Worldwide awareness

The spotlight will be on Greenwich and its many world-class attractions.

Transport

The Olympic Delivery Authority has invested £80m in the Docklands Light Railway, which will improve services in time for the 2012 Games and beyond by increasing capacity by 50 per cent across most of the network by the end of 2010. Services on the Lewisham - bank line already have 50 per cent extra capacity

Sports legacy

Greenwich Council is actively promoting a range of sports activities and programmes using the Games to inspire local children and residents to become more active. The council is also working with a number of sports governing bodies which are holding events in Greenwich in 2012 to develop opportunities to create meaningful long-term benefits.

Community

People across the borough are already experiencing the positive benefits of Greenwich being selected as an Olympic venue - businesses, schools and local residents alike. Greenwich Council has so far earmarked £17.5m to develop initiatives leaving long-term benefits from the Games.

Some of the Games-related benefits so far include:

• Local businesses have already won contracts worth more than £16m.
• Greenwich Council has invested an extra £6.5m to upgrade sporting facilities at Thomas Tallis and Crown Woods Schools as part of the ‘Building Schools for the Future’ programme.
• A feasibility study is being carried out on the preferred site for an equestrian centre in the borough. The British Equestrian Federation has already allocated funding to the project.
• Greenwich Council has partnered with a private sector company to develop the 50m pool at Charlton Lido and to add a deep sea diving pool and gymnasium to the complex.
• This year saw all 64 primary schools in the borough participate in Sportathon – a week-long activity – raising the importance of taking part in sport among young children.
• More than 350 people from the borough have been trained as part of the London Development Agency/LOCOG pre-Games volunteering programme, Personal Best.