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Nimbus Disability And Principality Stadium Celebrate Bronze Award For Accessibility Initiative Of The Year At Essma Stadium Industry Awards
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My First Christmas Living With A Disability
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2024 Enable Role Model List: Celebrating 50 Global Leaders Driving Workplace Inclusion For Disability, Neurodiversity And Mental Health
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BAFTA Breakthrough 2024: Spotlighting The Talent And Advocacy Of Disabled Artists In The Creative Industry
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Breaking Down The Inclusion And Accessibility Barriers In Sport

Nimbus Disability has supported and helped facilitate a collaborative research project, which has marked a summer of sport in Europe by publishing a report that highlights the accessibility barriers in sport faced by disabled people wanting to participate and watch sport.

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Channel 4 Unveils Ground-Breaking Presenting Line-Up And Biggest-Ever Broadcast Plans For Paris 2024 Paralympic Games

The Paris 2024 Paralympic Games is set to be the biggest-ever broadcast on Channel 4 with over 1,300 hours of live sport and a ground-breaking presenting line-up.

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Kearan Gibbs: Disabled Cricketer Born With No Hands Learnt His Spin Technique By Legendary Shane Warne

Kearan Gibbs – who has a rare congenital anomaly that led to him being born without hands – was convinced by cricketer Shane Warne that cricket was the sport for him. Kearan met the legendary spinner at Hampshire’s Ageas Bowl when he was 11 years old and has gone on to have a successful career as a disabled cricketer.

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Callum Flynn: A Physically Disabled Cricketer Fulfilling His Sporting Dreams

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Riding Against The Odds: My Journey As A Para Dressage Rider With EDS

In the world of para-dressage, where resilience and determination reign supreme, one athlete’s journey stands out as a testament to the indomitable spirit of those who overcome adversity. This is the story of how Victoria Hoban, found her way into the world of para-dressage, battled Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), and encountered a surprising hurdle on the path to her Paralympic dreams.

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Are Sports Broadcasters Ableist Towards Disability Sports?

When people think of disability sports, most of them immediately think of the Paralympic Games. However, disability sport happens throughout the year, every year. But it isn’t noticed as much because it’s not widely broadcast. This has sparked the question – are sports broadcasters ableist? Our writer Emma Purcell analyses the current level of disability sports coverage and shares her thoughts on it.

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Disability Cricket Is Gaining More Exposure On Sky Sports

The second season of the Disability Premier League (DPL) has been taking place over the past two weeks and the final is scheduled to be broadcast on Sky Sports on Wednesday 6th September, giving more exposure to disability cricket.

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Shelbée Clarke: Amputee Footballer Supporting SEND Children To Access The Beautiful Game

We speak to Shelbée Clarke about going through bone cancer and having her leg amputated, getting into amputee football, setting up her SEND club SSG Celestials and winning the Bobby Moore Award.

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Every Body Moves: ParalympicsGB And Toyota Launches Initiative To Help Disabled People Access Sport

ParalympicsGB and Toyota have announced the launch of the groundbreaking Every Body Moves initiative to empower disabled people to become active in a way that is right for them.