by Mark | Oct 7, 2022 | Blog, News
New clubs achieve accreditation. Two community clubs of very different sizes and sports were recently recognised for their dedication to inclusion through their Mixed Ability offers. People’s Park Bowls in Grimsby, supported by 2020 Community Sport have established a...
by Mark | Aug 5, 2022 | Blog, News, Sport England
Two pioneering clubs and their journeys to becoming fully inclusive. Picturesque Bingley St Ives golf club in West Yorkshire overlooks the Aire Valley, a route to the beautiful Yorkshire dales. The club has come together with International Mixed Ability Sports (IMAS)...
by Mark | Feb 14, 2022 | Blog, News
Cannons and Dynamite blast a road to inclusion in the South East. When Matt Kuhn and Medway RFC President Mark Marriott attended the England Rugby Mitsubishi Volunteer of the Year Award in August 2021, they couldn’t have foreseen how a conversation with players...
by Mark | Oct 6, 2020 | Awards, Blog, Involving disabled people, Mixed Ability Sports, News, Rugby development
In the beginning…In spring of 2017 following some earlier Mixed Ability training delivered to around ten of the Premiership community rugby teams, IMAS were contacted by former Gloucester Rugby and Samoan international player Terry Fanolua.Terry had identified a great...
by Mark | Aug 10, 2020 | In the Media, Involving disabled people, Mixed Ability Sports, News
Mixed Ability sports participants argue that the involvement of experts by experience in learning, producing teaching resources and delivering their training adds an extra ‘rung’ to the commonly used model, the ‘ladder of co-production. This 20...
