The London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games will be a global event with enormous potential to help deliver our mission of great art for everyone.

We have been closely involved in the development of the Cultural Olympiad programme since the bid stage. As a result of our investment, we hope to achieve three things: increased participation in the arts; increased profile for our artists on the world stage; and newcollaborations that push boundaries, and leave a legacy of a strengthened sector.

Key projects include: flagship national project Artists taking the lead, which features 12 artist commissions, including one in every region and nation; Unlimited, a unique programme to commissionhigh-quality, ambitious work by disabled and Deaf artists; and the London 2012 Festival, the culmination of the Cultural Olympiad featuring more than 1,000 events with an estimated audience of three million people. We are also running a number of projects started by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council including Stories of the World and Our sporting life.

We are also responding to the sector's own aspirations for celebrating this momentous year. Many National portfolio organisations are developing programmes for 2012 as part of their core work, and Grants for the arts has provided further support to a huge range of projects across the country.

Browse the links below to find out more.

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Brochures for all other regions will be available to download from June.