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Blog: 'Communicating effectively is a skill that coaches need to develop'
May's theme is communications. This week, Stuart Harrison, lead tutor and volunteer with UK Deaf Sport, discusses a unique, and valuable, training experience for sports coaches.
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Deaf Awareness Week: Connect and communicate in sport and physical activity
In Deaf Awareness Week, EFDS recognises the importance that inclusive communications play to increase deaf people's participation in sport and physical activity.
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Blog: Inclusive communications is about people, not just disabled people
May's theme is communications. In the first blog of the month Sarah Marl, Marketing and Communications Manager at EFDS, discusses how inclusive communications helps those in sport and physical activity to reach more people, especially disabled people.
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Blog: 'That exercise-induced buzz gives people real confidence'
April's theme is local opportunities. For the final week this month, MANFIT's Dr Margaret Tyson discusses giving disabled people confidence, staging a variety of sports and seeing participants making friends.
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Blog: 'We are proud to be a member-run club whose history now spans 40 years'
April's theme is local opportunities. This week, SportsAble’s Melissa Paulden discusses a ruby anniversary for a charity committed to staying close to its roots.
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Blog: 'Cycling is the most wonderful, joyful activity'
April's blog theme is local opportunities. Nat Cato, from London-based charity Wheels for Wellbeing, discusses helping people of all needs and abilities climb aboard a cycle, often for the first time.
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Blog: 'EFDS likes to share great examples of better practice'
April's blog theme is local opportunities. EFDS National Partnerships Advisor, Jess Cook, looks at providing a vital link between groups and County Sports Partnerships, and trying to meet the needs of all.
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Blog: 'Inclusivity and accessibility is central to all our CSP team's work'
Paul Kreczak of Tees Valley Sport discusses funding changes and striking gold in the hunt for local sport provision for disabled people.
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Blog: 'We’re encouraging people to create new habits'
Anne Boyd, Chief Executive for Active Cheshire, discusses harnessing the local hairdressers, Plato’s words of wisdom and the Count Me In programme.
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Blog: 'Hearing disabled people's voices through research is immensely powerful'
2CV, a consumer research agency who work closely with EFDS, share some of their tips and techniques having worked with disabled people for many years.
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Blog: 'No two days are the same in research'
February's theme of blogs is research and insight, and our Manchester-based team explains their roles within EFDS and their work to support the charity.
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Blog: 'Every school should undertake this training'
For the last post of January, Karen Erikson, Director of PE, Sport and Community at Arbour Vale School in Slough, discusses the Sainsbury's Active Kids for All Inclusive PE.
