Presentation by Chris Ratcliffe of the English Federation of Disability Sport (EFDS)

1. Disabled People in Doorstep
Clubs
Chris Ratcliffe

2. English Federation
of Disability Sport

3. Vision
Equality in Sport and Physical Activity
Mission
To be the strategic lead for sport and
physical activity for disabled people in
England

4. Disabled People
Sport & Physical Activity

5. 9/10 disabled people are not active…
• In England, 90% of disabled people do not take part
in regular sport and numbers are dropping
• Half of all young disabled people feel they missed out
on sport at school because of their impairment
• Of those who do play, 1 in 5 believe that they are not
welcome in their local clubs
• Over 50% of disabled people would like to play more
sport
• there are over 5,000 disabled sports clubs and groups
on our database!

6. doorstep clubs are important to
disabled people……
• a diverse group like
many others you work
with
• are individuals first and
foremost
• don’t all fit into
Paralympic
classifications
• live in your community!

7. ……. challenges to participation
• attitudinal: negative perceptions and attitude
• opportunities are often limited
• costs, equipment, transport are key factors
• physical access can be challenging
• communication needs to be considered
• support from others is often required

8. doorstep clubs and disabled people
• Engagement and communication
• adapting your activities
• coaching / leading your club

10. engagement with disabled people
• do you know your community?
• where can you contact disabled people?
• how do you present your information?
• how do you communicate?

11. The Inclusive Spectrum
Different methods and approaches to support
inclusion in actvities;
• everyone can play
• change to include everyone
• ability groups
• alternate or separate activity
• adapted physical activity and disability sport

12. The STEP model
Space
• increase or decrease size of playing area
• use zoning
• vary the distance to be covered
Task
• equal opportunities to participate
• breakdown complex tasks into smaller components
• opportunity to practice skills before games
Equipment
• increase or decrease size of ball in ball games
• provide options to engage people to send or receive the ball in different ways
• use of noise / visual clues to help inclusion of some players
People
• match players of similar ability
• balance team numbers to overall ability of the group

13. The Inclusion Spectrum Framework
Everyone
Can
Play
Open
Alternate Adapted Change
Activity Physical To
Activity/ Include
disability
Separate Modified
sport
S
T
Ability
Groups
E
Parallel
P
Pam Stevenson / Ken Black 2011

14. coaching / leading your club
• confident and
competent
• able to provide a quality
experience
• specific support and
training in place
• working with
participants to
understand their needs
• resources / equipment

15. sources of support
• Training
• EFDS website www.efds.co.uk new inclusive
club toolkit being launched in May 2012
• streetmark / clubmark resources
• NGB’s / CSP’s

16. Questions

17. Contact:
cratcliffe@efds.co.uk
01509 227 750