Prior to the final event in Rome, the third issue of the MIXAR Magazine is now available! You can read about the development of Mixed Ability rugby in Italy, Spain, Belgium, Ireland, and the UK. Click on the picture to download your...
Siamo lieti di annunciare che la Città di Torino ha deciso di comparire tra i firmatari del Manifesto IMAS per lo Sport Mixed Ability, che lotta per l'abbattimento delle barriere alla partecipazione delle persone in condizioni di svantaggioo o di disabilità. Per...
Mike O’Regan began a life changing journey as he assisted his son, other players and their families, his own rugby club and now a Rugby Union Premiership side to join the Mixed Ability movement. I started the Surrey Chargers after reading an...
Lo sport può essere motore di cambiamento sociale, può abbattere pregiudizi, educare e creare nuovi modelli di partecipazione. Solo però se davvero riesce ad essere inclusivo. Per questo IMAS è grata di poter contare sull’appoggio di CoorDown, organizzazione da...
The second issue of the MIXAR Magazine is now available! You can read about the development of Mixed Ability rugby in Italy, Spain, Belgium, Ireland, and the UK. Click on the picture to download your...
If you want to live a long and healthy life have good genes, be able (rich enough) to live in a healthy environment, have “good” health behaviours and access good healthcare – not too much and not too little. Timely, effective healthcare makes a difference but is...
As a profoundly deaf player with cerebral palsy Tom may have felt that contact rugby wasn’t going to be a possibility. However, it is just 3 months since his first training session and he has already represented Derby RFC in a full contact match and visited Sixways...
When Bradford Amateur Rowing Club (BARC) decided to give Mixed Ability (MA) rowing a go, they had no idea how it would transform their club. Fortunately, International Mixed Ability Sports (IMAS) decided to track the club’s Mixed Ability journey and this blog...
IMAS celebrates the award of the Royal College of General Practitioners President’s Medal to Mixed Ability Health Champion Dr Mark Purvis. The Royal College of General Practice is the professional membership body for GPs in the UK. Its purpose is to encourage,...
Sundays Well RFC is home to the first Irish Mixed Ability Rugby Team – Sundays Well Rebels. The team began training together in January 2014 and almost 5 years later have experienced an amazing journey including two Mixed Ability World Tournaments (IMART) and...
Last weekend, Sundays Well RFC hosted the 3rd Erasmus Plus #MIXAR project at the Irish Independent Park, in Cork. Over 40 delegates from Italy, the United Kingdom, Spain, Belgium and Ireland resumed the discussion started in Bradford few months ago, and shared...
It was a glorious autumn afternoon in Cork when Sunday’s Well Rebels stepped out onto Irish Independent Park to play their first match officially sanctioned by the IRFU. It was fitting that their opponents were Bradford’s Bumble Bees, England’s first Mixed Ability...
IMAS is proud to be the strategic partner of the EU-funded Erasmus+ Sport MIXAR (Mixed Ability Rugby for All) project. The project aims to replicate the success of Mixed Ability rugby in Italy, Spain, Belgium and Ireland, working alongside prestigious partners such...
England Rugby and Sport Relief have announced that Bradford based International Mixed Ability Sports (IMAS) are one of six latest projects to be awarded Try for Change grants. Aimed at supporting charities, community groups and grassroots rugby clubs in England,...
With IMART 2017 fast approaching, we are delighted to present the educational activities which will take place alongside the Tournament. You can find the full schedule here Cartel Via Académica IMART INGLES...
IMAS–International Mixed Ability Sports is pleased to announce that The Barbarians Rugby Charitable Trust has donated £ 5,000 to the 1st Mixed Ability Rugby World Tournament–MARWT which will take place in Bradford West Yorkshire from the 17th to 21st August 2015....
A delegation from IMAS - International Mixed Ability Sports and Bumble Bees RUFC was received Wednesday 4th of February by Sport and Tourism Minister Helen Grant MP. Kevin Pringle and Anthony Brooke presented Helen Grant with a Bumbles' shirt in return for the...
"Nothing about us, without us!", this statement used by the Independent Living Movement for disabled persons, best sums up this extraordinary story of people and sport. "Integrated rugby born in Wales during the '90, to include people with Learning Disabilities -...
