With just over a year to go until the start of the 2012 Games, organisers are on the search for young volunteers.

More than 2,000 young people from across the UK will be recruited to take up volunteer roles at events, including the sailing events in Weymouth and Portland, as part of the Young Games Maker programme.

Approximately 250 teams of young people, who must be aged 16 or over on July 1 2012 and under 18 on January 1 2012 will join the adult Games Makers next summer to help stage the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The programme will allow young people already involved in sport to experience sport at its highest level and explore opportunities that exist outside competition whilst encouraging those not necessarily involved in sport now to participate and develop their skills.

LOCOG is inviting organisations such as youth or sports clubs, community and volunteering groups and schools and colleges that are members of the London 2012 Get Set network, to spend the next eight weeks reviewing the roles on offer and encouraging their young people to consider forming a team.

For more information visit the website london2012.com/young-games-maker