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IFI programme reflects on influential funding partnership with Department of Health
For the last three years, the Department of Health has funded a core part of the Inclusive Fitness Initiative. Now at the end of this funding cycle, we reflect on its impact on disabled people and the shape of work to come.
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Mark Fosbrook blog: 2014 Incheon World Wheelchair Basketball Championship
GB Men’s Wheelchair Basketball Team is ready to take on the best in the world. Among the British team members is Mark Fosbrook, EFDS's Engagement Officer for the Midlands and South West.
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Athletes with a learning disability gather at National Athletics Championships in Manchester
On Saturday 28 June, nearly 100 people with a learning disability came from across the UK to compete in The Royal Mencap Society’s Seventeenth Open National Athletics Championships at Manchester Regional Arena, at Sportcity.
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Penny and Arthur Dean receive OBE each in Queen's Birthday Honours
The Dwarf Sports Association UK (DSAuk) is proud to announce that its Chair Penny Dean and its President Arthur Dean were awarded an OBE each in June's Queen's Birthday Honours List.
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400 school children compete at Sussex Parallel Youth Games
School children from across Sussex came out in force for the Parallel Youth Games - a multi-sport competition event for disabled children aged 11-18 - on Wednesday 11 June 2014 at Freedom Leisure's The Triangle.
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New research into how older people with sight loss can engage in physical activity
This new groundbreaking research, commissioned by the Thomas Pocklington Trust, is the first to investigate how older people with sight loss can engage in physical activity.
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GBDFA seeking independent Non-Executive Directors
GBDFA now seeks to appoint up to three Independent Non-Executive Directors (INEDs) to support the next phase of its operations over the period to the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.
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Stroke towards inclusive canoeing for people with learning disabilities in Reading
People with a learning disability attended pilot launch at Wokingham Waterside Centre
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Urchinwood Manor gains Accessibility Mark accreditation
Urchinwood Manor riding school are celebrating their new Accessibility Mark accreditation that will give the centre the opportunity to provide riding opportunities to disabled people in their local community.
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ECB urges recreational cricketers to have their say on the game’s future
The ECB is calling on recreational cricketers to have their say and influence the future of cricket at grassroots level in its second annual National Cricket Playing survey.
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Portway Lifestyle Centre awarded excellence at being inclusive
Portway Lifestyle Centre in Oldbury is one of only five leisure facilities in the country to be awarded the top level of the IFI Mark in recognition of the centre’s outstanding commitment to inclusion.
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Training courses to promote exercise and disability
It is estimated that around 20% of the UK population have an impairment or medical condition, and yet disabled people are seriously under-represented within the leisure industry – both as gym users and most certainly within the workforce.
