On Sunday 21 April, Helen Rowbotham, Access Sport Chief Executive, ran the TSC London Marathon, completing the 26.2-mile course in 4hrs 7 minutes and 59 seconds. Read more
The Inclusive Club Network came together to explore the positive impact Youth Voice can have on community clubs and the young people they work with. Read more
Ignite Bristol, a network of Bristol-based inclusive organisations spearheaded by Access Sport, hosted an inspiring multi-sport activity afternoon last month to engage local disabled girls and non-binary young people. Read more
To celebrate the United Nations’ International Day of Sport for Development and Peace, we are launching our ‘Five Key Changes – Access Sport’s Manifesto for Change’. Read more
Access Sport is pleased to announce the appointment of Shana Lord as our new Inclusive Club Network Manager. Read more
Access Sport is thrilled to launch our new 20 for 20 campaign to celebrate our 20th Anniversary Year. Read more
Access Sport and the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) have been working in partnership to upskill community cricket clubs in disability inclusion. Read more
On Wednesday 28 February, 200 guests attended Access Sport's 20th Anniversary Celebration event. Read more
Access Sport hosted an inclusive multi-sport festival at Bromley College for disabled young people and their families. Read more
On 21 May Access Sport celebrates our 20th Anniversary. This milestone marks two decades of making inclusion the norm in community sport. Read more
On 16 January, Nike athlete and GB Taekwondo World Champion, Aaliyah Powel visited Access Sport’s Changing Places Manchester programme. Read more
Access Sport is searching for young people between the ages of 14 and 25 years old to join our National Youth Board and Regional Youth Voice Groups based in Bristol, London and Manchester. Read more
On Thursday 18 January, Access Sport’s Inclusive Club Network came together for a webinar focusing on Neuroinclusion in community sport. Read more
Access Sport welcomes two-time Paralympic bronze medal winner, Gaz Choudhry, MBE, as our newest Ambassador. Read more
On Thursday 7 December, Access Sport’s Inclusive Club Network came together for a webinar focusing on empowering ‘trusted adults’ to support young people in the community. Read more
Order an Access Sport E-card this festive season to support disadvantaged and disabled young people across the country. Read more
Over the last three years, City Bridge Foundation, London’s biggest independent charity funder, has supported Access Sport to reshape disability-inclusive community sport across the capital. Read more
Ignite Bristol and Access Sport hosted an inspiring multi-sport festival over the weekend to engage local disabled young people in community sport. Read more
On 9 November, Access Sport was joined by 70 influential guest at an exclusive networking event in Bristol – An Evening with Access Sport. Read more
Access Sports is delighted to announce a new partnership with Basketball England, the national governing body for English basketball. Read more
To support Access Sport’s research into how inclusive sport can build stronger communities, we are asking community sport clubs to participate in a short survey. Read more
On Thursday 26 October, Access Sport’s Inclusive Club Network came together for a webinar focusing on Changing Lives Through Disability Inclusion. Read more
Access Sport is thrilled to announce a new partnership with Legacy Leisure and Lex Leisure to pilot a game-changing inclusive community sport offer centred around Leisure centres. Read more
On the 21 September Access Sport launched the Inclusive Club Network with our Make Clubs for Girls webinar. This brilliant event brought clubs together to celebrate female inclusion in community sport and featured Kate Richardson-Walsh OBE, Tanya Martin from Women in Sport and showcases from Cornwall BMX and Stretford FC. Read more
Access Sport is thrilled to unveil our Annual Review for 2022 – 2023. Read more
In December two inspirational teams, Tide Waves and For Better Oar Worse, will participate in the world’s toughest row across the mighty Atlantic Ocean to raise funds for Access Sport’s vital work. Read more
Access Sport has had three placement students as part of the team over the last year. They have all made a terrific impact and supported us on our ongoing mission to make inclusion the norm in community sport. We are incredibly grateful for their contribution. Read more
To help support this project, Access Sport are asking teenage girls and young women that are disabled, have a long-term health condition or are neurodivergent to take part in a survey. Read more
This network will bring together community sports clubs that are transforming the lives of disadvantaged and disabled young people from across the UK. Read more
Last night, 70 influential guests attended our exclusive networking event in Manchester to celebrate our work with disadvantaged and disabled young people in the area. Read more
Access Sport has hosted a summer of sport in Bristol to encourage disabled and underserved young people to experience the benefits of community sport. Read more
Access Sport is thrilled to announce a new partnership with the Hoopsfix Foundation, the charitable arm of the UK’s leading basketball media and events platform. Read more
On 9 July 2023, SCHWIM, an amazing team of Access Sport fundraisers, took on the daunting challenge of swimming across the English Channel to support us in our continued mission to make inclusion the norm. Read more
On 22 July, Access Sport’s Youth Board organised an inclusive sports festival at the Sports Club Thamesmead for disabled young people and their families. Read more
On Friday 14 June, Access Sport hosted the London School Games at the Lee Valley Olympic BMX track for the first time since the pandemic. With over 70 young people from across London participating, it was an inspiring day of inclusive community sport! Read more
Last week Access Sport hosted the Manchester Inclusive Schools Festival at Bowdon Hockey, Squash & Cricket Club in partnership with Manchester United Foundation. Read more
Last weekend Access Sport hosted our annual inclusive sports festival at Ladywell Fields in Lewisham for D/deaf and disabled children and young people and their families. Read more
Today Access Sport celebrates the one-year anniversary of our ongoing partnership with the UK’s largest healthcare charity, Nuffield Health. Read more
London Marathon Foundation has announced they will be supporting Access Sport and our mission to transform young disadvantage/disabled people's lives over the next three years. Read more
On the 8th of July 2023, Matt Dawson, a valued trustee of Access Sport, is taking on the impressive challenge of consecutively swimming the 13 publicly accessible lakes in the English Lake District, which equates to just over 70kms of swimming! Read more
Access Sport has had five placement students as part of the team over the last nine months. They have made incredibly valuable contributions to our work including running sport sessions with young people, organising events and running social media campaigns. Here is Tom ’s story. Read more
The Ignite Bristol Multi-Sports Festival 2023 took place on the 30th May. It is the biggest disability sports event in Bristol providing sporting taster sessions for children and young people who often don’t know what is available to them in the local community. Read more
The Include Summit is the UK’s largest conference focussed on equality, diversity and inclusion in sport. Read more
Access Sport proudly awarded Rhys Parry Volunteer of the Year at our annual Stand for Inclusion dinner in March 2023. He is role model and inspiration to young people. Read more
The new partnership will see 100s of community cricket coaches, volunteers and young leaders upskilled in disability inclusion. Read more
Redbridge Spitfires epitomises the inclusive nature of the clubs Access Sport works with. Congratulations to them on winning this year’s Inclusive Club of the Year Award! Read more
Having had experience working with disabled children and seeing the difference just one person can make to their day really inspired me to want to work in this field. Read more
This could not be a more exciting time to join our Board of Trustees and support the charity. We appointed a new CEO at the start of 2022 and launched a new growth strategy and brand refresh in July 2022. Read more
We’re really excited about the year ahead whilst contributing our collective voices to the wider work Access Sport delivers to support marginalised young people. Read more
To mark the UN’s International Day of Sport for Development and Peace day on April 6th, we are choosing to highlight how and why we are contributing to Stronger Communities and Social Cohesion. Read more
Ambassadors, awards winners, partners and friends joined us at the iconic Bluebird restaurant in Chelsea to celebrate Access Sport's work with disadvantaged and disabled children, and to raise much needed funds. Read more
Following the success of the first Active Together Festival in 2022, SISPAN hosted their second event at LSBU Active on Sunday 19th February 2023. Read more
Access Sport invites tenders to evaluate how it’s programmes contribute to building stronger communities. Read more
Access Sport is delighted to announce it has been chosen as the official charity partner for Verastar, the UK’s leading provider of essential business services to small businesses Read more
Local bus provider Stagecoach Manchester has announced its support of Access Sport and our partners Nuffield Health, by raising awareness of the many inclusive sporting opportunities being created in the region. Read more
Access Sport has been working with Wrestle for Humanity in Bristol to launch new sessions incorporating a unique combination of dance, wrestling movement, mindfulness and music. Read more
Access Sport has been working with StreetEnvy, a Bristol dance school, to offer pan-disability street dance sessions for three different age groups. Read more
Access Sport’s inclusive cycling sessions for young people in Little Hulton, Salford, has won the support of ForHousing Read more
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Following the success of the summer event, Access Sport and Ignite Bristol host a second multi-sport festival to showcase the range of inclusive activity in Bristol. Read more
An update from the Chair of our Youth Board, Dren Matoshi, as he looks back at the Youth Board’s activities this year. Read more
Over 40 BMX jerseys were donated to children attending Access Sport’s skate and BMX cycling half term sessions at Stockwood Bike Park in South Bristol by local partners Presca and Stuff4Life. Read more
Access Sport Kicks-Off Grassroots Disability Inclusion Offer For Rugby League Community Clubs. Read more
In the last year our work has expanded into Salford, building a brand-new community cycling facility, and with our exciting new partnership with Nuffield Health we are delighted to have significantly expanded our team with a goal to reach 15,000 young people by 2024. Read more
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Access Sport can deliver inclusive cycling sessions for primary school, secondary school, home education, PRU and club groups for up to 15 participants at your local cycling facility. Read more
Article by Tom Dixon, Director of Fundraising and Communications Read more
Access Sport in partnership with Peabody delivered an inclusive sports festival for D/deaf and disabled children and their families in Greenwich and Bexley to promote and celebrate pan-disability sport and physical activity. Read more
The brand new ‘all wheels’ track was launched by partners of the project – Access Sport, Sheffield City Council Parks & Countryside Service, Move More and Sheffield Hallam University. Read more
Commonwealth Games Champion and Paralympian, Olivia Breen, becomes an Access Sport Ambassador Read more
Access Sport in partnership with WECIL and Out & About Consortium hosted the Ignite Bristol Inclusive Multi-Sport Festival on Sunday 10th July for disabled adults, children, and their families in St Pauls, Bristol. Read more
Access Sport launches new brand and growth strategy. Read more
Madam Mayor, Cllr Hannah Gray joined Access Sport to officially open Hoblingwell Cycle Track on Wednesday 22nd June, supported by young people, school groups, key partners and organisations from the local area. Read more
Access Sport in partnership with Lewisham Council and Southeast London Tennis hosted an inclusive sports festival in Lewisham for D/deaf and disabled children and young people and their families. Read more
Pupils from Woodlands Academy join Access Sport partners and Olympic Medallist, Declan Brooks, to officially open Stockwood Bike Park in Bristol. Read more
Access Sport Manchester caught the eye of journalist Megan Armitage as they raise their game to meet growing demand. Megan visits two of the newest inclusive sports opportunities, Bowdon Flyerz Hockey Club and the newly built BMX track in Little Hulton, Salford. Click to read the Mancunian Matters article. Read more
Olympic Freestyle BMX bronze medallist and Access Sport ambassador, Declan Brooks, will join Access Sport to open an exciting new cycling facility in Stockwood, Bristol on Thursday 12th May. Read more
On Wednesday 13th April, Access Sport joined forces with Bristol Bears Community Foundation under the Ignite Bristol banner to organise a Multi-Sport Festival for disabled children and young people in Southmead, Bristol. Read more
The SISPAN partnership was successful in receiving London Together Funding from Comic Relief and the Mayor’s Fund and on Saturday 2nd April, hosted the first pan-disability inclusive sports festival at Surrey Docks Watersports and Fitness Centre. Read more
Access Sport Oxfordshire is a new collaboration between Active Oxfordshire and Access Sport in response to fast-growing need in the area so that more children can benefit from inclusive sports opportunities. Read more
In this article we look at the new CMO guidelines published in February and explore some key questions about what they might mean for disabled children and their families. Read more
Thanks to the support of the London Marathon Charitable Trust, we’re delighted to offer £200 club grants to enable more clubs to welcome new riders. Read more
Access Sport is delighted to announce that we are joining forces with the UK’s largest healthcare charity, Nuffield Health, in an innovative new project to combine resources and expertise to tackle the unmet needs of 15,000 disadvantaged local young people and their families in the next two years. Read more
Access Sport is delighted to announce a new 3-year partnership with The National Lottery Community Fund aiming to give all D/deaf and disabled young people in London equal access to sport and physical activity. Read more
Over the past year the Youth Board have provided valuable feedback and ideas to support Access Sport across its Programmes. Read more
Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) takes place on Thursday 27th January 2022. It’s a time to pause and remember the six million Jews, 350,000 D/deaf and disabled people and other groups who lost their lives. Read more
Access Sport contributes to the new report published by Sport for Development Coalition. Read more
Olympic BMX medallists Charlotte Worthington and Declan Brooks ‘Jingle Jamming’ for Access Sport! Read more
Over 200 players, family members, coaches, and volunteers kicked off the hockey season in style, attending the Flyerz Festival South hosted by Falcon Flyerz HC & Tunbridge Wells HC Flyerz. Read more
Access Sport is pleased to announce the appointment of Helen Rowbotham as its new Chief Executive. Helen will be joining the organisation in January 2022. Read more
Matthew Dawson, Access Sport trustee, is one of the Trust’s 40 charity runners who have been invited to take part in the marathon to celebrate its 40th anniversary. Read more
Access Sport imagine a future where every child has access to a bike, the skills and confidence to ride and a safe space to ride near home. Exciting off-road facilities make this possible, so it is brilliant to announce that the re-development of Stockwood Bike Track has begun. Read more
The Paralympic Games are brilliant and for two weeks every four years, disability sport is in the spotlight. But with disabled people in the UK only half as likely as non-disabled people to play sport regularly, we must do more to capitalise on the Paralympic flame and ensure that disabled people get the chance to take part in activities week-in, week-out every year. Read more
As part of the Making Trax Cycling Inclusion Programme, Access Sport, alongside a number of key partners has supported the development of a new BMX track located in Peel Park, Little Hulton, Salford. Read more
To celebrate the success of Team GB BMX at the Olympics, Access Sport is offering clubs a £500 grant to put on open days so more people can try BMX. And to encourage more girls to start riding, Access Sport is also offering £500 to clubs to run sessions for girls. Read more
Bethany Shriever and Kye Whyte’s Olympic success in Tokyo shows what can be done with investment in cycling at grassroots level. But if we are to inspire the next Beth or Kye and unlock the potential of cycling to build a more active nation, we must provide more opportunities for young people to get into cycling. Read more