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GET YOURSELF ACTIVE GRANT Disabled people are more likely to be physically inactive, and Disability Rights UK are taking on the challenge to change the statistics.
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fund was set up to make sure that those who already struggle to access sport and physical activity don’t further lose out as the pandemic shut down organisations across the country.
Healthy results
So far (between August 2020 and March 2021) the GYA team has been able to award a total of 36 grants to Disabled People’s User Led Organisations (DPULOs). These exciting projects have directly and indirectly supported almost 2000 people through fitness, yoga, dance and performance-based activities, sport, peer mentoring and buddying support. From setting up online classes and sessions to planning covid-safe returns to in-person activity, the funding has been crucial in keeping the work of our amazing DPULOs going.
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IN 2020, at the height of the pandemic, Get Yourself Active (GYA), a programme run by Disability Rights UK was selected by Sport England as a Tackling Inequalities Fund (TIF) delivery partner. This fund was set up to provide a lifeline to those organisations that had been adversely impacted by the pandemic. This is especially timely as, according to Sport England’s research, Disabled people are twice as likely to be physically inactive (41%) than those without a disability (20%). With activities and organisations grinding to a halt as a result of coronavirus restrictions, Sport England set out to make sure that Disabled people would not lose the opportunities to participate in sport and physical activity in ways that work for them. The Tackling Inequalities
