Disability Sport News

Funding news

Nottingham Powerchair Football Club has been awarded £10,000 to develop the facilities offered at their club by providing their team sports powerchairs for use during training and competitions. This grant will pay for 3 more.

The Blind & Partially Sighted Alliance has received £3032 which will enable this Mansfield-based community organisation to provide light exercise sessions for members of the group through Tai Chi and indoor bowling classes. The grant will pay for venue hire, instructors and support volunteer expenses.

East Midlands Goalball will use their £10,000 to establish a regional development centre for goalball (a Paralympic sport). The centre will offer training, increase opportunities to play goalball, create competitions between local clubs and set up a more formalised approach to working with the education sector. The grant will also pay for equipment, coaching fees, coaching courses, leader courses and the first East Midlands Goalball competition.

£5,420 for Special Olympics Nottinghamshire will mean that the project development of the first two sites will be sustained and the group will establish a third pilot site. The project will enable people with learning disabilities in Nottinghamshire to develop their sporting skills and the grant will pay for coach education, sports equipment, transport, venue hire, advertising, sports festival and launch event.