London 2012 blog

Wow well, this is my first blog for LOCOG (and first blog ever I think). First, a little bit about me. I have just finished my second year at the University of Hull doing British Politics and Legislation Studies and managed to gain an internship over summer with LOCOG’s Government Relations team.

I've been here now for just over a month and am really enjoying it, a bit scary at first moving to the mother of all British cities and working/living on my own, but I have just about settled in.

Part of my job here is to head up a number of small projects - one of which was the West Midlands Drop-in last night; where we invite MPs to literally drop-in and voice any questions or queries they might have about London 2012 Games. This is also a great chance for them to meet their Regional Coordinator team and helps us to reassure MPs that the Games are not just going to benefit London but the country as a whole, with business opportunities through CompleteFor and Pre-Games Training Camps being set up all over the UK.

This was the second Drop-in  I have done. The first was the East Midlands Drop-in, which went very well with a number of MPs turning up and having their photo taken with Olympian Jonathan Edwards.

 
Our Olympian for the West Midlands Drop-in was Leon Taylor, who was a silver medallist for Diving in Athens in 2004.



Philip Dunn MP (left) and David Wright MP (right) with Olympian Leon Taylor (centre)

All in all last night's event went  really well, and as always was a brilliant chance to build relationships up with the MPs from the West Midlands.