Barefoot Games

This project will reconnect the local community to their environment through a number of interactive events and activities run by young volunteers across Cornwall over the next 12 months from July 2010. The events will act as a catalyst to engage participation in, and an audience for the Olympics.

The big theme running through all the events is based on creating challenges. The Eden Team and volunteers will create Olympic style activities such as creating a long jump pit that marks out the world record, or putting up a high jump and setting the bar at the world record height. Children and adults from across the area would be encouraged to try these challenges and measure themselves against the best Olympians.

The young volunteers will learn how to lead the sessions and interact with a diverse range of people from the community. People in the community in turn will learn a number of skills, enhance their fitness levels, learn to respect and sustain their surroundings and benefit the wider community.

The project is an extremely exciting chance for Eden Project to use the inspiration of London 2012 to interact with our communities in a way in which has never been possible for us before. London 2012 has enabled us to explore how we can really make a difference to lives and an impact on our local environment by putting to good use the 2012 values.