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Six years after the staging of the London Games in 2012, Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park is delivering Olympic legacy through sport, economy, local community and environment.
also comprises Don Valley Bowl, the Oasis Academy Don Valley school, UTC Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park, a 3G Community Pitch which is being used by Sheffield United Women Football Club and home to Sheffield Eagles Rugby League, formal and informal grassed areas, run routes, cycle paths and outdoor community facilities. The Park is also host to the National Centre
SHEFFIELD Olympic Legacy Park is a London 2012 Olympic Legacy Project for health and wellbeing research and learning. An evolution of the Sheffield City Region Innovation District that started 15 years ago, it brings together a combination of elite athletes, professional sports, education, skills and research in a single location. Project lead for Sheffield Olympic Legacy
Park and the former sports minster, the Rt Hon Richard Caborn, has been the driving force behind the development. “One of the unique offers in the London bid
was to deliver an Olympic legacy on health and wellbeing through the four themes of sport, economy, local community and sustainability. Sheffield has taken this on board and is the only city in the UK that has delivered this part of the legacy,” says Caborn.
a winning combination Legacy Park Ltd, a joint venture between Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Sheffield City Council, was created in February 2015 to deliver Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park. The Lower Don Valley area was the obvious
location for regeneration following the closure of Don Valley Stadium in September 2013. Already home to the English Institute of Sport Sheffield (EISS) and iceSheffield, it was an ideal base to add further facilities and services rather than starting anew. Following its success over the first four years, Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park has now extended to adjacent land which in total covers 60 acres for redevelopment. In addition to iceSheffield and EISS, where
numerous elite athletes train including 2012 Olympic gold medallist Anthony Joshua and Paralympic gold medallist Will Bayley, the site
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for Sports and Exercise Medicine (NCSEM). Opened by Lord Sebastian Coe in 2016, NCSEM is enabling significant improvements in its first full year of operation with the co-location of NHS services and the transfer of 80,000 appointments a year from traditional NHS services to clinics based in leisure centres – Graves Health and Sports Centre, Thorncliffe Health and Leisure Centre and Concord Sports Centre. Patients are prescribed exercise as an alternative to medication.
It has also seen 20,000 individuals engage in public health behaviour change programmes embedding physical activity in schools, the workplace and communities. These programmes are part of the Move More Sheffield campaign and include workplace challenges, school challenges, active travel campaigns, walking programmes, the appointment of Move More Ambassadors and an app to track physical activity. Work has now begun on the Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre (AWRC), which will act as the research hub for the NCSEM. Once operational, it will be the most advanced research and development centre for health and physical
“six years on from London 2012, we’re proud to demonstrate such a lasting legacy from the Olympic and Paralympic Games”
activity in the world, dedicated to creating innovations for health with a focus on those that help to increase levels of physical activity. The AWRC will tackle key issues affecting the nation such as static levels of physical activity, rising obesity, drug and alcohol misuse as well as seeking to develop preventative measures against life-limiting diseases and illnesses. The AWRC will be home to 70 researchers who will carry out work focused on taking services and products from concept to market
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