NEWS UPDATE
Sheffi eld to host 2017 National Summer Games
Special Olympics GB has confi rmed its 2017 National Summer Games will be held in Sheffi eld from Monday 7 August to Friday 11 August 2017. Held every four years, the Games is the largest disability sports event in the UK and features nearly 2,000 athletes with intellectual (learning) disabilities, competing across 12 sports. Venues for the Games will include the Sheffi eld Hallam University City Athletics Stadium; Sheffi eld City Trust’s Ponds Forge International Sports Centre; Hillsborough Leisure Centre; Concord Sports Centre; Graves Tennis and Leisure Centre; the English Institute of Sport Sheffi eld and Forge Valley School.
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A total of 1,250 schools across the country got involved in the action this summer ASDA challenge activates 60,000 youngsters
Approximately 7,500 trained sports leaders helped over 61,000 young people run, jump, skip and dance their way to activity participation this summer as part of a widespread schools initiative. Starting back in April, 360 Asda Active
The facility will be the fi rst of its kind
Dedicated para-sports facility planned for Scots
Scotland’s fi rst dedicated para- sports facility is to be built at the Sportscotland National Sports Centre Inverclyde in Largs, Ayrshire. The £9m development, the fi rst of its kind anywhere in the UK, will ensure disabled athletes can train at world-class, fully integrated, multi-sports facilities. As part of the work, a total of 60 fully adapted, disability-friendly residential rooms will be created at the centre. Funding will be provided in its entirety by the government and Sportscotland. The centre is set to be completed in 2016.
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Sports Days – powered by Sports Leaders UK – were set up throughout Britain, with a majority hosted in areas of deprivation identifi ed by the government’s Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD). In partnership with Asda Community
Life, ukactive and Spirit of 2012, Sports Leaders UK helped organise these free events for schools, most within a
10-minute drive of their local Asda stores, as 1,250 schools got involved. The children tried out a wide variety of different sports, with a focus on participation over competition. Sessions ranged from more traditional sports day fun and games, to taster sessions in activities such as archery, Zumba, tennis and basketball. Events ranged in size from 25 to 1,000 participants, but all shared the common goal of introducing young people to the benefi ts of leading healthy lifestyles through greater physical activity and better food choices. Read more:
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Cockroft: disabled children “missing out on sport”
Double Paralympic gold medalist Hannah Cockroft has called for more emphasis to be placed on providing disabled children with equal sporting opportunities at school. Responding to the fi ndings of a new
Hannah Cockroft (second from right) with children at a Youth Sport Trust event
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survey from the Youth Sport Trust, Cockroft said that ensuring better quality PE is “desperately needed” for young disabled students in mainstream schools. 73 per cent of leaders working in disability school sport said disabled students in special schools experience higher quality PE. Read more:
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