Disability sport programme receives financial boost

Tue, 25 May 2021

A project that enables children with disabilities to try new sports at the National Sports Centre has been given £3,000 to buy new equipment.

Currently around 80 children from 13 schools take part in Manx Sport and Recreation’s (MSR) Disability School Sports Programme that started in 2017. It is run by trained coaches with help from University College Isle of Man students, who are mentored in return.

The cash has been spent on an indoor athletics kit, basketball hoops, curling sets and variety different balls, bibs and cones and means more sports can be taught and enjoyed.

Children from 13 Special Educational Needs (SEN) units currently participate in weekly sessions with sports including basketball, netball, football, athletics, cricket and golf.