Active East Wins Inaugural Dell Scotland Legacy Award
23 July 2014
ACTIVE EAST WINS INAUGURAL DELL SCOTLAND LEGACY AWARD
Active East, a project based in the heart of East Glasgow, was awarded the inaugural Dell Scotland Legacy Award 2014 this week at Beyond The Games, powered by Dell.
The Dell Scotland Legacy 2014 Award is designed to make Scottish grassroots initiatives more sustainable by providing a platform and support opportunities to local programmes that are using sport to address social issues in their communities.
Five shortlisted projects were recognised as having leveraged the power of Glasgow’s Commonwealth Games, and the Games’ three main values of Humanity, Equality, and/or Destiny, to use sport to address one or more social issues around the Commonwealth.
The Shortlist and Winner were selected by a judging committee made up of experts and representatives from Beyond Sport, Glasgow 2014 and Dell.
Active East aims to use the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games as a catalyst to address significant issues relating to young people’s lack of participation in sport and physical activity in the east of Glasgow and to create a local legacy from the Games. Active East has embraced the 2014 Commonwealth Games by creating their own Games experience engaging young people and sports clubs to grow the number of people actively engaged with Active East.
The award was presented by the General Manager of Dell Scotland, Ishbell MacPhail, alongside Humza Yousaf MSP, Minister for External Affairs and International Development for the Scottish Government. The presentation took place at Beyond the Games, powered by Dell, which brought together sports and civic leaders to explore the power of the Commonwealth Games to advance promotion of and respect for the Commonwealth Games Federation’s core values of humanity, equality and destiny.
Active East were shortlisted for the award alongside The Drumchapel Sports Centre, StreetSoccer Scotland, Move More Dundee and Healthy Powerful Communities.
Beyond The Games, powered by Dell, was uniquely backed by Glasgow 2014, the Scottish Government, Glasgow City Council and Glasgow Caledonian University.