Support local sport Volunteering in local sport has the power to create healthier, happier people and stronger communities. Join In: Supports the sports clubs and groups who need volunteers most Promotes brilliant opportunities for people to volunteer in their local communities and at flagship sporting events Recognises the huge social value created by volunteers through … Continue reading Join In brand
Comedian and Join In patron Eddie Izzard led the nation’s biggest ever thank you to sport volunteers at the 2014 BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
During the show, Eddie asked the TV audience and everyone at Glasgow’s SSE Hydro to add their thanks and the response was enormous! The #BigThankYou hashtag was the top trend on Twitter – first in the UK, then worldwide – beating the X Factor final on the same night. Continue reading “Join In – The #BigThankYou”
Following the success of the #BigThankYou at BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2014, Join In and BBC Get Inspired embarked on recruiting 10,000 volunteers into community sport the following year – the #BigHelpOut. Launched with Eddie Izzard on BBC Breakfast↑ and Tanni Grey-Thompson on BBC One’s The One Show (see below), we built on … Continue reading Join In – The #BigHelpOut
Join In teamed up with The National Lottery, ITV, UK Sport and Team GB to create the Rio 2016 Team GB homecoming campaign, I Am Team GB. We delivered 2,600 events across the UK with 972,000 people taking part – 52% of participants being people who “don’t enjoy exercising in their spare time”. Pulled together … Continue reading I Am Team GB club campaign design