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
marked 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 more numerous
generalist roles which include ticket checking, uniform distributors and
staffing helpdesks and information points, will open on 15 September 2010. The
programme’s Presenting Partner is McDonald’s. 

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.

London 2012 also opened its flagship shop today at St Pancras International in
London, which will sell a wide range of London 2012 merchandise – including for
the first time London 2012’s mascots Wenlock and Mandeville related merchandise.
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.

27 July 2010

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