Youth Charter 2012 Games Executive Summary

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CONTENTSFOREWORD

BACKGROUND AND INTRODUCTION

LEGACY BACKGROUND SOCIAL CONTEXT

SECTION 1: EDUCATION

SECTION 2: HEALTH & PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

SECTION 3: SOCIAL ORDER

SECTION 4: ENVIRONMENT

SECTION 5: VOCATION, TRAINING, EMPLOYMENT AND ENTERPRISE

SECTION 6: THE FUTURE

YOUTH CHARTER KEY RECOMMENDATIONS CONCLUSION

YOUTH CHARTER ADVOCATES

YOUTH CHARTER ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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The 2012 Olympic and Paralym-pic Games were momentous occasions in the lives of many Britons and citizens worldwide. As President of the Interna-tional Paralympic Committee, I was privileged to preside over the most successful Paralympic Games to date. The legacy of these games has since occu-pied the social, cultural and po-litical institutions as we aim to inspire a generation.The Youth Charter was born out of a northern bidding and hosting aspiration of Olympic and Commonwealth dreams. The social issues surrounding young people and communities saw the Youth Charter, in its in-fancy come of age as part of the highly successful 2002 Com-monwealth Games. The lega-cy of those games, the Youth Charter’s Citizenship in Action

programme, saw ten communi-ties in Britain and ten communi-ties in the Commonwealth ben-efit from sporting, artistic and cultural programmes and pro-jects that would contribute to the now well established sport for social and human develop-ment and peace movement.As a global citizen committed to social justice, equality and inclusion I am aware of the all important right of responsibility in the role that sport and cultur-al activity can play in the devel-opment of young lives.The Youth Charter’s Legacy Manifesto is an important con-tribution to the legacy debate in promoting community cohesion through tolerance, understand-ing and cooperation in a global climate of uncertainty. I have witnessed the Youth Charter’s work on many occasions and believe in its 20th year, it has a valuable contribution to make through its key themes of ed-ucation, health social and civ-il order, the environment and vocation training, employment and enterprise.The Youth Charter’s Legacy Manifesto recommendations re-flect the Olympic and Paralym-pic values and I firmly believe they should be taken as seri-

ously as the young people and communities that have been consulted. The recommenda-tions are bold, commonsense and real. I believe they would contribute greatly to the con-tinued legacy effort and above all ensure that future genera-tions of young people have an opportunity to benefit from the historic and memorable 2012 Games.

FOREWORDSir Philip Craven MBE, President International Paralympic Committee, Member International Olympic Committee.

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Over the last 20 years the Youth Charter has pioneered the role that sport can play in the social and human development of disaffected young people from disadvantaged communities.

The Youth Charter’s work has actively developed social inclusion pro-grammes and sports projects that assist regeneration and renewal with community cohesion and the wider social and cultural benefits it brings.

The Youth Charter’s work began in Hulme and Moss Side, Manches-ter, where its legacy, projects and programmes helped establish the sport social and human development for peace movement that now promotes the healthy and physical lifestyle benefits in communities lo-cally, nationally and internationally.

Primarily the organisation develops and deploys social research, support, expertise, advocacy pro-grammes, projects and tools to nurture young people and communities to be more life skill enabled and participation empowered to maximize their life potential through sporting and cultural integra-tion.

The Youth Charter is a UK registered charity and UN accredited NGO that champions social inclu-sion and community cohesion through sport.

INTRODUCTIONBACKGROUND &

Geoff Thompson MBE, FRSA, Executive Chair, Youth Charter

“You can’t wait for someone else to do legacy, you’ve got to take a bit of responsibility for yourself.”

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Since the Paralympic flame went out last year culminating on a memorable Olympic and Paralym-pic Games that will have impacted on the lives of millions of citizens of Britain in some way, shape or form a year on, the challenge is ‘how can we engage, motivate and inspire our children and young people in meaningful and sustainable cultural activity?’.

Whilst there are now many valuable and worthwhile legacy initiatives taking place, we still have an uncomfortable and uneasy number of children and young people who do not benefit from the role that sport and the arts can play in enriching their lives. Ongoing government statistics present a worrying trend with a quarter of a million pupils still choosing not to go to school; half a million young people not in education, employment or training (NEETS) and for the million that did go to school and get a qualification, their work career ambitions are simply an arrested development of potential.

SOCIAL CONTEXTLEGACY BACKGROUND


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MISSION:

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Helping young people to be fit for life.

Be a team player in society through sporting and social development.

Equip, enable and empower young people to maximize their life potential through cultural integra-tion, physical and mental fitness.

Positively deliver peaceful, meaningful and sustainable sporting access activity for the social de-velopment and well being of all young people and their communities.

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OUR VALUES:• Positive happiness and fulfilment through active human and social engagement

• Positive Mental and physical fitness for all

• Commitment to excellence and collaboration for all young people and communities

• Dignity, Honesty, Integrity and Respect of self and others in all that we do

1. HEALTH AND FITNESS

2. EDUCATION

3. SOCIAL ORDER

4. ENVIRONMENT

5. VOCATION, TRAINING, EMPLOYMENT & ENTERPRISE

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DEVELOPMENT GOALS THE YOUTH CHARTER


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VISION:

“We are going to need to create space outside the school timetable for sport and recognise the worth of physical education teachers in the same way as we did when we needed to improve the quality of maths and science teachers.”

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ISSUE: The educational attendance, attainment, behav-iour and performance of all learning abilities, po-tential and educational setting both formal and informal can be greatly enhanced and improved with a cultural offer of sporting, physical and educational activity. This offer also needs to be consistent and delivered within a pre, during and post school environment in school and beyond the school gate. The benefits of a coordinated and integrated school sport, physical activity and cultural offer cannot be under estimated and is crucial in establishing the personal, so-cial, educational and human development in the

behaviour and performance of pupils and teach-ing professionals alike.

School life is said to be the best years of our lives but for many this simply is not the case, and this is reflected in the attendance, behav-iour and ultimate performance of pupils:

A. UK Attendance (absence rates):

During the autumn 2011 and spring 2012 terms there were:

• 120,000 primary school pupils; and

• 200,000 secondary school pupils;

who were persistently absent for more than 15% of the lessons.

B. Behaviour (exclusions rates):

During the 2011-12 Academic there was:

• 690 primary pupils permanently excluded (13% increase);

• 4,390 secondary school pupils were per-manently excluded (an increase of 20 pupils);

The UN’s second Millennium Development Goal (MDG’s) is to achieve universal primary educa-tion by 2015. However, the latest global primary school enrolment rate (2009), show that:

• 10% of primary school-age children are not enrolled at school;

This varies from 23% in Sub-Saharan Africa to 4% in North America and Western Europe.

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Recommendation: Mandatory access to 5 hours of physical activity every week at school as part of cross curriculum learning of numeracy, literacy, citizenship PSHE and humanities.

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“There is a need for radical reform and I am calling for more money. There needs to be a total commitment to ensuring a sports participation legacy that has to focus on schools and clubs... We have tens of thou-

sands of kids watching great moments, which will live with them forever. The government should step up to the mark.”

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“Provide opportunities for pupils to engage in competitive sports and activities and help pupils to lead healthy and active lifestyles

increased dramatically the amount of sport children play at school... to

combat childhood obesity”- David Cameron -

ISSUE:With healthy activity and behavioural lifestyle character forming habits now being developed, the confidence, self esteem and social inter-per-sonal interaction that is developed as a result, a natural interest in sport, art or cultural activity can be established.

The opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics showcased the best of British. With a section of the proceedings designated to cele-brating the NHS. In a speech given by Jeremy Hunt, the Secretary of State for Health suggests that “if the Olympics were enriched by the NHS, so too can the NHS learn from the Olympics?”.

Not only can these two industries of sport and health learn from one another, they should be able to work together in an integrated and cohe-sive manner to tackle problems that are facing both industries.

In the UK the number of young people requiring hospital treatment for problems complicated by being overweight has increased from:

• 872 in 2000; to • nearly 4,000 in 2009.

Pupils measured as overweight or obese in pri-mary schools has seen a:

• 2.2% increase, from 31.7% in 2006-07 to 33.9% 2011-12 for year 6 pupils;

• 11% increase from the reception cohort of 2006-07 (22.9%) to the year 6 cohort of 2011-12 (33.9%)

The most obese 11-year-old child in England in 2011-12 was from Manchester, he weighed 23 stone 11lb and was just 4ft 4 inches tall. His weight was four times greater than the 6st an 11-year-old of his age and height should weigh. Whilst in Bolton an 11-year-old girl was meas-ured weighing 22 stone and 11lb.


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Recommendation: The Youth Charter recommends a 5-hour provision of school, club and community sport for children and young people per week.

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“Sport at school is vital to children not only for progressing good health but to give them the building blocks they need”

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Globally there is a 22 year gap in Life Expectancy from Commonwealth Countries ranked at having ‘Low’ Human Development and Commonwealth Countries ranked as having ‘Very High’ Human Development. The Commonwealth Countries with highest and lowest Life Expectancy are:

• 81.8 years for Australians; and • 47.4 years for people living Sierra Leone.

Whilst in South Africa the Life Expectancy has fallen nearly five years from:

• 56.9 years in 1980; to • 52.2 years in 2010.

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SOCIAL ORDERSECTION 3

VISION:

“For sport to address the preven-tion of anti social behaviour and

crime related activity, then we must provide a social and economic

argument and see more invested on our streets for those who have nothing to do, nowhere to go and

no one to show them…”- Geoff Thompson -

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With educational disaffection, exclusion and ex-pulsion identified as a pathway to anti-social, gang related and extreme behaviour in young people, the need for a more coordinated effort of the existing interventions must be more effective working between National Governing Bodies, third sector, and local and voluntary community groups and/or organisations.

Since 2005 - the year that the London 2012 Games were won - there have been:

• 154 teenagers murdered in London;

• the 2011 summer riots which saw unprec-edented civil disorder and riots which began in London and spread to other cities across Eng-land; and

• A young man was murdered during a gang fight in the Olympic Westfield Shopping Centre, a few weeks before the London 2012 Opening Ceremony, whilst IOC delegates visit-ed the Olympic Village. An 18-year-old man from east London has been charged with his murder, and seven other young men aged 18 to 25 have been charged with violent disorder.

• Meridian Square in Stratford, right next the Olympic Village is the UK’s top crime spot. There were 3,440 crimes recorded in the 18 months, which was nearly 1,000 crimes more than the post code with the next highest crime. London had six out to the top most crime ridden postcode areas in the country.

The following statistics show the national youth crime rates in 2011-12:

• 62,743 young people in England were given Youth Offending Team supervision orders;

• 4,614 young people aged 10 to 17 were given custodial sentences in the England.

The adult prison population in England and Wales has seen a:

• 27% increase between 2001 (67,056) and 2010 (85,002);

In the 21st Century a growing climate of uncer-tainty with social, cultural, economic and envi-ronment factors are all having an impact on the social and civil order around the world.

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Recommendation: The International Olympic Truce Foundation and the International Olympic Truce Centre should be used as part of a truce and peace effort in the areas and communities where gang related activity, postcode barriers and the radicalisation of young people leads to community and societal tensions.

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“Representing peace, unity and friendship, the Flame will be carried by 8,000 inspirational Torchbearers during the Olympic Torch Relay. The

London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay will focus on the nation’s youth with a large percentage of the torchbearers being 18 years and under.”

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THE ENVIRONMENTSECTION 4

VISION:

“Environmental work has an impor-tant role within the Olympic Move-

ment. The first organizer to be-come involved in the environment from an Olympic Games perspec-tive was the organizing committee in Lillehammer in 1994. The follow-ing year, in 1995, the International Olympic Committee created a spe-cial Sport and Environment Com-mission. Today the Commission is very active and the environment is a top priority in the review of Olym-

pic candidate cities.”

- Gunilla Lindberg, member of the International Olympic Committee -

ISSUE:Without a safe and healthy environment in which to play, develop and grow within a life enhancing benefit of cultural activity, a climate of disaffec-tion, isolation and fear can greatly reduce the participation potential and policy aspiration pro-posed. In the year of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games the UK experienced its second wettest year on record, which caused disruption up and down the country. Four of the five wettest years have been recorded in the last 12 years.

Global Warming is affecting the lives of young

people in their everyday environment. As a re-sult, they will have to deal with the consequenc-es of the changing climate in which they live. Life style, attitudes and behaviors will also be affect-ed. A more coordinated and integrated approach of existing projects that link educational curricu-lum learning with carbon friendly activity would be of greater benefit as part of a multi-agency stakeholder and community based approach.

The World Bank has warned that Climate Change will hit the world’s poorest people hard-est pushing millions back into poverty. World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim, said:

“The scientists tell us that if the world warms by 2 degrees Centigrade – warming which may be reached in 20 to 30 years – that will cause widespread food shortages, unprecedented heat-waves, and more intense cyclones. In the near-term, climate change – which is already un-folding – could batter the slums even more and greatly harm the lives and hopes of individuals and families who have had little hand in raising the Earth’s temperature.”

There is no doubt that if we can produce energy supplies with minimal waste so Oceans, Land and Atmosphere to improve our health and well being, as well as creating a lasting legacy for all. Cycle to school schemes would encourage pupils to get fit as well as reduce carbon emis-sions;

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Recommendation: Legacy Zones ™

These would operate as spaces for social and human development programmes and projects and with all the relevant agencies signing up to deliver one coordinated effort.

A better coordinated and integrated approach of existing projects that bring together educational curriculum learning with carbon friendly enrichment projects that are sustainable through public/private sector investment and community based social enterprise.

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“The Olympics gives politicians the catalyst they need to start tackling this invisible killer which is more serious than any public health problem other than smoking...Stepping up measures to tackle harmful air pollu-tion should be the major component of the environmental legacy of the

Games that the government and the Mayor want to secure.”

- Author Simon Moore -

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VOCATION, TRAINING, EMPLOYMENT & ENTERPRISE

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VISION:

“We need to make the most of this magic moment and harness the enthusiasm for sport and volun-

teering that the Games has gener-ated. That’s why the Join In Local Sport project is so important, so

that we bring London 2012 back to the place it begins for every great champion: their local sports club

and the great volunteers who make it all possible.”

- David Cameron -

ISSUE:During the London 2012 Games there were:

• 1,027,000 young people aged 16 to 24 not in education, employment or training (NEET);

This represented:

• 17% of young people aged 16 to 24; and • 19.6% for 19 to 24-year-olds.

Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion the employment figures for July 2013 show:• 1,348,000 (18.6%) young people are workless (not employment, full-time education or training).In the Global Employment Trends for Youth

2013: A Generation at Risk report the Interna-tional Labour Organization (ILO) has listed the following challenges facing the world’s young people as they try to find they way in the global economy:

• It is not easy to be young in the labour market today;• Skills mismatch is adding to the youth employment crisis;• In developing regions, where 90% of the global youth population lives, stable, quality em-ployment is especially lacking; and• In advanced economies long-term unem-ployment has arrived as an unexpected tax on the current generation of youth.

The ILO report recommendations are to:

• Invest in education and training to enhance employability and facilitate the school-to-work transition.

• Improve labor market integration of young people through targeted labor market poli-cies.

• Provide career options to young people by supporting entrepreneurship and self-em-ployment.

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Recommendation: The establishment of an Antz Junction national legacy apprenticeship. This will provide a national vocation and training programme that can be delivered in every region and community and linked to local legacy projects, programmes and initiatives.

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“A way to involve younger kids as volunteers for a more inter-genera-tional and legacy sustainable approach. There is a huge shortage of

coaches in the Olympic and Paralympic sports, at the lower level, and in schools, and it is something we must address over the next two years

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THE FUTURE SECTION 6

The 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games pledge was to ‘Inspire a Generation’ to the so-cial, cultural and healthy lifestyle benefits it can provide in the classroom, the playground and beyond the school gate. The 2012 Youth Char-ter Legacy Manifesto launched after the 2011 riots called for ‘Access for All’ via a government e-petition, which would see free entry to sport & leisure facilities for under 18s throughout the country – as is the case for museums and art galleries. Whilst there are many worthwhile leg-acy activities now in place, they are participa-tion targeted in their outputs and limited in their signposting outcomes. This saw limited interest in bringing about a debate in the House of Com-mons that would have hopefully lead to a dis-cussion and decision on what an ‘Access for All’ offer would look like and the significant social, cultural and economic benefits that could be re-alised in order to help create a society truly fit for living life to its full potential.

Glasgow 2014 is the most exciting host city to date. At present there is comprehensive and im-pressive legacy effort being delivered alongside the games delivery. The challenges are as great as the opportunities with concerns with regards to a “universally inclusive legacy benefit” to the more marginalised young people and communi-ties of Glasgow and the Commonwealth. With UNICEF named as the Games official charity, the potential of a global legacy benefit is signif-icant. However, the recent launch of the ‘Youth Sports Charter’ at the Commonwealth Sports Development Conference this year, with the ex-isting “Youth Charter” 20-year presence in Scot-land and the Commonwealth, the potential for duplicity of effort, can result. In whatever event, the Glasgow 2014 games and the legacy poten-tial already being undertaken will present the best opportunity yet in demonstrating the ability of the past, present and future efforts of working together.

HOW THE YOUTH CHARTER CAN HELP DELIVER A SOCIETY FIT FOR SUCCESS

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Recommendations:The ‘2012 Games’ Legacy Report calls for a ‘Legacy Access for All’. This key point is a carefully considered plan that is as simple as it is challenging in its delivery. However, it is a bold legacy step in the right direc-tion. ‘Legacy Access for All’ will be delivered in three phases:

1. Engage every school with the learning, behaviour and attainment opportunity through our 17 year personal and social development programme Gameswise. In the Classroom and in the school playground the role of cultural activity in attendance, attainment, behaviour and performance will be delivered.

2. Motivate, equip, train and empower, 2012 social coaches from the 1 million unemployed young peo-ple who have life experience, empathy, language, culture and experience in the challenges and opportunities life can present them with. This will ensure that the participation is sustained and ongoing with a new gener-ation of young future leaders.

3. Create and sustain a network of social centres of excellence delivered as part of a unique social con-sortia of private, public and third sector agencies, who will deliver a one stop shop of cultural activity vocation, training, employment and enterprise.

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CONCLUSIONS:YOUTH CHARTERThe above approach provides a truly integrated legacy opportunity for all. It also provides a collaborative delivery of the current government’s Big Society and Localism agenda. More importantly, it gives the locally developed multi-stakeholder networks real and sustainable potential with the Local Authority Commissioning to communities, through youth and sport facilities. The short, mid and long-term viability of ‘Legacy Access for All’ will be the legacy bond developed over the last 10 years. Designed to attract public, private, donor, institution and individual contributions, the bond will be used to provide a centrally administered fund that can see donations used in a flexible and targeted way. The bond provides a short, mid and long-term sus-tainability of approach that will allow inter-community neighbourhood and city exchange of ideas, trends, issues, knowledge and experience in a whole society local and global approach.

The opportunity for Legacy Access for All is achievable and can be realised with one all important recognition of fact: if 10% of the collective and coordinated effort that was used to deliver last year’s memorable and historic games, is utilised as a legacy and benefit of young people, then the bid pledges, host game delivery and above all the bid legacy of Inspire a Generation can truly be achieved by uniting inner city, suburban and rural communities to be more life skill equipped, life active enabled and participation empowered for life.

Recommendation: A global legacy framework and development goal commitment should be identified in all future bid and host cities.

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ADVOCATES:YOUTH CHARTER

“I first became involved with Youth Charter as a teenager because I felt passionately that everyone should have a chance sport like I had, regardless of their background. Seeing Geoff’s passion for nurturing youngsters through sport, the arts and other structured activity was very inspiring and I was humbled to visit some of the projects based in the north west. Since I first became involved the charity has gone global, using sport as a bridge to bringing even the most socially challenged youngsters back onto a positive path. It has been a privilege to watch the charity grow and succeed, Geoff’s passion never fails and his team at YC continue to work hard for the youth of the world. When an Olympic and Paralympic Games comes to an end and you hear the words “I call upon the youth of the world to pledge to gather again in four years time...” I always think of YC because the young people the charity reaches out to are always far more talented than their communities have often admitted to. Thanks to the guidance of YC they can have a future and a bright one too. Congrats to Geoff and the team, here’s to the next 20 years!”

Dame Sarah Storey, YC Ambassador

“I came to know the Youth Charter through my colleague, Mr Piet du Plooy. It is the best thing that can happen in any Country taking into account the problems our Youth is facing nowadays. We together with the Sport Commission took the Youth Charter very seriously and we approached the Ministry of Youth, National service, Sport and Culture to incorporate it into their programmes. I hope that the Youth Charter can be expanded to as many Countries as possible.” Agnes Tjongarero, NNOC President, Namibia

My heartfelt congratulations to you for your extraordinary stewardship of the Youth Charter for over twenty wonderful years. You have provided opportunities for young people to understand the world nearby and beyond the geographic borders of our nations. These young people now see the world of possibilities that await when an opportunity to achieve is offered. I am proud to have been there at the start!

Anita Defrantz, President /Foundation Chair, IOC Women and Sport Commission

I have had the unique perspective to witness the work of the Youth Charter within its birth, develop-ment and coming of age. I was to witness the Youth Charter’s growth and impact in the UK and in South Africa. One of the highlights of the may Youth Charter programme initiatives was the “Spirit of the Streets Tour of South Africa”, which followed Manchester’s highly successful 2002 Common-wealth Games. I had the privilege of hosting the Tour Group with fellow IOC Honorary Member, Dame Mary Glen Haig and witness the development and growth of young people who had been exposed to travel and the social and cultural diversity of the new South Africa.

Sam Ramsamy, IOC Member

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The Youth Charter ‘2012 Games Legacy Report’ has been produced as part of the three-year consultation process with the public, private, voluntary and third sectors, and young people and their communities. The Youth Charter would like to acknowledge and thank the following organisations for their contribution to the YC 2012 Games Legacy Report:

Muhammad Ali Institute, British Council, University of Salford, The Muhammad Ali Centre, The University of Louisville,In-ternational Slavery Museum, Leasowe Community Homes, Urbeatz, Anthony Walker Foundation, BHR, USA Embassy, Youth and communities from Greater Manchester, Merseyside, London, Glasgow, and Louisville, USA, Pupils from: Malbank School and Sixth Form College, St Joseph’s RC Primary School, Primrose Hill Primary School, Bolton School, Walkden High School, Bodysyke, St Mary’s Primary School Oasis MediaCityUK, Sale High School,Social Enterprises, Antz Junction, The Rt Hon John Bercow MP, Mr Speaker of the House of Commons, University of Salford, Parliamentary Education service workshop, Malbank School, Oasis MediaCityUK, Sale High School, 21st Century Legacy, Evolve siA&M Training, North Glasgow College, Scottish Badminton, Scottish Squash, Scottish Orienteering, Sported, Sports Leaders UK, Scottish Rowing, Scottish Judo, Play Scotland, Later Learning, Glasgow Council on Alcohol, FARE, GHA, GGC, Scottish Football Association, Royal Yachting Association, Working on Wheels, Reach Out Scotland, Scottish Gymnastics, Triathlon Scotland, Skills Development Scotland, Scottish Sports Future’s, Alloa Athletic FC, Shell Twilight Basketball, Volunteer Glasgow, Urban Fox, Active Schools, Scottish Marriage Care, Table Tennis Scotland/Drumchapel Table Tennis Club, Glasgow Life, 2014 Scottish Office, SenScot, Scottish Sport Development Conference, Volunteer Glasgow, Kelvin College, Youth Scotland, Street Games, NHS, Glasgow Council of Voluntary Services, Active East,University of Salford, University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University, University of Liverpool, Liverpool Hope University , University of Roehampton, Sport England, UK Sport, Premier League, MCFC City in the Community, Disability Forum, Sport Scotland, Bolton Wanderers FC, Lawn Tennis Association, British Judo Association, Scottish Rugby Union, Manchester City Council, Liverpool City Council, London Assembly: Greater London Authority, Glasgow City Council, HM Treasury, Department of Culture, Media & Sport, The Department for Education, Department for Work & Pensions, Education Select Committee, School Sport following London 2012, Youth Select Committee: The role of the education system and the national curriculum in equipping young people with the skills for later life. House of Lords, The Committee on Olympic and Paralympic Legacy, Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation, CTO, Guateng Government, South Africa.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSYOUTH CHARTER

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Peter Rayment, Dr Mick Hides, Marcus Vinton, Rik Cheetham, Morley Myers, Tom McLaren, Theo Amu, Martin Ain-scough and Manchester Metropolitan University for their assistance in the development and production of this report.


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OUR PHILOSOPHY:YOUTH CHARTER

“Sport is an order of chivalry, a code of ethics and aesthetics, recruit-ing its members from all classes and all peoples. Sport is a truce, in an era of antagonisms and conflicts, it is the respite of the Gods in which fair competition ends in respect and friendship (Olympism). Sport is education, the truest form of education, that of character. Sport is cul-ture because it enhances life and, most importantly, does so for those who usually have the least opportunity to feast on it.”

Rene Maheu, Former Director of UNESCO


Other documents produced by the Youth Charter include:

• Legacy Manifesto 2011• Youth Charter Muhammad Ali Scholars Report 2010 • Commonwealth “12” Report• Liverpool Report 2009• Manchester “12” Report • Rugbywise “12” Report• Youth Charter Issue Document 2003• Youth Charter South Africa Report• Youth Charter 5 Year Report• Sport as a Contributor to Social Regeneration• Youth Charter Quadrennial Report

Honorary Life PresidentDame Mary Glen Haig DBE

Vice PresidentsLord Ousley, Sir Rodney Walker, Clive Lloyd CBE, Sir Steve Redgrave CBE , Sir Bobby Charlton CBE

Executive ChairmanGeoff Thompson MBE FRSA

Chair of TrusteesDavid Allen OBE

TrusteesHolly Bellingham, Capt. Jim Fox OBE, Pearly Gates, Alan Simpson LLB Hons

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Marcus AdamNeil Adams MBE Sir Ben Ainslie CBERob Andrew MBE Mike Atherton OBE Kriss Akabussi MBE Lord Archer Chris Ballieu MBE Jeremy Bates Jamie Baulch Bill Beaumont OBE David Beckham OBE Chris Boardman MBE Lorna Boothe Toby Box Julia Bracewell OBE Kevin Cadle Darren Campbell MBE Pat Cash Gill Clark MBE Ben Challenger Sir Bobby Charlton CBE Linford Christie OBE David Coleman OBE Gary Connolly Sir Henry Cooper MBE Lord Cowdrey John Crawley Mark Croasdale Sharron Davies MBE Anita Defrantz Phil De Glanville Rob Denmark Lisa Dermott Karen Dixon Tony Dobbin Sandra Douglas Tony Doyle MBE Paula Dunn Thomas Richard Dunwoody Tracy Edwards MBE Mike England Faroukh Engineer Chris EubankNicola Fairbrother Nick Faldo MBE John Fashanu Sir Alex Ferguson CBE Janice FrancisRichard Fox MBE

Kristina Gifford Ryan Giggs OBEEugene Gilkes Dame Mary Glen Haig CBEDuncan Goodhew MBE Sally Gunnell MBE Jane Hall Susan Hampshire OBE Gary HardingesEddie Hemmings Tim Henman CBE Kate Hoey MP Dame Kelly Holmes Robert Howley Paul InceColin Jackson CBE David Johnson Simon Jackson MBE Mary KingSir Robin Knox Johnston Sir Eddie Kulukundis OBE Sonia Lawrence Rob LeeDenise Lewis OBE Lennox Lewis CBE Clive Lloyd CBE Lisa LomasHelen Lonsdale Devon Malcolm Gary Mason Dianne Modhal drian Moorhouse MBE Nathan MorganDewi Morris Fiona Murtagh Ally McCoist MBE Mark McCoy John McEnroe Mike McFarlane OBE Barry McGuigan MBE Mick McManusPrince Naseem MBE Martin Offiah MBE Wayne Otto OBE John Parrot MBE Alan Pascoe MBE Lenny PaulStuart PearceMary Peters CBEKaren Pickering MBE

Sir Mathew Pinsett MBENicky PiperSir Steven Redgrave CBEDerek RedmondAnnika ReederSir Craig ReedieCyrille Regis MBEMark RowlandTessa Sanderson OBEGreg Searle MBEJon Searle MBETeddy SherringhamJudy Simpson OBELynn SimpsonJane Sixsmith MBEPhyllis SmithSarah Springman OBEIan StarkRay StevensAthole StillDame Sarah Storey DBEIwan Thomas MBENeil Thomas MBEDame Tanni Grey Thompson DBEDennis TueartTerry VenablesLee WestwoodFatima Whitbread MBEDavid Wilkie MBEJames WilliamsPaul Zetter CBEDutch Soccer Squad England Rugby Squad England Soccer Squad Ghanaian Under 17 Soccer Squad South African Soccer Squad South African Rugby Squad Lancashire County Cricket Club Manchester United Football Club

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Youth Charter 2012 Games Executive Summary