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The Beyond Sport Summit
The Beyond Sport Summit was a unique three-day event designed to celebrate, promote and drive forward sport-led social change. The Summit collided those who use sport as a vehicle to create social impact, with influencers from the world of business, government and federations whose attitudes and decisions can have substantial impact.
The Summit had three primary objectives:
* To forge connections and ongoing strategic relationships that create benefits across all parties. (DONE!)
* To generate ideas that will tangibly help to scale and replicate sport development projects from across the globe. (ACCOMPLISHED!)
* To create momentum behind the change-through-sport agenda. (ENERGY PRESENT & PALPABLE!)
I AM A WITNESS! Got Sport?!
While I was in London last week for the Beyond Sport Summit & Awards, I walked around the city by St. Paul’s Cathedral last Monday evening and had the unexpected and delightful opportunity to encounter one of 30 pianos randomly placed throughout the city as part of the Play Me I’m Yours public art project. I saw & heard someone playing the same piano located at the Millennium Bridge & featured in the above street piano video by Andrew Balkwill.
Millennium Bridge/Photo Courtesy of Peter Visontay
What a BRILLIANT & PLAYFUL idea - BRAVO!
Dateline: July 7th - July 9th & beyond…
Locale: London, UK
The Moment: The Beyond Sport Summit
The Details: Beyond Sport seeks to celebrate and support any individual or group, from the grassroots to the global, with the goal to drive positive change through sport. We do this through the Beyond Sport Summit and Awards. The winners of the Awards will receive substantial funding, long-term support, and opportunities to network at the annual Beyond Sport Summit on July 7-9. The Official Shortlist has now been announced. Click here to find out more about the projects that have been identified to participate at the Beyond Sport Summit.
I will be attending this event all next week in London. It should be quite a special moment for me as I have the honor to partner with a clever innovation company, ?Whatif!, for the entire event. On Day 1 & 2, ?Whatif! and I will play the role of Host/Facilitator to the Beyond Sport shortlist social entrepreneurs and provide some teachable moments to further empower their work as human catalysts in their communities.On Day 3then I will host the Beyond Sport Awards with the founder of Beyond Sport, Nick Keller who is absolutely one of my kindred, catalytic spirits.
Here’s a bit more about Nick - Nick Keller is the Founder of Beyond Sport. It was a logical next step for someone who has spent nearly all his working life in sport. In 2000 he set up Benchmark Sport, an entrepreneurial sports company whose brands now include the Sport Industry Group (SIG), Square Mile Sport and Rugby ReUnion. During his career Nick has worked with, and consulted for, an array of blue-chip brands including Bloomberg, HSBC and Virgin Atlantic. He was awarded the Entrepreneurial Media Boss of the Year in 2003 and supports two London-based youth charities.
He has been inspired by sport since childhood and believes that as a restless fidgety pupil, sport was his saviour. Nick still enjoys tennis, running and cycling, and recently completed London’s Marathon and Triathlon. He didn’t enjoy either of these but he did have the idea for Beyond Sport in the shower after, for which he is eternally grateful to the pain, the cramp and the blisters.
Beyond Sport is a BIG moment for the sport for social change movement as human catalysts, thought leaders and business luminaries collide their points of view about the power of sport and engage in meaningful, call-to-action dialogue about sport’s capability to change lives!
A Ball Can Change the World!
*Beyond Sport 2009 Shortlist
From the Beyond Sport website:
Beyond Sport seeks to celebrate and support any individual or group, from the grassroots to the global, with the goal to drive positive change through sport.
Congratulations to the 2009 Beyond Sport Awards Shortlist! These Shortlisted projects were chosen from over 265 entries that submitted applications to this year’s Awards. By reaching this stage of the judging process, they will each receive an invitation to attend the Beyond Sport Summit on July 7-9 in London.
Thanks to the unique support and goodwill of Beyond Sport’s Global Partner, Virgin Atlantic, representatives from these projects will be flown from all over world to the Summit in London, where accommodation will also be provided.
The winners will be announced on the final day of the Summit, with the successful projects in the six Beyond Sport Foundation Award categories receiving £10,000 each and a package of support especially designed to aid them in becoming sustainable in the future.
Well done…I’m really looking forward to meeting the Shortlist Winners in July!
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