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Deaf Awareness Week: Inclusive Community Training connects volunteers
In Deaf Awareness Week, Sainsbury’s Active Kids for All Inclusive Community Training is a great way to connect volunteers and build new relationships.
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Tilly's story: Sailing my own boat is so uplifting
Tilly Griffiths has been sailing since first sitting on her mum’s lap in a boat aged three. At seven she took the tiller of a dinghy for the first time and never looked back.
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Vote for our Reach project to win £25,000 Aviva Community Fund
The English Federation of Disability Sport (EFDS) is proud to have the new Reach project nominated for this year's Aviva Community Fund. We're asking our supporters to vote for us during May and help us to win £25,000.
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Deaf Awareness Week: Connect and communicate in sport and physical activity
In Deaf Awareness Week, EFDS recognises the importance that inclusive communications play to increase deaf people's participation in sport and physical activity.
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BBC Kick Off trainee sports reporter scheme - now open
The BBC Kick Off Trainee Sports Reporter Scheme gives talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds the opportunity to learn and develop sports reporting skills at the BBC.
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Blog: Inclusive communications is about people, not just disabled people
May's theme is communications. In the first blog of the month Sarah Marl, Marketing and Communications Manager at EFDS, discusses how inclusive communications helps those in sport and physical activity to reach more people, especially disabled people.
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CP Sport unveils Nottingham 2015 CPISRA World Games mascot
With 100 days to go until the Nottingham 2015 CPISRA World Games, Cerebral Palsy Sport have unveiled the official Games mascot to the world.
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Defending champions line up for 2015 National Deaf Tennis Championships
Organised by the Tennis Foundation, the National Deaf Tennis Championships are a domestic highlight of the deaf tennis season, offering experienced and up-and-coming players the chance to compete side-by-side.
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Swimming sensation Ellie Simmonds to open National Dwarf Games 2015
This weekend the Dwarf Sports Association UK host the 22nd National Dwarf Games in Birmingham. Opening the Games this year is Double Paralympic Champion Ellie Simmonds OBE.
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Para Tri announces Ottobock UK as its first official sponsor
Para Tri, the UK’s first ever stand-alone mass-participation sports event dedicated to disabled people, has partnered with global mobility specialist Ottobock UK for its inaugural event on 9 August 2015.
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Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week: Two fitness fanatics
As part of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Awareness Week, EFDS examines the experiences of two fitness fanatics who manage their conditions while still keeping fit, healthy and happy.
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Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson confirmed as ukactive Chair
Crossbench Peer and EFDS's Honorary President Tanni Grey-Thompson has been announced as the new independent Chair of not-for-profit health body ukactive.