Get Yourself Active, the Disability Rights UK programme that focuses on increasing Disabled people’s participation in sport and physical activity, has been named a system partner by the arms-length body for grassroots sport: Sport England.
Becoming a system partner means Get Yourself Active will receive investment and support from Sport England and exchange knowledge and expertise as we work together to co-deliver the ambitions of its 10-year Uniting the Movement strategy.
Anna Denham, Programme Manager at Get Yourself Active said: “Since we began in 2015, we have worked tirelessly to increase Disabled people’s participation in sport and physical activity so that everyone can experience its benefits. When our work began, we quickly saw how barriers prevent Disabled people from getting active. It wasn’t that Disabled people didn’t want to get involved, but that many preventable barriers were stopping them.
Becoming a system partner means Get Yourself Active will receive investment and support from Sport England. We will exchange knowledge and expertise as we work together to co-deliver the ambitions of its 10-year Uniting the Movement strategy. It means that we can continue to centre Disabled people’s voices to remove barriers and change lives for the better.
“We are relishing the opportunity to make sure Disabled people across the country exercise their right to get active however they want. We know that this support means that more Disabled people will have the chance to feel good and have fun wherever they are.”
More details can be found on the Get Yourself Active website.
