How To Nominate A Glasgow 2014 batonbearer

4000 people will be selected as baton bearers when the Queen's Baton Relay tours Scotland next summer

It will travel across the globe through the 70 nations and territories of the Commonwealth carrying a special message from Her Majesty the Queen, but the final lap of the Queen’s Baton Relay will be its last 40 days travelling the length and breadth of Scotland.

Commonwealth Games Scotland and Glasgow 2014 need up to 4,000 special people to be the batonbearers given the honour of carrying this unique symbol of the Commonwealth Games towards its final destination and the Opening Ceremony of the Games.

Before it departed on its 190,000km, 248-day international journey, the Queen’s Baton was brought to Stirling, the heart of the country and home of Commonwealth Games Scotland, to launch an appeal for nominations for the batonbearers who will carry it through the communities of Scotland in June and July of next year.

From June 14, 2014 and for the following 40 days, the Queen’s Baton will travel to all parts of the nation, visiting every local authority area.

Around 100 batonbearers will carry the baton each day with the relay reaching more than 400 communities during its 40-day journey.

The relay will reflect the important role sport plays in the community by visiting schools, sporting facilities and leisure centres and through a range of events and activities supported by the sportscotland Active Schools Network. The support is focused on encouraging communities to get behind Team Scotland, get involved with the Games and using its profile to get more people participating in sport.

From today (October 10) until 22 November anyone can nominate their own local champions to be batonbearers. To be a batonbearer, people are required to:

• Be 12 years old or older at the date of nomination
• Have made a positive contribution to the lives of others through community sport
• Undertaken voluntary work or contributed to schools or youth organisations
• Contributed towards greater inclusion for disadvantaged or marginalised sectors of the community
• Been a role model or mentor to youth through sport
• Displayed a level of individual achievement against the odds
• Made a significant contribution to their local community

Nominations can be made online from today on the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games website www.glasgow2014.com

A Judging Panel including representatives from a wide cross section of Scottish community organisations will assist in selecting the successful nominations for each local authority area.