ForewordDugald Mackie ChairWelcome to our 2010/11 Annual Review. It is difficult not to sound complacent by beginning each review with the declaration that it has been yet another successful year, but for an organisation with a short life span of five years, there is much to fit in to ensure our funding leaves the legacy from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games to which we are all committed. I believe that our recent activities have further cemented this legacy across the UK and that it genuinely has been a very successful year.In the past twelve months we have strengthened our relationship with The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) by becoming a Principal Funder of the Cultural Olympiad and London 2012 Festival, which ensures that all our projects are part of the official cultural celebrations of the Games. We have also seen delivery of over 100 projects across the UK, reaching three million people. In January our Board of Trustees announced our final programme; Community Celebrations, which will create spectacular outdoor events across the UK. We have awarded £750,000 each to Community Celebrations in Northern Ireland, Scotland, the East Midlands and the South East. These celebrations will be part of the London 2012 Festival, the finale of the Cultural Olympiad.For those sections of the press and for other commentators who have questioned the value of the Cultural Olympiad, I would suggest that they look beyond London and allow their gaze to fall on the rest of the United Kingdom. They will then see for themselves the many projects supported by the Trust which have been giving substance to the Cultural Olympiad over the last year and which will build up in activity as we approach 2012.As a riposte to the nay-sayers, I can confirm that our projects are continuing to deliver exciting programmes of activity while also putting in place plans for sustainability and legacy. This review focuses on their impact which is vital in ensuring that they can continue to benefit their communities after our funding has ended. The examples within these pages clearly demonstrate how this is already happening.Legacy Trust UK: Annual Review 2010/111

Our Legacy "Our referrals to Team East for Skills have been very successful. 45-50% of participants have gone back into work and others have gone on to gain a qualification. Our view is that this is a programme that delivers results."Heather Warne, Job Centre Plus Vacancy Manager on success of Team East for SkillsLegacy Trust UK is an independent charitable trust which was set up to create a lasting cultural legacy from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games across the UK. We fund over 100 projects in each nation and region, as well as four national programmes. As a Principal Funder of the official cultural programme for the Games; the Cultural Olympiad and London 2012 Festival, all the projects we fund are part of this celebration, which began in 2008 and will run until the end of the Games in September 2012. While our funding is inextricably linked to London 2012, our ambition for our projects is that many of them will be sustainable and will continue long after the medals have been awarded and the Closing Ceremony has ended. This plan for sustainability was built into our projects from the outset, and we are confident that the impact of our funding will be felt up to and beyond the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.Once the Trust's funding has ended in 2013, we will publish an evaluation document that explores the impact our £40 million endowment (from Arts Council England, Big Lottery Fund and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport) has made. Although this is still some way off, we know that legacies are already being created from our funding across the UK.2Legacy Trust UK: Annual Review 2010/11