disabled sport news

Central Bedfordshire Council (CBC) has pledged to invest £20.1m in transforming Dunstable Leisure Centre into a community hub. As well as a 25m pool and ... More

Disabled people do not have adequate access to grassroots sport clubs and facilities and there is a "long way to go" before the situation improves, ... More

Everyone Active has won the tender to continue running leisure centres in the London Borough of Havering, with the local council planning to spend £29m ... More

Milanese architects Vittorio Grassi + Partners have designed a fluid multipurpose building for the Italian city of Lamezia Terme, which will host international sporting events ... More

The Panathlon Challenge – a sports charity for disabled school children – received a £54,450 (US$78,329, €71,684) funding boost from Boris Johnson to celebrate its ... More

Joyce Cook OBE, the founder of the Centre for Access to Football in Europe (CAFE), is one of four new appointments to the board of ... More

Almost half of the 17,500 additional disabled people playing regular sport are taking part in football, as the Football Association’s (FA) £3.2m (US$4.9m, €4.4m) participation ... More

The government is to launch a survey into the treatment of disabled people at UK stadiums and sports venues. Disabled sports fans will be encouraged ... More

Disabled people are more likely to respond to activities which connect to their everyday values, according to a new report by the English Federation of ... More

An advert for beer brand Guinness, depicting a group of friends playing wheelchair basketball, has gone viral and could change the perception of disability sport ... More

The swimming pool access system Poolpod is set to continue with further installations following the London 2012 Games. London 2012 Paralympic swimmer Susie Rodgers launched ... More

Image: The new fund aims to increase participation Sport England has joined forces with Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson for the unveiling of a new £8m fund ... More

Taekwondo world champion Sarah Stevenson has been crowned Sportswoman of the Year 2011 at an award ceremony hosted by the BBC's Gill Douglas in Central ... More

Children's Able and Disabled Sport (CADS), Cheshire, has been revealed as one of the seven winning schemes of the National Lottery Awards 2010. CADS picked ... More

Three projects have been named as finalists in the Best Sport Category of the National Lottery Awards 2010, which aim to recognise the contribution of ... More

A major new plan to deliver a lasting legacy from the 2012 Olympics for 10 million disabled people across the country has been unveiled by ... More

Link4Life has announced the winners of its annual Rochdale Borough Community Sports Awards. Held at the new Middleton Arena and sponsored by Greater Manchester Weekly ... More

Beijing Olympians have dominated the Queen's New year Honours List for their services to sport and disabled sport. Three-time Beijing gold medal cyclist Chris Hoy ... More