www.radiowaves.co.uk/S2R

S2R -Supporter to Reporter- 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 passionate 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. London 2012 is an unmissable opportunity for S2R, but the project aims to develop and grow beyond this event. We aim to bring S2R’s unique impact to many more young people in the UK and internationally, to report on sport and the world around it in their way.

S2R Statistics 700+ young people trained 48 S2R trainers skilled-up 5600 reports produced

Testimonials
S2R has been one of the best things I have been involved with in my life.-Reporter

Any project that can have such a significant impact on a group of young people from challenging backgrounds has to be worthy of the Foundation's support. The passion and belief of the staff involved in mentoring, guiding and supporting the young people is second to none.-Steve Futter, Football Foundation

For some of the young people involved I dare to suggest that the programme could be life changing- Val Sudlow, Northants Study Centres

I was again impressed with the energy and commitment of both the youth reporters and the staff. The young people are helped to learn the basics of reporting but in the process of doing that also learn valuable organisational skills and how to meet deadlines.  You can see them grow in confidence.- Amanda Farnsworth, BBC London 2012 Executive

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