Kent Campaign for the 2012 Games: Maximising the Benefit of the Games being next to the Games

The 'Who' Of Kent's Campaign

Who, What, When, Where and Why of the Kent 2012 Campaign

Kent Coordinating Group for the 2012 Games . Back in February 2005, prior to London winning the right to host the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, Kent partners from the public, private and voluntary sectors came together to look at what a Paris win or a London win could mean for the county. Please follow this link to see the membership of the Kent Coordinating Group for the 2012 Games

Sectoral Task Groups . The Kent Coordinating Group for the 2012 Games has established eight sectoral task groups (working groups) who are responsible for thematic areas of the Kent Campaign for the 2012 Games: Arts, Communications and Media; Economic Development and Regeneration; Schools and Young People; Sport; Tourism; Transport: and Volunteering.

LOCOG – The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games . This is the body responsible for staging the Games themselves, including:

  • Olympic and Paralympic family accommodation, logistics and medical services
  • In-venue security and technology
  • Olympic/Paralympic Village operations
  • Ticket sales, sponsorship, marketing
  • Games time operational planning
  • Sport venue overlays/venue seating
  • Sports equipment
  • Media operations/official merchandise

The Chairman is Lord Sebastian Coe, the Chief Executive Paul Deighton. LOCOG is one of two 'arms' of London 2012

ODA – The Olympic Delivery Authority. This is the body responsible for “building” the Games, including:

  • All Olympic/Paralympic Park infrastructure and site preparation
  • Delivery of permanent competition venues
  • Building Olympic/Paralympic village, International Broadcast Centre, main press centre
  • Building of re-locatable arenas
  • Olympic/Paralympic transport projects
  • Permanent works to existing sports venues
  • Olympic Park venue legacy construction

The Chairman is John Armitt, the Chief Executive is David Higgins. The ODA is the other 'arm' of London 2012

The Olympic Board. This Board has overall responsibility for the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.
It has four members:

  • Tessa Jowell MP, Minister for Culture, Media and Sport (on behalf of the Government)
  • Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, on behalf of the Greater London Authority
  • Colin Moynihan, Chairman of British Olympic Association
  • Lord Sebastian Coe, Chairman of London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games

Nations and Regions Group. This is a group that meets quarterly, and is chaired by Charles Allen. It is facilitated by a number of staff from LOCOG and the Government Olympic Executive. It aims to ensure that individuals and organisations right across the country can be involved in some way in the Games, and have an opportunity to shape and contribute to the staging of “a Games for Britain, hosted by London”. There is one representative from each English region on this group, as well as one representative from Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. As Kent is in the South East region, we are represented by Mary McInally, Chair of Sport England South East.

South East Partnership (SEP) for the 2012 Games. This is a group of regional partners looking at how the Games might best be utilised in the South East region. It meets every two months. “SEP” has established six working groups that feed into it:

  • Business and Foreign Direct Investment (chaired by Alan Searle, SEEDA)
  • Culture and Communities (chaired by Felicity Harvest, Arts Council South East)
  • Skills and Employment (chaired by David Smith, Learning & Skills Council Sussex)
  • Sport (chaired by Julie Edwards)
  • Transport Infrastructure and Gateways (chaired by Andy Mak, SEERA)
  • Visitor Economy (chaired by Nigel Smith, Tourism South East)

SEP itself is chaired by Pam Alexander, Chief Executive of SEEDA, and is facilitated by Karen Jones of SEEDA, and a South East Coordinator for the 2012 Games (Paddy Herlihy).

Please follow this link to see how the South East plans to benefit from the 2012 Games