The party may be almost over but there’s no need to suffer from withdrawal symptoms. A number of organisations and programmes are here to help you turn inspiration into participation, Sport England provide a guide below:

• Interested in a specific sport? Find the relevant national governing body

If you’re interested in a particular Olympic or non-Olympic sport, then its national governing body will be able to help you find the right club or place to play. Many are offering taster sessions specifically designed to give people like you the chance to try the sport they’ve been watching.
Find out more

• Want to make local sports contacts? Contact your local county sports partnership

County sports partnerships are responsible for making sport happen at a local level, county sports partnerships or CSPs, can put you in touch with local sports clubs and activities, whatever your age.
Find your local CSP

• Make sport happen with Sport Makers

Whether it’s planning the route, finding the pitch or encouraging people to take part – sport doesn’t just happen, it needs people to make it happen. Become one of 40,000 Sport Makers aged 16+ and you’ll not only get the skills, knowledge and opportunities you need to get more people playing sport, you’ll become part of the official London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic sports legacy.
Find out more about Sportmakers

• Brush up your management skills with Club Leaders

Take the strain out of running a club by signing up to Club Leaders. It provides free training and support to those running our grassroots sports clubs. Modules on offer include finance, marketing, and facilities management.
Learn more about Club Leaders

On Wednesday 22 August, with just one week to go to the Games, four Flames will be lit at the summit of the highest peaks of the four UK nations. The Flames will then be transferred to each nation’s capital city where they will each become the focus for a day of Paralympic celebrations.

On Tuesday 28 August the Flames will be united in Stoke Mandeville – the spiritual home of the Paralympic Movement – to create the London 2012 Paralympic Flame. At 8pm that evening, the Paralympic Flame will embark on its 24-hour Relay, with 116 teams of five Torchbearers set to carry the Flame on its journey to the Olympic Stadium in Stratford.

The 24-hour Paralympic Torch Relay will travel through the night to arrive in London on Wednesday 29 August. Rally your family, friends and neighbours to see the Paralympic Flame and cheer on the teams of inspirational Torchbearers. Check the route to see when the Flame is coming near you

• A Torch Relay which touched and inspired the whole country, with more than 14.6 million people seeing the Olympic Flame on its journey across every nation and region of the UK, passing within easy reach of 95% of the population. Watch the highlights here
• Team GB’s most successful Games in more than a century, finishing third in the medal table and exceeding the target of winning more medals in more sports than in Beijing, breaking four World Records in the process. Relive Team GB gold medal moments on the BBC
• Some of the most iconic moments in Olympic history, these will be the events that we look back at in sporting montages for years to come whether it was Usain Bolt claiming his legendary status, Micheal Phelps as the most decorated Olympian ever or just the incredible performances by Team GB. See some of them here.
• Record numbers of spectators at Olympic venues, with over 7.4 million people visiting venues across the UK. Over 2.4 million alone visited the Olympic park in Stratford. Outside the Olympic venues, more than four million people saw the Games at the Live Sites, over one million lined the streets for the men’s and women’s road cycling and 12 million people attended London 2012 Festival events.
• Record numbers of TV viewers. With a global potential reach of 4.8bn, up to 1 billion people worldwide watched the opening ceremony alone, with an average UK audience of 22.4 million. The International Olympic Committee said that almost nine out of 10 people in the UK have watched some coverage of the London 2012 Games.
• Breaking new ground for sporting equality, with London 2012 being the first Olympic Games where every single country had female athletes competing. Meanwhile, women’s boxing became an Olympic sport for the first time and more than 80,000 spectators watched the women’s football final at Wembley, a record breaking crowd for a women’s fixture.

The BBC sums up just how fantastic it was in their blog piece. Make sure you check out our ‘Remember the Games‘ section to find out how you can share your moments.

The aim of Join In is for every sports club or community group in the UK to put on a special event or activity on the Join In Weekend – capturing the enthusiasm for sport that we know this summer’s sporting events will generate.

Whether clubs want to sign up more members, supporters or volunteers, this will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to attract local people who may never have come to their club before. And Join In will help them to do it.

Watch Eddie Izzard explain why you should get on your marks

Here are just a few reasons why you should get involved and Join In:

• Meet people – Join In is happening in your local community – come along and make new friends.
• It’s free – Most Join In events are open to everybody and completely free.
• It’s easy – You don’t need to be an expert. Lots of Join In events are beginner-friendly or for people trying something new.
• Be part of a special summer – Inspired by the Games? Join In is a great way to get involved in sport this summer.
• Help to create a champion – It takes thousands of volunteers, coaches and mentors to help train a top sporting champion. By volunteering, you could help the next generation of sports stars.
• Get fit – If you haven’t played sport for a while, taking part in Join In could kickstart a new fitness goal.
• Bring friends and family – Join In is for everyone, whether you come on your own, bring friends or the whole family.

Just head to  https://www.joininuk.org/locations to find an event in your area

There are a number of ways you can get involved:

Tickets still available include those for sports at ExCeL such as Wheelchair Fencing, Sitting Volleyball, Boccia andPowerlifting. These tickets include a £10 ExCeL Day Pass, giving you the opportunity to see up to five sports on the same day. Tickets for the Paralympic Opening and Closing Ceremonies in the higher price brackets also remain. Buy tickets to the London 2012 Paralympic Games

The Paralympics will have their own Torch Relay. The 24-hour Relay will see the Paralympic Flame carried 87 miles by 580 inspirational Torchbearers, working in teams of five, from Stoke Mandeville in Buckinghamshire to London.The Flame will travel through communities in Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire before visiting a number of iconic London landmarks, including Piccadilly Circus, Westminster Abbey, Downing Street  and Trafalgar Square – which will host live entertainment and sport screened throughout the Paralympic Games. Explore the route here

The Opening Ceremony for the Paralympics will prove to be every bit as spectacular as the ceremony for the Olympics. Why not get your friends and family together to experience the start of the Games. Use the London 2012 Local Leaders guide to get planning your party, make some bunting to hang our and get the Paralympic themed food ready for when your  guests arrive.

Make sure you don’t miss the sports action you love. Go to the full sport schedule and work out what’s happening when. Don’t forget, the London 2012 road events – including Cycling Time Trial, Marathon and Race Walk – give you the chance to see live sport for free. Sign up to get news about watching the road races

The BBC, our official broadcaster, has a packed week of programmes to get you in the mood for the Games: from the final episode of ‘Twenty Twelve’ to ‘First Past the Post’ and an‘Absolutely Fabulous’ special. See what’s on

London 2012 Festival

The London 2012 Festival is the biggest festival the UK has ever seen. From 21 June – 9 September 2012, artists from all over the world are coming together in celebration of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

There are 10 million free opportunities to get involved in the Festival, as well as a host of Countdown events. The London 2012 Festival website has details of everything in the Festival – new events are being added all the time!

Become a local leader

Across the whole of the UK, millions of people will celebrate this summer. And at the heart of every celebration will be the one person who makes it happen. Whether you invite three friends or your whole community, you could be a Local Leader for London 2012.

Sign up to receive our Local Leader newsletter to get access to exclusive competitions and  celebration ideas. Plus with loads of ideas about how you can celebrate Super Saturday where we hope GB will win big on the medal stakes make sure you use all the ideas, hints and tips to get involved.

Send us a picture of you holding up a piece of paper that says why you’re excited about London 2012 and you could win an incredible experience.

You and a friend will get tickets to the London 2012 Torch Finale at Hyde Park on Thursday 26th July, return train travel and a night at a London hotel.

Dizzee Rascal is headlining, alongside The Wanted, Mark Ronson and Katy B, You Me At Six, Rizzle Kicks, Eliza Doolittle, Wretch 32 plus even more

Email a picture to competitons@nusextra.co.uk by Monday 23rd July to be in with a chance of winning

Fancy getting involved?  Try these for size:

• Run an event, or support through your organisation – download the Give an Hour pack to help you
• Share the BBC’s Instructional films and written guides with your friends and family
• Sharing’s caring – spotted a BBC trail, fancy following Give an Hour activity, or want to tell us what you’re up to?  Use the hashtag #GiveAnHour on Twitter or @ukdigitalchampions on Facebook
• Inspire others – share your digital champ/ beginner stories and they could even be featured on BBC TV and radio!
• Spread the word via with your friends and family on Facebook

You can find out more about what it’s like to help people get online through the Get Online programme through this video.

Find out more on www.bbc.co.uk/giveanhour

You could:

Ring bells

Start the celebrations early by hosting an All The Bells event and join thousands of others ringing bells at 8.12am as part of the London 2012 Festival.

Decorate and celebrate

Get everyone involved – there’s plenty to make for all ages. Attempt 100 metres of paper chains or theme your party food. Blow up balloons and make them look like Olympic Rings.

Get cooking

It’s time to put your apron on and get cooking with recipes to feed a family or a sports team. Try Pendleton pizza for a tasty snack, or cheese-straw oars for perfect finger food. And finish off with ‘dive right in’ punch – delicious.

Wear your glad rags

Face paint an eye on your forehead and wear blue or orange to mimic our mascots. Come in the colour of an Olympic Ring. Or you could go for the ancient Olympic Games look and make a toga.

Games for the Games

A party’s not complete without games. Get into teams and play bingo, or race Wenlock down your living room.

Sign up to receive the Local Leader newsletter to get access to exclusive competitions and celebration ideas. Then TellTom@london2012.com how you’re going to celebrate and he’ll send you a limited edition Local Leader pin badge.

Running until 9 September 2012, the once-in-a-lifetime Festival features more than 25,000 artists from all 204 competing Olympic and Paralympic nations.

There are more than 10 million free tickets and opportunities to take part in 12,000 events, with performances at 900 venues in villages, towns and cities all over the UK, including 137 world premieres and 85 UK premieres.

You can download the official guide online to help you start planning how you can get involved