{"id":6020,"date":"2014-10-24T09:04:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T09:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fitproblog.mysites.io\/legacy-partnership-revealed\/"},"modified":"2014-10-24T09:04:01","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T09:04:01","slug":"legacy-partnership-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/legacy-partnership-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"The secrets of a Legacy partnership revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Legacy 2012 charity <strong>Join In<\/strong>\u00a0aims\u00a0to place more volunteers in sport. It has announced that international sporting goods retailer <strong>INTERSPORT<\/strong>\u00a0is now its\u00a0official partner.<\/p>\n<h2>Legacy at grassroots level<\/h2>\n<p>The aim of the partnership is to\u00a0strengthen the legacy, along with relationships with grassroots sports clubs, to\u00a0make a lasting difference across the UK.<\/p>\n<p><strong>INTERSPORT<\/strong>\u00a0prides itself on understanding customers\u2019 needs. The brand concept \u2013\u00a0<strong>\u2018Sport to the people\u2019<\/strong> \u2013<strong>\u00a0recognises the role community plays in sport and physical activity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Join In&#8217;s\u00a0vision is to build a nation of active people.\u00a0<strong>The collaboration matches over\u00a0250 local leaders from Join In with their local INTERSPORT store<\/strong>\u00a0to make volunteer resources more accessible to grassroots clubs.<\/p>\n<h2>Community support<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>Minister for civil society, Brooks Newmark (MP), commented, \u201cWe believe that volunteers are at the core of thriving sporting communities, which is why we are proud to have supported Join In from the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cIt\u2019s fantastic to hear that INTERSPORT shares that vision and is committed to supporting Join In and delivering the ongoing legacy of the games.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Join In\u2019s research shows that each volunteer can facilitate up to twelve additional participants in sport. Through the partnership, Join In and Intersport will expand their engagement with local sports clubs and groups and support them by providing a strong volunteer network and the resources that they need to develop and grow. By matching aspiring volunteers looking to lend a hand with the 7 out of 10 regional sports clubs that need help, the partnership will enable more participants to lead healthy and active lives.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Join In\u00a0please visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.joininuk.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.joininuk.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ofsted has\u00a0published\u00a0a report on how recent funding has improved the quality and breadth of PE and sport in\u00a0primary schools.<\/p>\n<p>For full details on the forthcoming ukactive summit, head over to the <strong>News<\/strong> section of the blog.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Legacy 2012 charity Join In\u00a0aims\u00a0to place more volunteers in sport. It has announced that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[96,97,98,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-6020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-group-exericse","9":"tag-intersport","10":"tag-join-in","11":"tag-legacy-2012"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}