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Nominate your Rising Stars and Star Clubs for a cash prize award
In addition to the annual Nationwide Junior Sports Awards this year, Nationwide Building Society have donated funding specifically for 2012, for ten disabled people to win a Rising Star Award and five clubs/groups to win a Star Club Award. A cash prize of
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Wheelchair rounders trial proves great success
Rounders is a sport that can easily be adapted to make it accessible to all and Rounders England are proud to have trialed a wheelchair version of the game.
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New sports club online toolkit will benefit many more disabled people
The EFDS are pleased to unveil the Inclusion Club Hub. The new online toolkit will support sports clubs to improve provision and opportunities, so that more disabled people can be active at a local level.
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Everyone Active nets funds for EFDS events programme
Leisure centre holds a netball tournament and raises £500 for EFDS events programme
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Get Healthy, Get into Sport
Sport England is launching a pilot scheme called Get Healthy Get into Sport. It will look at how sport can best contribute to improving health and increase weekly participation by people who are least active.
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Discover sport with the EFDS and NDSOs
After a summer packed full of sport, the English Federation of Disability Sport and the National Disability Sport Organisations are working together to ensure all disabled people can be active for life.
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The Dan Maskell Tennis Trust and The Tennis Foundation launch new initiative
The Dan Maskell Tennis Trust (the Trust) and The Tennis Foundation have today launched a new initiative which will see 60 tennis wheelchairs donated for free to tennis venues across Great Britain.
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YMCAfit build momentum with disability course
YMCAfit offer funding for level 2 instructors on their Exercise and Disability Course.
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Move It: increasing young people's participation in sport
After a summer of sport in 2012, a report released by The Young Foundation finds traditional sports focus does not suit all inactive children, who prefer informal, individual activities. The problem is, according to Think Tank, is that we sit at home watc
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WheelPower National Junior Games begin at Stoke Mandeville
Today, the annual WheelPower National Junior Games begin. Over 200 disabled children will take part in the week-long event at Stoke Mandeville Stadium- the birthplace of the Paralympic Games.
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Paddle-Ability Talent Development Programme
The Paddle-Ability Talent Development programme has been developed to help support paddlers with a physical impairment aspiring for selection on to the Paracanoe Training Team.
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Whizz-Kidz ‘Generation Inspired’ Paralympic legacy consultation
Whizz-Kidz is calling on young disabled people to tell them about their hopes for the legacy of the Paralympics, and asking whether they are a generation inspired at the close of the Games.