Working with others

Working with, and growing, a Movement

Many organisations and groups share our vision and work to ensure that disabled people can lead active lives. With this support and expertise, we are building a powerful collaborative movement for change. 

We work closely with many organisations. This includes our primary funding partner, Sport England and our founding members, the National Disability Sport Organisations (NDSOs) for people with specific impairments. 

We support organisations across different sectors, including National Governing Bodies (NGBs) of sport and leisure providers. Our improvement work reaches regional, coaching and education networks, including the Active Partnerships, clubs and schools. 

Maximising our engagement

We collaborate with disabled people and organisations to encourage inclusive practice and continuous improvement so more disabled people can be active. Some examples of our impact in this area include:

• Working with Sport England and National Governing Bodies of sport, reviewing course content and feeding back on sport specific inclusion guidance.
• Delivering inclusion workshops for sports and leisure providers across the country.
• Delivering programmes and initiatives including Inclusive Education Hub, Inclusive Activity Programme and Get Out Get Active that drive change for disabled people in sport, education and the community.
• Supporting and delivering high quality events that involve disabled people and working with partners to ensure their events are more inclusive and accessible.

In April 2025 we worked with Women In Sport to produce a new report exploring young people’s perceptions of the Paralympic Games and if young disabled people – especially girls – feel inspired, included, and supported in sport and physical activity. The collaboration brought together our joint expertise in disability and gender inequality to produce a insightful report and set of recommendations on creating a more equal sporting environment for disabled girls.

Adding value to place-based activities

Our strategic partnerships team is the driving force behind much of our work with the sport and leisure sector. We deliver a significant number of partner workshops, regional meetings, and national and county level forums to build partnerships, create networks and share our inclusion expertise.

Our workshops cover several topics, including how to engage disabled people, inclusive communications, research and insight, and disability awareness.

The team’s impact ensures we build relationships within sport and wider. It includes work with National Governing Bodies of sport, reviewing course content and feeding back on guidance. We support other organisations to raise funds to deliver their programmes and opportunities.

Our Leading Inclusion workshop continues to ensure organisations are improving their offer for disabled people. In November 2024, Active Sussex implemented a Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan (DIAP), following a two-day Leading Inclusion workshop. This plan demonstrates Active Sussex’s commitment to promoting, embedding, and advancing diversity and inclusion on its Board, staff team, and beyond and identifies the actions needed to achieve, support, and maintain their ambitions.

Working with Sport England’s club team, we refreshed the new Disability Inclusion Club Hub, now known as Buddle, for clubs and others.

Delivering programmes

Activity Alliance has a successful track record in delivering programmes and initiatives that drive change for disabled people in sport, education and the community.

• In May 2022, we created a new online platform for the education sector in partnership with Youth Sport Trust and the Department of Education. The Inclusion 2024 Inclusive Education Hub is designed to support more teachers responsible for PE and school sport to engage more disabled students.
• In October 2022, we relaunched a new version of the Inclusive Activity Programme complete with accreditation from CIMSPA and continual professional development points for learners. Since the re-launch we have seen increased interest from organisations such as National Governing Bodies of sport for their coaching and development workforces.
• In July we released a very positive impact report for our flagship programme Get Out Get Active (GOGA). Designed to support disabled and non-disabled people to enjoy being active together, GOGA has reached over 160,000 people since its inception in 2016. In May 2025 we were pleased to report that thanks to funding from Sport England, the programme will continue in Wiltshire, Black Country, Amber Valley, Blackpool and the Foundation of Light in Sunderland for another year.

Inclusive events

Our expert events team supports and delivers high quality events that involve disabled people. They also work with partners to ensure more events are inclusive.

Each year, we host the National Junior Para-Swimming Championships and the National Junior Athletics Championships where hundreds of young athletes compete in these well-established pathway events.

For more than 30 years, Activity Alliance has provided inclusion and accessibility expertise for the London Marathon wheelchair race. Our events team and group of experienced volunteers assist more than 50 wheelchair racers over the weekend to ensure they has a seamless race experience.

International friends

In March 2025, staff from Activity Alliance travelled to Canada to meet with staff from the Abilities Centre. Their work has been heavily influenced by Leading Inclusion, our organisational improvement programme. With our guidance they have developed a comprehensive and innovative approach to inclusion and accessibility to meet the needs of disabled people in communities across Canada.