014.co.uk
Apply to be part of legacy 2014 at: www.legacy2014.co.uk/be-part-of-it
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Community Sports Hubs
Community sport hubs are based in local facilities such as sport centres, community centres, club pavilions, the natural environment and/or schools, and will bring local people together and provide a home for local clubs and sports organisations.
http://www.sportscotland.org.uk/clubs/community_sport_hubs/
Find out how and where you can get involved, and more about what the Scottish Government, our agencies and partners are doing at: www.legacy2014.co.uk
Apply to be part of legacy 2014 at: www.legacy2014.co.uk/be-part-of-it
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Legacy 2014
The Commonwealth Games in 2014 will be a spectacular display of world-class sporting success. But it’s not just about the elite athletes. It’s about you. Whether you’ve taken up cycling, won a Games-related contract, or gained from training or an apprenticeship, this is a golden opportunity for Scotland. Legacy 2014 is our chance to ensure that all of Scotland benefits from the Games.
http://www.legacy2014.co.uk/
Find out how and where you can get involved, and more about what the Scottish Government, our agencies and partners are doing at: www.legacy2014.co.uk
Apply to be part of legacy 2014 at: www.legacy2014.co.uk/be-part-of-it
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Rambling
Walking, strolling or rambling is easy to build into your everyday routine. Take 30 is the Ramblers Scotland guide to walking for health and fitness.
http://www.take30.co.uk/
Find out how and where you can get involved, and more about what the Scottish Government, our agencies and partners are doing at: www.legacy2014.co.uk
Apply to be part of legacy 2014 at: www.legacy2014.co.uk/be-part-of-it
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Active Scotland
Looking for ways to get active, but not sure where to start? Active Scotland is here to get you going. Put your postcode or town in the search box and we’ll find activities close to home, from easy to extreme.
http://www.activescotland.org.uk/
Find out how and where you can get involved, and more about what the Scottish Government, our agencies and partners are doing at: www.legacy2014.co.uk
Apply to be part of legacy 2014 at: www.legacy2014.co.uk/be-part-of-it
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Take Life On
Take life on, one step at a time. Helping you to find activities around Scotland to promote a healthy lifestyle.
http://www.takelifeon.co.uk/
Find out how and where you can get involved, and more about what the Scottish Government, our agencies and partners are doing at: www.legacy2014.co.uk
Apply to be part of legacy 2014 at: www.legacy2014.co.uk/be-part-of-it
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Volunteering
The Volunteer Support Pot is a discretionary fund which is available to help both Clyde-siders and Ceremonies volunteers fulfil their once in a life-time volunteering role at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.
http://www.volunteerscotland.net/volunteersupportpot/volunteer-support-pot/
Find out how and where you can get involved, and more about what the Scottish Government, our agencies and partners are doing at: www.legacy2014.co.uk
Apply to be part of legacy 2014 at: www.legacy2014.co.uk/be-part-of-it
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Young Persons’ Fund
If you’re aged 16 to 24, unemployed and resident in Scotland, Scotland’s Best – part of the Scottish Government’s £5m Legacy 2014 Young Persons’ Fund – could be for you.
www.myworldofwork.co.uk/content/scotlands-best
Find out how and where you can get involved, and more about what the Scottish Government, our agencies and partners are doing at: www.legacy2014.co.uk
Apply to be part of legacy 2014 at: www.legacy2014.co.uk/be-part-of-it
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