Lord Sebastian Coe is to chair international sports development charity International Inspiration.
Lord Coe was appointed today at the first Board meeting of the newly merged charity, which aims to inspire, empower and transform lives through sport. The charity will enable the continuation of the ‘Singapore Vision’; the promise made by the London 2012 bid team to ‘reach young people all around the world and connect them to the inspirational power of the Games so they are inspired to choose sport’.
The organisation has been formed through a merger of the II Foundation (IIF), the charity established in 2009 to deliver the London 2012 international sport and social legacy programme, International Inspiration, and International Development through Sport (IDS), a charity founded in 1990 to foster the development of and access to sport in developing countries, initially in Southern Africa.