StreetGames volunteers carry 1948 Olympic Torch

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Several members of The Co-operative StreetGames Young Volunteers programme from the StreetGames Active Hastings project have had the opportunity to carry one of the torches used in the 1948 Olympic Torch Relay - the relay which preceded the London Olympic Games that year. 

Last week the young volunteers helped out in a tour of schools, organised by the local  Hearty Lives Officer for Hastings (a post funded by the British Heart Foundation), to promote healthy lifestyles to schoolchildren in the area. As well as carrying the torch, they arranged sports sessions for the young people in all of the schools that they visited.

Thanks to our partnership with Coca-Cola Great Britain, StreetGames will also have 50 of its participants carry the London 2012 Olympic flame in the Olympic Torch Relay as Future Flames.

Featured in the picture is (left to right); Emilie Moffatt, Ken Dullaway (Active StreetGames Coordinator), Stevie Robertson (holding the torch), Amasai Dixon, Verity Roberts and Lauren Gent.