Lets Make it Happen

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Lets Make it Happen

• 29th Scottish Association of Local Sports
  Councils National Seminar
• 3-5th February 2006
• Grant Jarvie
• University of Stirling
• Department of Sports Studies

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Can Sport Change the World?
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The Norway Cup

• Founded 1972
• 1998 organised 1,325 teams 34 Nations 3,500
  Football matches 49 fields.
• 25,000 kids every year
• Could SALSC organise the equivalent in Scotland?

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What does it mean to say someone will change the
world?
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Sport and Civil Renewal

• she stated that the real value of sport and
  physical activity was the hidden face of sport,
  the tens of thousands of enthusiasts and
  volunteers who find in their football, rowing and
  athletics a place for meeting and exchange but
  above all the training ground for community life.
  Sport, for her, was seen par excellence as the
  ideal school for democracy

• Sports Clubs - 26 of UK population
• 21 actively play sport as a member of a sports
  organisation
• 6 regularly volunteer
• Sport most popular group activity
• UK above the European average
• Benefits Carry over effect from sports
  participation in clubs

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SALSC, ISCA and the UN
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United Nations Inter- Agency Task Force

• Sport for Development and Peace
• Sport and Reconciliation
• Sport and International Co-operation

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Twic Olympic Games Sudan
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Sport and Social Change?
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Gebrselassies rise provides hope in the long run
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Thank You

• University of Stirling
• Department of Sports Studies
• Please work with us
• Please come and visit us at the University of
  Stirling
• Please feel free to contact us at
• grant.jarvie_at_stir.ac.uk
• www.sports_at_stir.ac.uk