Over 6,500 benefit from Sainsbury’s Inclusive Community Training
With just nine months of the Sainsbury’s Inclusive Community Training programme remaining in this current funding, don’t miss the opportunity to join the 6,500 people who have already benefitted from attending a workshop.
The Sainsbury Inclusive Community Training is a Paralympic legacy initiative designed to improve the skills, knowledge and confidence of those who support disabled people of all ages in the community to deliver sport based activities.
Since January 2014, over 6,500 community organisations, volunteers, healthcare professionals, carers and support workers have attended one of the low cost, three hour practical workshops.
The Sainsbury’s Inclusive Community Training, now in its final year, continues to be well received by participants with 88% rating the workshop 8 out of 10 or higher. Furthermore, almost all participants (99%) agree or strongly agree that they learnt practical ideas to support inclusive delivery and gained new ideas they could apply immediately in their role through the training.
Upon completion of the workshop, participants described the training as “brilliant”, “an important workshop” and a “really useful tool”.
The immediate impact the training has on the participants is clear with confidence, skills and knowledge to include disabled people in activity increasing by 40% after the workshop.
Data collected 3-6 months after attending a workshop shows the longer-term impact of the initiative. There is an increase in sustainable confidence, skills and knowledge and over two thirds of participants say the training has made a difference to their own delivery.
EFDS’s vision is that disabled people are active for life. The ultimate goal of the Sainsbury’s Inclusive Community Training is to support disabled individuals to be and stay active. Statistics show seven in ten (74%) of participants believe the disabled people they support are more active than before they attended a workshop.
One participant explained the self-satisfaction they received from the training:
“There is no greater feeling in the world than for a person to come to you and say ‘I can’t do that’ and you answer with ‘give me a few good reasons why not’. Then you show them the way it can be adapted. The Sainsbury’s Inclusive Community Training showed me there is always a way.”
Don’t miss out! Sainsbury’s Inclusive Community Training costs just £10 per person (further subsidies may apply).
