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At least £10 million is available to invest in facilities which will bring the venues up to world-class standards for use by athletes during the London 2012 Games.

Schools, universities, sports clubs and leisure centres in London and throughout the UK can benefit from the major legacy investment opportunity after being designated as Games-time training venues.

The London 2012 Organizing Committee (LOCOG) and the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) who are, respectively, managing the project and funding the majority of the capital works needed announced a network of 16 Games-time training venues. Further 12 will be announced by the end of the year. Those remaining are mainly football training facilities outside London.

Redbridge Sports & Leisure Centre is the first venue to be signed up. The facility will provide training for badminton, judo and wrestling during the Olympics and for goalball during the Paralympics.

The ODA grant is to help build a £6.4 million badminton and netball centre, with about half the amount coming from the Trust which runs the centre, in addition to external funding from organizations such as Sport England (National Lottery), Badminton England, the London Marathon Trust and England Netball.