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 Good Practice

These good practice examples show inclusive projects and activities that are taking place across London. We hope they encourage and inspire you to involve everyone and make your club or facility part of an inclusive and active capital.

 North London
Cirque Nova
Started in January 2009, in Haringey, Cirque Nova is an inclusive contemporary circus and street art performance project. Open to anyone interested in circus skills, Circus Nova provides educational programs and workshops for an initial five week programme with an option to extend this training. Cirque Nova offers disabled people and non-disabled people the opportunity to train, develop and perform circus acts together. This inclusion has increased participation levels and working in partnership, Cirque Nova will continue to grow and develop.

Barnet Bulldogs Basketball Club
Based at Burnt Oak Leisure Centre, Barnet Bulldogs Basketball Club includes disabled people in Basketball. The club is open to all impairment groups but has had great success including girls with autism in their mainstream basketball training, The club is self supporting, run by volunteers and works in partnership with Barnet Council to establish new programmes and working to be more inclusive.

All 2-Gether Now
Started in September 2008, All 2-Gether Now is a 12-18 month project delivered by Tottenham Hotspur Foundation across North London to provide general disability awareness training within mainstream and specific disability sports. The project aims to increase participation by empowering teachers to include their disabled students in PE and school sports. The training is open to any teachers or sports leaders, many of which are volunteers.
Funded by Capital Radio and delivered as a working partnership between Pro-Active North London, London Sports Forum for Disabled People, Tottenham Hotspur Foundation, Arsenal FC, Enhance, others sports bodies as required and all the schools / SSPs that get involved, the project aims to change the culture within schools and embed sustainable inclusion.
All 2-Gether Now links up local providers and would be easily repeated across London and the UK. The project has great potential growth through volunteer and or teacher training funding.

Barnet East School Sports Partnership's Disability Sports Day
On Friday 20th June 2008 Barnet East School Sports Partnership provided a multisports day at Bishop Douglass School. The event was for disabled students from mainstream schools, with the aim of including groups who are not traditionally involved in sport and physical activity.
The event used sports leaders from schools within the Partnership to help run the event and was a great success with over 70 disabled students who would not usually take part in school sport events participating.
2008 was the first event run in north London by a school sports partnership for disabled students in mainstream schools and will be developed for future years. It has also inspired new afterschool clubs, providing inclusive, sustainable activity for this target group.

Enfield Disability Forum Sport and Recreation Sub-Group
Set up in 2008 for sports providers and disabled people in Enfield to combine their efforts around getting disabled people involved in sport and recreation. The forum raises awareness between groups of what is already available in the community and how they can most efficiently build on current inclusion.
Delivered in partnership between Enfield disability organisations and Enfield sports providers and with a direct link with disabled people, the group is run entiredly by its members on a voluntary basis at very little cost. The Forum currently has 12 members but is looking to expand its membership and is open to any interested organisation or individual in Enfield. The Forum has quarterly meetings based around an evolving action plan and is successful due to the willingness of all to work together and undertake responsibilities above and betond their working commitments.

Ellenborough Table Tennis Club
Based in Enfield, Ellenborough Table Tennis Club is a role model to other table tennis clubs, and sports clubs in general in providing tabel tennis for all disabled and non-disabled people of all abilities. Their inclusive approach in terms of accessible equipment such as polybats and trained volunteers through Pro-Active North has provided an inclusive outlook and increased participation as they have involved several people who may otherwise have been turned away.
The club is known throughout Enfield working with the council and other groups to support its development. Ellenborough Table Tennis Club is a sustainable Club with great potential to expand its membership and develop greater understanding of social inclusion.

Reach 2 Teach
A 3 year programme started in 2008 by Tottenham Hotspur Foundation aimed at getting the local community to take responsibility for the disability activities that Tottenham Hotspur Foundation has developed. Tottenham Hotspur Foundation work with local football and sports club providers to train and develop staff to support disability groups to provide increased participation by disabled people through further opportunity and great exposure.
This project is repeatable anywhere where there is a large enough organisation that can focus its development work on areas outside of its own organisation. Other large sports clubs, disability organisations and borough councils would all be ideal. It is sustainable through the local sports providers' members. The projects aims are to develop sustainable clubs which will be able to develop further in following years.

Deaf Unlimited
Previously known as the Waltham Forest Deaf Football Club, Deaf Unlimited has become a fully inclusive club offering football, tennis, badminton, baseball and basketball to deaf, disabled and non-disabled people in Waltham Forest. This community based club is run entirely by its members on a voluntary basis, working in partnership with local organisations. The Lion and Key Pub acts as a club house and as a place to promote the clubs activities in the local community. All activities are chosen by the members and undertaken at local facilities. Activities and membership are both reasonably priced. This is an innovative model of best practise reversing the typical approach to inclusion, with non-disabled people getting involved in a disabled club. The club continues to grow with increased members and more activities on offer.

Haringey Warriors Basketball Club
Started in June 2008 in the Selby Centre, Haringey Warriors Basketball Club provide inclusive training and competitive basketball for deaf and hearing men. There was a real desire from deaf people in Haringey to play the sport and so the club opened its doors to deaf participants. The club has gone from strength to strength because they have interested deaf players, willing club volunteers and free training opportunities from the Royal Association for Deaf People. This project will look to expand its provision for deaf and disabled people and with the support of Basketball England the club could potentially form a disability specific team. Some of the deaf players are already playing for the deaf UK team.

Enfield Athletics Academy
Started in October 2007, Enfield sports development team run an athletics academy at Lea Valley Athletics Centre for young gifted and talented disabled athletes. Learning and physically disabled athletes are coached in a variety of athletic disciplines to improve their technique, develop socially and have fun. The success of the academy was highlighted in 2008 when the boys won the LYG disability athletics competition and the girls came 3rd. 7 athletes were selected from the athletics academy to represent London at the National Junior Athletics championships in Blackpool, and 1 athlete Shaun J Houston was selected to attend the GB Paralympic fast track power programme.
Over 50 children have now attended the academy and gone on to compete at local, regional and national level. After completing the programme, each athlete receives a record of achievement and an exit letter to recommend how the child could progress in terms of attending their local athletics club. Now in its second year, the academy has doubled its provision and is looking to develop greater links with the local athletic clubs and encourage more academy members to join clubs in the local area. London Sports Forum for Disabled People support this good practise example in developing its club links and exit routes to increase participation, and their work to replicate this in other sports to make London an inclusive and active capital.

 East London
Wanstead Flats Playing Fields Sports Project
Delivered by City of London, Epping Forest at Wanstead Flats Playing Fields, the Project provides community sport opportunities for all. They offer the use of a new fully accessible facility to new groups to develop sustainable organised sport and physical activity opportunities. An example is the East Living 5-a-side football team, formed from mental health service users who now train regularly at the centre. They provide a host of inclusive activities for disabled people.
The project support clubs to apply for grants to try new initiatives and invite new participants from groups they are not currently engaged with. It spends valuable time building relationships and engaging with users and works in partnership to ensure new groups can participate. The Project is looking to grow by training committed volunteers in accredited leadership and coaching to create a larger, qualified workforce to expand on the existing offer.

Bracton Lions Basketball
Delivered by the Forensic, Prison and Challenging Behaviour Directorate, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, at The Bracton Centre Therapies Area Sports Hall in Bexley. The Bracton Lions Basketball team work in partnership with the Medway Basketball League and have been operational since 2002.
Bracton Lions Basketball provides a supportive and structured basketball facility which service users can utilise to improve their physical and mental health and then progress into external teams once they leave the forensic setting.
The project runs on a seasonal basis, playing 8 to10 games per season and provides an inclusive environment to be part of a sporting community in which people work together to achieve a common goal. Service users actively contribute to the development of the project and they are now seeking to create a new basketball team from service users who have previously played with the Bracton Lions Basketball team.

NewVIc Badminton
Delivered at NewVIc college, NewVIc Badminton started in February 2009 to deliver a quality exercise programme to increase sporting opportunities for special needs students at New Vic College using specially trained coaches.
15 special needs students regularly participate on activities that have been focused on making the session fun, learning a new skill and making friends. This inclusive badminton programm has worked in partnership to increase participation.

Falcon Spartaks Gymnastics Club
Founded in 1973 and based in Sidcup, Falcon Spartak caters for all age groups and abilities, for disabled and non-disabled people. The club provides disability specific sessions in a mainstream environment and also provides the opportunity for disabled people to take part in appropriate mainstream sessions. It celebrates the success of gymnasts in GMPD competitions (Gymnastics and Movement for People with Disabilities). Disabled people are very much an intrinsic part of club life.

East London Lynx
Launched in 2004 East London Lynx provides sitting volleyball training and competition opportunities for disabled and non-disabled players. Based in Tower Hamlets and delivered by London Lynx Volleyball Club and as one of only 2 sitting volleyball clubs in London, the club works in partnership to address the needed provision, particularly in East London.
The club aims to spearhead the launch of London's bid to help create a GB sitting volleyball team capable of vying for a medal at the 2012 Paralympic Games.

Dance-ability Juniors and Dance-ability Teens
Dance-ability Juniors are fun sessions with live music where everyone can participate in movement in a fully inclusive environment. Under the guidance of a specialist dance artist, support workers and a team of volunteers, participants engage in playful activities that support future functioning, learning and health.
Dance-ability Teens is a weekly class for young people to come together and realise their potential in and through dance. Each class will include sequences to learn and dance together and creative activities that will nurture skills in dance making.
Based in Lewishah and delivered by LABAN, both of these sessions are run in term time and create opportunities for young disabled people to participate with both disabled and non-disabled peers. Volunteers are a crucial element to the programmes and support disabled young people within the sessions.

All Ability Cycle Club
Delivered by Bikeworks in Tower Hamlets, All Ability Cycle Club offer all-ability cycling every other Saturday and promote the usage of cycling for disabled people. The Club promote "cycling for all", with bicycles suitable for everyone's individual needs in an environment that's safe and friendly. This Inclusive Cycling Club is for everyone, club members, family members and carers. They offer the opportunity to meet, talk and of course cycle together around the park for fun, leisure, health and fitness. The sessions are free and supported by volunteers. The club provide the bicycles and helmets. They have a selection ranging from scooters, two wheelers, tandems, recumbents, wheelchair and hand cycles. Bikeworks are also able to provide trained cycle instructors who have experience of working with disabled children, young people and adults with expert knowledge when it comes to levels of risk assessment and suitable individual programme selections.

Air Football
Based in Newham, AIR Football is a programme providing specialist five/seven/eleven-a-side training for men/women aged 16+ with a desire to improve their quality of life and for those who are engaged with services including alcohol/substance misuse, mental health, homeless and the probation/youth offending teams. It provides an opportunity to increase fitness, confidence, self-esteem and work's with team building skills while looking to assist with future goals.
The overall vision of the Air Football projects is to support vulnerable people to improve physical and mental health, enhance their quality of life, confidence, self esteem and work toward a healthier lifestyle. Air Football promotes social inclusion through participation in a team sport and integration with the wider community via regular inner/outer London friendly/league/tournament matches. Working in partnership, Air Football provsion is expanding across boroughs.

Ability Counts Football Club
Delivered by Charlton Athletic Community Trust, Ability Counts Football Club provides an ongoing programme of inclusive and disability-specific football sessions. Running for the last 6 years, the club offers training and competitive footbal opportunities for all ages and all abilities. As an inclusive club, football sessions are open to all, with disability-specific sessions for those who feel more comfortable but with an emphasis on pan-disability participation and competition.
All of the Charlton's efforts are geared towards becoming a community-oriented organisation. To sustain its activities each person pays to play. The club employs over 40 coaches to deliver its programmes and invests in coach development for coaches of all ages and all abilities to progress in football coaching.
Working in partnership the scheme has been growing with more programmes and ability groups added each year and works with other football clubs such as Tottenham to provide activities for disability groups out of their existing catchment area in order to fill gaps in provision.

Attlee Youth and Community Centre
Attlee Youth and Community Centre are an ongoing open access, inclusive centre catering primarily for children and young people with and without recognised disabilities. They are open all year round; after school, weekends and all school holidays. The centre is unique in that it provides high quality sporting facilities to a paying public. These facilities include 5-aside football pitches and changing rooms, of the highest quality, the only such facility within easy reach of the City of London. The revenue from these facilities enables the Youth and Community Centre to provide the service that the local community deserves. As well as after school and holiday play schemes for local children, regardless of ability, it offers youth clubs, homework clubs, facilities for parent and toddler groups, healthy living promotion and much more.
The Centre provides the only fully integrated play and youth scheme for children with and without disabilities in Tower Hamlets and has fully accessible facilities. Currently there has over 600 members from the local area with 300 regular regular users. They provide a free minibus service for members with special needs from around the borough, on Saturdays and school holidays and also hire out the inclusive, accessible facilities on a pay and play basis to individuals and groups.

Ability Bow
Based in Bow, East London, the Ability Bow Gym is a safe and relaxed environment for everyone to participate in activity. The gym supports people who may have long term health conditions or disabilities to take part in regular, supervised exercise sessions with advanced instructors. Although they particularly target people with disabilities or long-term health conditions, the gym is inclusive and welcomes everyone.
Ability Bow has a value approach to membership fees and provide a one-off session fee option. The facility relies on fundraising when requiring additional money to purchase or replace equipment to ensure that everyone can participate. The staff are all dedicated and paid employees usually qualified to Fitness Instructor Level 3, giving them a solid knowledge to be able to design or modify exercise programmes for people with different abilities. The team always have a positive attitude and happy approach to their work and the upbeat and safe atmosphere in the gym is one of the reasons why the people who go there enjoy it so much!

Romford YMCA
Based in Romford, Essex, Romford YMCA provides an ongoing programme of disability-specific sessions such as Sportsability (Boccia, New Age Kurling and 10-pin bowling), Special Needs Gym, Yoga and Different Strokes (for stroke survivors). The mix of other inclusive classes and projects at the centre provide a emense choice for everyone to participate in sport and physical activity.
Romford YMCA programme expands to fit in with local needs and the club has worked hard to ensure that their facilities are inclusive. Their inclusive facilities were recently recognised when Romford YMCA was awarded IFI (Inclusive Fitness Initiative) status.
The centre mainly relies on paid members of staff but, particularly within the disability-specific session participants are very much encouraged to attend coach education classes in order to ensure that the group is self-sufficient. There are currently seeking to extend their sport for disabled people activity provision with wheelchair basketball and Goalball.

AHOY Centre
The AHOY Centre believes that disabled and non-disabled people should be together and treated equally in participation, leadership and volunteering roles. The role of volunteer is strongly encouraged because without them there would not be an AHOY Centre. All staff and the large volunteer base are aware how to include people but also how to use modifications and adaptations that are in place for disabled volunteers within the inclusive and fully accessible centre.
Disabled people from any impairment can participate; some using standard equipment, some use specially adapted boats and hoists. Some participants will take part in mainstream sessions; some may be better suited to disability specific activities, such as their weekly Sailability sessions.
AHOY are particularly proud of their upcoming project which will enable people with more severe, profound and multiple disabilities to board and navigate a fully adapted boat.
Most of the group’s promotions are based on word of mouth and a substantial membership and volunteer base. However, they do have a monthly newsletter pro-actively communicating and advertising successes and achievements of both disabled and non-disabled members. The centre wants to expand its volunteer members and runs numerous opportunities for volunteers to achieve qualifications.
The AHOY Centre is a recognised RYA teaching establishment and 'Sailability' Centre, and provides professional training towards recognised qualifications. The AHOY offers its disabled and non-disabled Volunteer Members the opportunity to train for a career in water sports and to compete in sailing and boating events.

Hackney Personal Bests
Run by the London Borough of Hackney 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games Unit, the Hackney Personal Bests programme uses sports associated with the Olympic and Paralympic Games to enthuse and encourage school aged individuals to try, take part and to improve.

Physical activity is delivered over three sessions. During the first session, children are shown techniques and encouraged to throw, jump and run. They all try a series of Olympic and Paralympic based athletic disciplines using equipment supplied by the 2012 Unit. At the end of the first session the children are informed that their baseline has been set and that they would now be competing against their own personal best scores.

The second session concentrates on mastering the techniques involved in each of the sports. The children are then given time to practice during school PE lessons and in their own time in preparation for the third physical activity session- their schools 'Personal Bests Final'.

Each school final encourages all children to participate and everyone contributes to a team score by winning points by competing against their previous personal bests. The scoring system rewards improvement rather than excellence alone, removing some of the direct competition and individual pressure but since everyone receives a score, the competitive element is maintained.

The six boys and girls that show the greatest levels of improvement are selected to represent their school at the Personal Best Finals against the other 25 participating schools. There will be approximately 300 children competing on the day all trying to beat their personal bests to win points for their school. The scoring system enables the programme to be fully inclusive, with both disabled and non-disabled children competing against each other.

In terms of continued participation, the children benefit from the equipment retained by the school and each participating school is offered an after school athletics club which is linked to the boroughs sports hall athletics club at Space Leisure Centre. All after school club and Personal Bests participants are offered free access to the athletics club.

Data collected from the personal best programme will support the development and expansion of the programme. Hackney will seek to forge closer links with partners including The Healthy Lifestyle Group (an obesity prevention programme). Overall this programme raises the awareness of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and promotes the benefits of living an active and healthy lifestyle.

 South London
Special Olympics Richmond
Special Olympics Richmond was formed as a joint venture between St. Mary's University College, Richmond upon Thames College and The London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and is looking to involve all interested groups in the statutory and voluntary sector. Special Olympics Richmond runs weekly athletics, football, indoor sports and swimming sessions and is seeking to develop rowing, kayaking and basketball opportunities.

The project creates community cohesion and volunteering opportunities. It links both the statutory and voluntary sector and is establishing links with other SOGB branches and regions. The project will seek to retain a flexible approach and constantly evolve and refine systems learning from best practice and experience of other groups.

Active Minds
Active Minds is a four year project, delivered by Mind in Croydon. It supports people with mental health problems to take part in physical activity. The project offers individuals the opportunity to buddy up with people who can accompany them to activities and encourages people who have used the service and found it to be beneficial to volunteer as buddies, therefore building their confidence and offering training opportunities.

Active Minds also set up group activities, such as boxercise, badminton and football to enable people to meet one another, in a friendly environment, and reduce social isolation. Working in partnership with service providers, the project has been successful and hopes to expand by recruiting more volunteer buddies to support more people.

Overall, Active Minds enables individuals to achieve and maintain positive lifestyle changes that will improve their mental wellbeing, reduce social isolation, and reduce their risk of developing long term health conditions.

Croydon Judo Club
Funded in 1951, the Croydon Judo Club is renowed for its conduct and its consideration for the well-being and safety of participants. The club ensures all activities are appropriate to the age, ability and experience of those taking part and offers an inclusive environment.

The club has created an adoptive programme exercise book for their disabled participants and this has enabled disabled people to progress up their respective grading system and offers one-to-one coaching on request. Within the club each individual sets their own limitations and is not held to another's perception of what they can achieve.

Croydon Judo Club has set up a programme of sessions introducing the sport to older players, parents and friends. This not only promotes the idea of 'Sport for All' but also encourages them to become coaches and as graded adults to help with the classes for youngsters so broadening the volunteer base within the club.

Croydon Community Football Club
Surrey County FA have worked with four schools on a FA School club link project to create the first fully FA affiliated disability team in Croydon.

Participants have enjoyed 8 weeks school coaching followed by 4 after school coaching sessions between, 23rd April - 18th June 2009. The team of 12-16 year olds plan to enter the Surrey County Disability League for the 09/10 season and in the long term will be developed to attract more players with a view to expanding the number of teams within the club. This example is recognised as a good practice with the FA.

Bromley District Cricket
Based in Bromley, Bromley District Cricket works in partnership to deliver a cricket sports programme for disabled children. This initial 3 month programme introduces cricket to children with special needs. The programme includes softball team games to improve skills, provides regular cricket activity and has sustainable exit routes. 75 children from 8 different schools have participated. Teachers are delighted by this opportunity given to the children to participate in a festival and the children themselves were very excited. Due to its success the programme is seeking to expand its timeframe.

Richmond Volleyball Club
Based in Richmond Upon Thames, Richmond Volleyball club is committed to delivering inclusive sitting volleyball for all abilities. Working with south London partners, the club focuses on local community volleyball, providing for all playing standards. The club has a very open and welcoming approach and has a team of volunteers to support and encourage participation.
Richmond Volleyball Club has delivered numerous inclusive volleyball events and festivals to generate awareness, interest and desire and to recruit more disabled and non-disabled people to sitting volleyball. The club is sustainable with a sitting volleyball programme in place and long term plans to facilitate a south London sitting volleyball league. Working for the community they have gained very positive feedback to inclusive sitting volleyball and will continue to develop their events to increase inclusive participation.

Wimbledon Park Watersports Centre
Wimbledon Park is a fully inclusive water sports centre. The parks facilities, including boat provision provide accessible activity for all impairment groups and the Paddlesports Club has both disabled and non-disabled members.
Working with the Merton School Sports Partnership, Wimbledon Park runs inclusive after school activities for primary schools in the summer term and provides a comprehensive volunteer programme that runs through the holidays.

Special Olympics Surrey - Kingston Sports Club
Started in February 2008 the club offers Pan Disability recreation multi-sport sessions to people aged 8-80. Weekly sessions are well attended and advertised through the website.
The club works with Special Olympic partners in south London to expand its provision and has added athletics and Boccia opportunities. Those who attend the recreation sessions have a clear exit route to sign up as a member of SOS and receive specific training.

Reef Breakers Club
Based at Cheam Leisure Centre, the Reef Breakers club offers pan-disability swimming coaching and development training sessions for high standard swimmers. The club has an entry standard requirement and offers a performance pathway, and suitable exit route from other beginner coaching sessions.
Reef Breakers is inclusive to all impairments and has created sustainable links with the London boroughs of Croydon and Sutton to encourage all those who are eligible to access the session. Members have competed at several county galas and the club is creating swimming champions of the future.

Fulham Deaf Football Club
Fulham Deaf Football Club works in partnership with Fulham FC Community Sports Trust, the London borough of Kingston and Surrey FA to create deaf football opportunities. Now in its fifth year, the club has two mens teams, a womens team and a youth team and participates in inclusive competitions. Run entirely by volunteers the club is constantly expanding to offer more training and more opportunities to the deaf community.

Croydon Weekend Sports Club
Croydon Weekend Sports Club offers Saturday morning coaching to 20 young people per session. Working in partnership with the sports centre, the club provides 3 hours of multi-sport activities and arranges guest coaches in some sports. The club is inclusive of disabled people and their siblings and offers a low cost opportunity to participate in sport.

Croydon Swimming Club (Beginners)
Croydon Swimming Club provides beginner sessions to young people with disabilities and special needs during term time at a discounted rate. The club provides an opportunity for disabled people to participate, has 1:1 coaching available and has a clear performance pathway to the intermediate club.

Chairobics (Kingston)
Based at the Crescent Resource centre in New Malden, Chairobics offers seated exercise to music for disabled people and non-disabled people who are over 50 or less mobile.
Started in 2006, Chairobics was the result of consultation and taster sessions and is now a sustainable weekly Friday activity. Chairobics is very inclusive as all participants are seated to exercise and all participants can exercise together. Sessions are open to the local community and help strengthen the upper body, improve the respiratory system and reduce lethargy.

Cycling for All (CfA)
Cycling for All is a project to encourage and enable disabled people to cycle. Based at Croydon Sports Arena, Cycling for All is one of the largest cycling projects of its kind in the UK, in terms of users and frequency of sessions. The project runs throughout the year, with 2 sessions a week, every week. Having started in 2001, Cycling for All now has 7 years operational experience and is working with partners to retain and grow this sustainable project. As a community based project Cycling for All has an excellent track record of working with and up-skilling volunteers and is looking to work with a local college to provide their Personal Best and Sports Leader trainees with volunteering experience. The project is also aiming to introduce training courses for support workers. Research from the project’s August 2008 user base showed 84% of disabled users had learning difficulties as their primary impairment and 10% had a physical impairment. The remainder had mental health issues, other impairments or did not provide the information. In light of these results, the project has recently added an attendance charge which will be used to advertise the project more widely to people from other impairment groups and reduce current waiting times.

 West London
Brentford Community Boating Arch
Based in Kew Bridge, Brentford Boating Arch is a project managed by Brentford FC Community Sports Trust to develop access to the river through canoeing and eventually rowing to the Brentford, Ealing and Strand on the Green Areas.
This fully inclusive club is open every day and has a good range of boats and equipment suitable for all levels and usage for pan disabilities. Members range in age from 8-60+ and can enjoy recreational water activities, coaching or participate in formal competitions. The key ingredient for the success of the project is the development of partnership links and aims to use these to increase its coaches and disabled membership. By 2012 Brentford Community Boating Arch aim to be a centre of excellence for coaching canoeing.

DS Tiger Cubs
Based in Hammersmith and Fulham and delivered by Queens Park Rangers F.C, DS Tiger Cubs provide children and young people with Down's syndrome (DS) the same benefits of being on a team as their non-disabled peers. Through football, this project aims to create a multi-tier learning environment that will improve the participants overall physical, social and emotional health.
Weekly Monday night sessions provide children and young people with DS aged 5 to 25 the opportunity to learn the core fundamentals of football and develop physical skills and increase their own social and emotional abilities.
Partnership working has helped the club to grow and build up participants, they now plan to develop more Downs Syndrome specific teams in other areas in West London.

Extreme Ability
Extreme Ability is a three-year scheme based in Ealing and delivered by Brentford Community Sport Trust & Active Ealing to offer a range of activities and sports for over-14s.
Extreme Ability provide help and support to existing sports clubs to develop skills and experience so they can offer a wider range of activities to disabled people. There will also be the chance for people to become sports coaches and become involved in volunteering opportunities across the range of sessions.

Grange Special Needs Judo Club
Grange Judo Club offers an inclusive environment for disabled and non-disabled people to participate in Judo in Hillingdon. Having become inclusive, its membership of disabled people has developed every year and the club offers weekly provision to help and support young people with a disability to fulfil their ambition of participating in judo. They are keen to develop the participants and support them in reaching high performance grades in both inclusive and exclusive competition.
The scheme offers a fun way of teaching and aims to develop the participant's transferable skills such as communication, co-ordination and self confidence. The club also offers the participants to become full members of the club and are entitled to participate in social events and external competition. The scheme continues to expand through its reputation and links with local schools.

RYA Sail-ability
RYA Sail-ability aim to ensure there is a minimum standard of facilities, safety, disability awareness and volunteer management at sailing clubs. Working in partnership with BTYC Sailsports Club in brent, the Sail-Ability program ensures that people with a disability can participate in yachting activities through adaption's to facilities and coaching and there is club integration between disabled and non-disabled members.
RYA Sail-ability and BTYC Sailsports Club will continue to work together to expand disabled sailing opportunities and offer inclusive sailing in Brent.

Grasshoppers Rugby Football Club
Based in Osterley, Ealing Grasshoppers aims to engage young people with a disability to participate in rugby union. Grasshoppers is a pan disability club with an inclusive ethos to encourage people with a disability to participante and engage in social activities. All Grasshopper coaches go on coaching disabled performers training and changes are being made to the club house to ensure the facility is accessible. The club plays an active part in the community and has made partnership links with other sport clubs, the RFU and school links.

Team Nova
Team Nova is a Trampolining club offering inclusive trampolining opportunities to people in Ealing. Working in partnership with local schools, the club has fulfilled a gap in provision and built a sustainable inclusive club.
Team Nova has had great success including members of the community with a visual / hearing impairment. Both social and trampolining skills are developed and qualified coaches train disabled and non-disabled participants to compete in the same competition structure. The club also offers its disabled members the opportunity to become qualified coaches.
Currently at full capacity, the club aims to develop their facilities and new sessions for current and future disabled members.

Whitmore High School Community Sports Project: Inclusive Badminton
Established in September 2007, The Whitmore High School (WHS) Inclusive Badminton Club is open to all deaf, disabled and non-disabled young people (11-19 years), living in Harrow. At WHS Badminton Club nights qualified Badminton England coaches teach rules and tactics and encourage players to develop their skills. All members are encouraged to participate at both an informal and competitive level and the club has had success in a number of inclusive tournaments. WHS Badminton Club has been recognised by the new Community Badminton Network (CBN) as the Hub School for Disability Badminton and continues to grow as an inclusive club.

Tripletts Tennis Centre
Tripletts tennis club fall under the umbrella of the Hillingdon Academy of Tennis who support their involvement in mainstream participation and competiton. The club provides tennis for members with a spinal injury and is supported by Stuart Wilkinson, a wheelchair tennis Paralympics athlete who trains people with physical impairments. The club are supportive of inclusivity through the enthusiasm and expertise of Stuart Wilkinson and other staff who have attended disability awareness workshops. The club has not actively marketed their inclusivity however through word of mouth and a few promotional events they have been able to build up a diverse membership core. The club now runs regular disability specific training and feeds disabled people into the mainstream adult and junior provisions to allow that persons skills to further develop.

Feltham Bees
Based at Feltham Community Sports College, Feltham Bees provides accessible football sessions for all impairment groups and is open to all young disabled people. Working in partnership with Middlesex FA, Active Hounslow and Active Ealing the club is delivered by Brentford Football Club. Players are referred through Brentford FC soccer schools and external partners. The club has a strong volunteer infrastructure who support Brentford FC community coaches with the sessions. This ongoing project is sustainable and the club will continue to grow as its reputation becomes stronger throughout the community.

 Central London
Werewolves Ice Hockey
Started in 2003 by Streatham Ice Hockey Club, the Werewolves of London Special Ice hockey club offers a special needs ice hockey programme for children from 5 years up and adults who have developmental disabilities such as Autistic Spectrum Disorders, Downs Syndrome and other learning disabilities. Open to non-skaters, beginners, through to established skaters this non-contact, non-competitive programme aims to offer physical exercise, while enhancing gross motor skills, self-confidence, self-esteem and social skills, with an emphasis on having fun.
Werewolves run two sessions on alternate Saturdays that are always well attended and they welcome new members regardless of ability. Run by volunteers and working in partnership with Special Hockey International, Werewolves will continue to build on their good work in preparation for hosting the Special Hockey International tournament in 2012.

Greenwood Dance
Started in 2008 this ongoing project delivered by Camden Active Health Team provides an opportunity for adults (18+) with a learning disabilities to learn basic dance techniques, improve their general health, well-being and self esteem. The general class is then followed by a performance group session where the group learn choreography, rehearse and then perform at events.
Greenwood is the disability specific element, which is integrated into a wider dance project run by the Camden Active Health team that focuses on dance as a method of keeping fit and healthy whilst having fun and making friends at the same time. Originally, Greenwood Dance had one 1.5hour session a week. They have now extended this provision with an additional 1hour performance group and continuously get new members coming along to participate and are looking to run additional sessions on different days. Plans have also begun to replicate this project in Islington through the Elfrida Society.

The Pirate Club
Running for 40 years at the Pirate Castle, the Pirate Club promotes activities and training for young disadvantaged people and has 100 members. The club's core activities are based on water and the club owns a variety of boats including kayaks, coracles, rowing boats, canoes, rescue boats and two full length community narrow boats. While most of their activities are just for fun the Pirate Club is keen to develop their member's life and social skills and give them some qualifications to help them achieve their potential. Regardless of their ability, the children and young people are given the same opportunities and take part in activities together.
The club has a strong volunteer base and works in partnership with other charities and authorities to provide narrow boats and canal side indoor facilities for both local organisations and visiting groups. The Pirate Club will grow through offering a wider range of activities and expanding their current opportunities.

Tideway Sailability
Based at Surrey Docks Water Sports Centre, Tideway Sailability offers disabled people, their friends, carers and families the opportunity to learn to sail and take part in an activity where life can be a bit different. Running for over 15 years, the club enables both disabled and non-disabled to sail together. The club has adapted boats for individuals with physical impairments and has recently run a project (2Sail 2012) that specifically focuses on sailors with a visual impairment.
Tideway Sailability has a strong volunteer infrastructure covering a wide range of roles within the club and would not be able to function without its volunteers. Tideway is always looking at ways to expand through more boats, more members or developing innovative projects. The club actively seeks out funding to provide more opportunities for disabled people to get into sailing, to provide a wide range of activities and to boost their membership.

Sports Activities - Elfrida Society
Working with the local authority leisure services team, the borough's main leisure provider (Aquaterra) and local mainstream sports clubs, Elfrida Society provide sport and physical activity opportunities to people with a learning disability living in Islington and the surrounding area . Elfrida Society link with these partners with the ultimate aim of being able to integrate their service users to attend the mainstram club. The clubs can then provide inclusive activity and the individuals gain confidence and personal development to access the sport and physical activity of their choice. Elfrida Society sessions currently run with Fighting Fit Fencing, Times Boxing, Islington Tennis Centre and they are looking to expand and introduce more choice.

Salmon Youth Centre
Running since 1906, the Salmon Youth centre in Bermondsay provide a wide range of activities to the local community. The centre aims to inspire young people to realise their potential, to contribute positively to the communities in which they live and let young people discover meaning and direction for their lives. All children and young people aged between 6 - 26 years are welcome and sessions are available to all that wish to participate. All activities are inclusive and the centre's 3 full time sports coaches can adapt sessions to meet individual requirements. In addition, Salmon Youth Centre runs football and multi-sports activities for its disabled members. The salmon centre's team work with a group of committed volunteers on activities and are continuously looking to develop new activities and opportunities for its members and to encourage new members from the community to participate.

Vauxhall City Farm
Based in Lambeth, Vauxhall City Farm is an inner city free of charge urban farm providing inclusive riding lessons for the public. The farm enables disabled children and adults an opportunity to take part in a healthy lifestyle activity embedded in the local community. Vauxhall City Farm works in partnership to care for the horses and welcomes volunteers to help with riding activities. The farm has recorded that over 12,000 people have benefited from their service and they foresee that this number will continue to rise.

London Recumbents
Started in 1993, this ongoing project in Dulwich Park, Southwark provides a variety of adaptive trikes, bikes and other adaptive equipment for hire in the park, enabling disabled people to cycle with their peers or family members. This unquie provision gives disabled people the opportunity to experience levels of independence and mobility, increasing and developing physical health as well as day-to-day co-ordination. The adaptive equipment is in constant demand and provides a lot of inclusive fun in the park.

Southwark Tennis Club
Based in Burgess Park, Southwark Tennis Club provides the local community with recreational and competitive tennis opportunities. The club has both inclusive junior and senior groups and in partnership with the local authority runs a session specifically for disabled people. The club is well established and with continued support form the club's volunteers and funding opportunities the club will develop its current inclusive provision and aim to increase activities and therefore increase its membership.