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CREATING THE GOLDEN THREAD

Creating the Golden Thread, commissioned by Spirit of 2012, examined how the infrastructure around events can be improved to create better legacies.

Warwick Business School report explored the impacts of a wide range of events that took place in the UK in recent decades, making five key recommendations to strengthen the infrastructure, accountability, reach and delivery of major events to ensure a long-term legacy for investment. 

In exploring these different events, the entire project team was struck that what was often missing was a sense of what bound these events together and how they operated in a wider system of place-based change. The DCMS Select Committee referred to this as the “golden thread” that brings together the various impacts of events, and works to ensure they are more than the sum of their parts.

The report concluded with a set of recommendations which aimed to provide a framework to strengthen the legacy of culture, sport and ceremonial major events, and maximise the impact value from significant levels of public investments.

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CREATING THE GOLDEN THREAD

Creating the Golden Thread, commissioned by Spirit of 2012, examined how the infrastructure around events can be improved to create better legacies.

Warwick Business School report explored the impacts of a wide range of events that took place in the UK in recent decades, making five key recommendations to strengthen the infrastructure, accountability, reach and delivery of major events to ensure a long-term legacy for investment. 

In exploring these different events, the entire project team was struck that what was often missing was a sense of what bound these events together and how they operated in a wider system of place-based change. The DCMS Select Committee referred to this as the “golden thread” that brings together the various impacts of events, and works to ensure they are more than the sum of their parts.

The report concluded with a set of recommendations which aimed to provide a framework to strengthen the legacy of culture, sport and ceremonial major events, and maximise the impact value from significant levels of public investments.

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OUR DAY OUT: CREATIVE JOY AND CONNECTION IN LATER LIFE

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CREATING THE GOLDEN THREAD

Creating the Golden Thread, commissioned by Spirit of 2012, examined how the infrastructure around events can be improved to create better legacies.

Warwick Business School report explored the impacts of a wide range of events that took place in the UK in recent decades, making five key recommendations to strengthen the infrastructure, accountability, reach and delivery of major events to ensure a long-term legacy for investment. 

In exploring these different events, the entire project team was struck that what was often missing was a sense of what bound these events together and how they operated in a wider system of place-based change. The DCMS Select Committee referred to this as the “golden thread” that brings together the various impacts of events, and works to ensure they are more than the sum of their parts.

The report concluded with a set of recommendations which aimed to provide a framework to strengthen the legacy of culture, sport and ceremonial major events, and maximise the impact value from significant levels of public investments.

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CREATING THE GOLDEN THREAD

Creating the Golden Thread, commissioned by Spirit of 2012, examined how the infrastructure around events can be improved to create better legacies.

Warwick Business School report explored the impacts of a wide range of events that took place in the UK in recent decades, making five key recommendations to strengthen the infrastructure, accountability, reach and delivery of major events to ensure a long-term legacy for investment. 

In exploring these different events, the entire project team was struck that what was often missing was a sense of what bound these events together and how they operated in a wider system of place-based change. The DCMS Select Committee referred to this as the “golden thread” that brings together the various impacts of events, and works to ensure they are more than the sum of their parts.

The report concluded with a set of recommendations which aimed to provide a framework to strengthen the legacy of culture, sport and ceremonial major events, and maximise the impact value from significant levels of public investments.

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