Within our brief, we already encompass support for the UK Schools Games, being held this year in Coventry at the end of August.
In order to broaden our reach and balance our activity better, we are very keen to support a comparable cultural project at an early stage in our overall programme.
Our aim in working in partnership with LOCOG is to focus on activities which have the potential to become part of the Cultural Olympiad.
We want to enable existing organisations working in the youth, sporting and cultural/arts fields to come together to form a powerful team working with us and with LOCOG.
Over the years up to 2012, our joint energy and the Trust's funds will enable many more organisations, groups and individuals to become involved in creative expression celebrating the spirit of the Games and the values of the Cultural Olympiad.
Post 2012, we will work to ensure that funding continues and that there is a legacy that lives on celebrating friendship, solidarity and fair play.
We are working with our colleagues in LOCOG on the detailed brief for this first major cultural project which we hope to announce later in the summer.
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