TENNIS
EVERYONE FOR TENNIS!
After the success of the Paralympic Games, the Dan Maskell Trust is embracing the new-found momentum of disability sport by increasing wheelchair tennis opportunities and encouraging long-term participation. Gilly English, executive director of the trust, explains
‘P
ivotal’ describes the phenomenal success of the London 2012 Para- lympic Games. How we in the UK, and indeed how the world views
disability sport has changed forever. Along with able-bodied sport, disabil-
ity sport in the UK experienced the red carpet treatment in 2012. An earmarked £8m of funding from Sport England’s Places People Play programme was boost- ed with a further £2.8m fund to help
increase both participation and inclusiv- ity at the grassroots and the spotlight also shone on the long-standing passion and expertise which underpins disability sports organisations around the UK. At the elite level, the UK has a strong
tradition in Paralympic sport but with only 17 per cent of disabled adults play- ing sport every week, there’s no doubt much more needs to be done to boost overall participation. This point was the
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focus of the government’s first Disabil- ity Sport Summit in April this year, when the then Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, called for the sport sector to up its game in attracting disabled people into sport. He said: “In the year that the Para-
lympic Games come home, I want to see a transformation in sport for disabled people. Now is the time for everybody to up their game, creating real sporting op- portunities for disabled people.”
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