Former Paralympian Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson has teamed up with Sport England to launch an £8 million fund to get more disabled people playing sport.
A wide range of organisations with the ideas and expertise to open up more sporting opportunities for disabled people will be able to bid for £10,000 and over of National Lottery funding from Sport England.
The fund – Inclusive Sport – will help to tackle the opportunity gap that sees just one in six disabled adults playing sport regularly, compared to one in three non-disabled adults. Currently 17.6 per cent of disabled people play sport at least once a week, up from 15.1 per cent in 2005/6 when the Olympic bid was won.
The investment is part of the Places People Play legacy programme that is bringing the inspiration and magic of a home Olympic and Paralympic Games into communities all over the country. Details of the fund can be found at www.sportengland.org/funding. Bids to Inclusive Sport will be accepted until 5pm on 13 August 2012.
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