Leisure providers are a fundamental partner in Sport for Confidence, providing the facilities, equipment and sports and activity coaches to facilitate activities. Leisure facilities across the UK can experience many benefits of delivering Sport for Confidence sessions:
- Diversification of participation groups across the whole facility
- Increasing levels of participation of disabled people in sport & physical activity
- Up-skilling the workforce in the techniques and practices associated with working with clients who have learning disabilities
- Encouraging participation in other specialist activities (e.g. for elderly, children)
- Utilising pre-existing facilities and equipment to support an increasingly inclusive programme
- Forging stronger working relationships with Health Professionals and their service users
- Gaining stronger insight in to public health landscape and being responsive to local residents
- Achieving key objective of ‘providing disability sports’ within your Leisure & Recreational strategy
