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Volunteer with two years to go
Posted on 27/07/10
Today marks exactly Two Years to Go until the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Today marks exactly Two Years to Go until the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games and organisers are calling on us to start planning their Games to ensure we don’t miss out on this once in a lifetime event. Whether it is signing up for tickets, becoming a ‘London 2012 Games Maker’ volunteer or a ‘London Ambassador’, now is the time to start thinking about how to make the most of the summer of 2012.
Today also marks the opening of the London 2012 Volunteer Programme, seeking to recruit up to 70,000 volunteers or ‘London 2012 Games Makers’. Pre-identified people wanting to become a London 2012 Games Maker can now apply for specialist positions such as doctors, anti-doping personnel and scoreboard operators from today.
Those interested in the more numerous general volunteering positions can go to www.london2012.com/volunteering and find everything they need to help them decide if they have what it takes to be a London 2012 Games Maker. Applications for the generalist roles which include ticket checking, uniform distribution and staffing helpdesks and information points, will open on 15 September 2010.
From today people can also sign up to be a London Ambassador, to help guide the millions of visitors who will travel to London for the Games get around and enjoy a truly memorable stay in the capital. The scheme, devised by the Mayor of London, aims to recruit 8,000 London Ambassadors who will be located at key points across the city - including transport hubs, outside Games venues, and at popular visitor spots. They will be the welcoming face of the capital, providing much needed information on what to see and do, where to stay and how to get there.
Tickets for London 2012 go on sale in the spring of 2011, but people can register their interest now. Over 1.4 million people have already registered their details on www.tickets.london2012.com and they will be in the best position to apply for tickets when the ballot process opens next year. Further details on pricing and other initiatives will be announced this autumn.
With London 2012’s education programme ‘Get Set’ now reaching over 14,000 schools throughout the country; Cultural Olympiad projects up and running – culminating in the London 2012 Festival, a twelve week festival in the summer of 2012 itself; plus over 1,000 ‘Open Weekend’ events held last weekend, there are London 2012 projects and initiatives happening all over the country giving the UK public plenty of scope to plan how to get involved.