Sport Opportunity Programme - Committed to ensuring people with physical, intellectual, hearing, visual and mental health disabilities can participate in inclusive sport and active leisure in their communities.
- Works with providers of sport and physical activity and provide them with the skills, knowledge and confidence for the inclusion of disabled people into their activities within the community.
- Sport Opportunity Advisor works in the following areas:
- Regional Sports Trust
- Education, including Early Childhood
- Clubs
- Community
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Regional Sports Trust The Sport Opportunity Advisor provides support to Regional Sports Trust programmes to ensure they are inclusive of disabled people. Programmes & Services | |
Education The Sport Opportunity Advisor works with early childhood, primary, intermediate and secondary schools to ensure all physical education, physical activity, sport, interschool sport and education outside the classroom programmes are inclusive of disabled students. The Sport Opportunity Advisor could: - Work 1 to 1 with individual students
- Work with management to develop a No Exceptions Action Plan (NEAP)
NEAP - Deliver No Exceptions Training Workshops for staff professional development
No Exceptions Training Workshops - Work with event organisers to ensure disabled students have participation and competition opportunities
Event Calendar - Offer funding opportunities to enable disabled children's participation in physical activities
Activity Grant - Assist with te provision of adequate resources and appropriate equipment
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Clubs Sport Opportunity Advisor works with clubs to ensure they are fully inclusive in their programmes and services. The Sport Opportunity Advisor might: - Work 1 to 1 linking disabled people into realistic and meaningful sports alongside their able bodied peers
- Work strategically developing a No Exceptions Action Plan
NEAP - Deliver No Exceptions Training Workshops
No Exceptions Training Workshops - Assist with the provision of adequate resources and appropriate equipment
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Community The Sport Opportunity Advisor works with the community to ensure there are participation opportunities in community physical activities and events. The Sport Opportunity Advisor might: - Work 1 to 1 with disabled people linking them into the community physical activities
- Work with community providers to ensure their programmes and events are inclusive of disabled people
No Exceptions - Work with the community raising awareness of inclusion using the media and other promotional material.
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