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The Inspire programme recognises outstanding projects and events helping deliver the Games' lasting legacy across sport, culture, education, the environment, volunteering and business opportunities.

The following are examples of projects which have been granted the Inspire mark.

Young Ambassadors
Lead organisation: Youth Sport Trust

Young Ambassadors aims to create a network of young people each year who, acting as role models, spread the Olympic and Paralympic message and ideals, increase participation and promote healthy active lifestyles among other young people.

To achieve this, their role includes some or all of the following:

• Attending one of 6 regional conferences to learn more about their role as Young Ambassadors and how they can benefit from the 2012 Games.
• Undertaking 3 challenges each year which are designed to support and enable Young Ambassadors to achieve the outcomes of their role.
• Promoting healthier lifestyles and encouraging young people to focus on wellbeing.
• Giving presentations in partnership schools based on Olympic and Paralympics ideals, and acting as advocates and role models to others.
• Providing a voice for young people to build on the excitement about staging the 2012 Games.
• Encouraging schools in their school sport partnership to organise sports festivals to share the enthusiasm for the 2012 Games.
• Acting as a role model throughout schools in their Partnerships and striving to promote the benefits of sport and the Olympic and Paralympic movements through assemblies, workshops and events.
• Fostering international links with “Dreams and Teams partner schools where applicable. There will be 1,000 Young Ambassadors each year. A minimum of Young Ambassadors are selected from each of the 450 school sport partnerships across England.

Make Your Mark Challenge 2008
Lead organisation: Enterprise Insight The Make Your Mark

Challenge is the UK’s largest free one-day national enterprise competition for schools and colleges. It kick-starts Enterprise Week and, this year, takes place on 17 November. The competition is designed for students aged 14-19 and aims to improve their enterprise capability.

Students across the country will be challenged to come up with unique products and services in response to a secret brief launched online on Monday 17 November.

Students compete in teams of four to six and are required to produce an ideas sheet, a money matters sheet, a competitors outline and then present their ideas in a dragon’s den style pitch.

Winners from schools and colleges are selected to attend the Regional finals on 28 November, hosted by the National Enterprise Business Partnership network.

The winner from each region will go on to represent their region at the National Final in London on 9 December. Schools and colleges have the chance of winning £3,000, as well as £100 in vouchers for each team member.

This year’s Make your Mark Challenge will be linked to the 2012 Games, enabling young people to develop their innovation, creativity and entrepreneurial skills.

The Make your Mark Campaign complements the ambitions and structure of the London 2012 Education programme and is being developed in close collaboration with the Education team.