Young leaders Programme

The London 2012 Young Leaders Programme offers a group of disadvantaged young people the chance to make positive change to their lives. Sponsored by BP, the programme will run from April 2010 until the end of the Games in September 2012.

The selected young leaders will take part in an 18-month training programme designed to improve their communication and leadership skills, with training delivered at a local, regional and national level through workshops, mentoring programmes and events.

So far 19 young people from Surrey have been selected for this programme.

Reports from Surrey Young Leaders

2011

• Update from Fran Strange
  Since providing a report in 2010, Fran reports on how the scheme has benefited her so far. Here she writes about taking part in intergenerational project called 'The Generation Game.' This fun project involved interacting with games that are aimed at various age groups.

• Update from Tanya Kemp
  Tanya Kemp reports on her progress with an exciting project to decorate a traffic roundabout with an Olympic and Paralympic theme. Tanya also reports on her training to be a volunteer and her excitement for the London 2012 Games.
  
  
• Update from Alice Gibbs
  Along with other Surrey members of the Young Leaders Programme, Alice was given a tour around the Olympic Park. Here Alice writes about how the park had impressed her and how this has made her anticipate the Games on home soil.
  

2010

• Surrey teenagers tell us about their induction into the Young Leaders Programme
  Young Leaders Fran Edwards and Francesca Strange provide a report on their daunting yet exciting induction to the programme. After meeting and getting to know the other young leaders in the programme they received an inspirational visit from athletes including Dame Kelly Holmes.

• Young Leaders describe their exciting start to their volunteering programme.
  After an exciting introduction to the programme, Young Leaders Fran Edwards and Francesca Strange apply their newly acquired skills to various events including the Surrey Youth Games and the Health Qigong event at the 2010 Open Weekend.