S2R gives young people skills and confidence through sports reporting. By working for real as reporters at sports event they learn communication skills, teamwork and how to meet deadlines. As they interview players, coaches, organisers and fans they learn to interact with a wide range of people and grow in self-esteem. S2R combines the twin motivators of sport and media. Young people are passionat
e about sport and love using digital media to record, and share their lives. They create reports using video, audio, text and images, and publish them all for the world to see on the safe social network Radiowaves: www.radiowaves.co.uk/s2r
The impact on the young people involved can be life-changing. Many participants, and the people who support them, have demonstrated enormous improvements in confidence, aspiration, attitude to learning and life skills that will last them a lifetime. S2R has established a ‘Hub’ in all 9 English regions, centres of excellence based in sports clubs or schools where hundreds of young people have been trained in S2R and already experienced over a thousand events. Local trainers have been given the skills to take S2R to hundreds more young people over the next two years. We are inspired by London 2012, the chance of a lifetime to inspire young people through the world’s biggest sport event and cultural festival. We are create the national and international youth reporting team for the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics – thousands of young people reporting in their way on what London 2012 means to them. Some will be in the Olympic Park for the events themselves, many more will tell the story of what 2012 means to them and their community: local heroes, the effect on grassroots sport, the nations represented in their town.
