Ian Brown – Equality and Diversity Officer

Lincolnshire

Wheelchair Sports Programme

Funded bySupported by

What is it?

• Delivery March 2010

• Reverse integration

• Enabling

• Mental wellbeing

• Physical activity

• Disability awareness

• Fun

Equipment

• 170 Lightweight sports wheelchairs

• 10 Sports Powerchairs

• 19 Trailers

KPIs KPI's Project Target

Actual Year 1 Year 2Difference

% 0ver target

Male / female % split

Participants 3,776 18,303 10,148 8,155 14,527 385 %  Throughput 22,800 43,484 20,201 23,283 20,684 91 %  Male     60Female     40No of Participants with a statement

192 1,672 676 996 1,480 771 %  

Throughput of participants with a statement

1,136 4,188 2141 2,047 3,052 269  

Interim research report by Jonno Bright sds

Lack of Knowledge, 26%

Inferiority, 3%

Knowledge, 9%

Experience, 26%

Generalisation, 6%

Limiting, 12%

Sympathy, 3%

Respect, 11%Unease, 5% , 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%, 0%

Pre-Intervention Perceptions

Negative Coding Positive Coding

Interim research report• Participants throughout questioning possessed very little knowledge regarding

disability sport. • ‘Erm, I know a little bit about it, just that they do the Olympic Sports.’• Despite knowing very little about disability sport, a large number of participants

knew and had frequent interaction with a member of the disabled community.• ‘My cousins only young but I think he has down syndrome and learning

difficulties’• The predominant negative codes include a sense limitation, inferiority and

unease toward the disabled community• Participants throughout pre-intervention question suggested a sense of

limitation with regard what they perceived a disabled individual could do and a sense of inferiority with regard the achievements and participation of disabled individuals in sport.

• ‘Yeah, in like normal basketball they can do slam dunks and stuff, and run around, and do something really interesting, but then they’re (disabled individuals) just sat down’

• ‘My dad says I’m not allowed to watch it cause if I did it would freak me out and it weren’t like the real Olympics’

• When asked how participants felt when around members of society that were disabled, participants frequently responded with a sense of unease.

• ‘I felt silly….erm, and bad because I’m always stood up or like sat down on a proper chair and can move around I walk and I like run around and things and don’t….sit in a wheelchair’

Intervention Experiences• Participants throughout observations were noted as displaying frustration toward the

height of the basket, the difficulty of moving chairs around the court and the multiple tasks required for competing in small court games.

• ‘Yeah it was quite frustrating especially like when shooting cause you’re lower down so you can’t get to the net as easy’

• Participants similarly showed physical tiredness throughout the intervention and voiced their feelings with regard the difficulty of the tasks in hand and the physical requirements to move the chair and shoot the ball high enough.

• ‘I’m knackered, that was really hard pushing myself up and down the court ’

• Participants did display signs of enjoyment throughout each sessions and notes were continually made of participants laughing and showing signs of general enjoyment.

• ‘I think it was really good play, cause people who we don’t really hang around with, say your on a team with them, you can like, get along with each other and know each other more’

• ‘I found it really cool that we were all together and all taking part together and it was just really fun, yeah the teacher was good and we learnt really quickly, like what we do.’

Negative CodingPositive Coding

Post-Intervention Perceptions• A clear difference in the change from negative to positive coding. Participants

appears to have eradicated certain perceptions namely sympathy, inferiority, limitation

and unease. These codes however appear to have altered to a sense of commonality, empathy and respect for the disabled community. It is possible to suggest that this change in perception was mainly due to the physical and emotional demands of playing wheelchair basketball and the challenges participants encountered over the 12 week intervention.

• Participants, having displayed a sense of inferiority and limitation showed signs of commonality with disabled individuals when concerned with playing sport.

• ‘Yes, sometimes you think disabled people can’t do this, and can’t do this but actually they can.’ • ‘Like, no offence to them, but I used to like look at them and think, like, they’re not one of us, kind of.

And now, they are like us, they’re us just…. ‘• Participants displayed signs of empathy toward disabled individuals. Having experienced the demands

of disability sports, participants began to show signs of understanding the demands of basic everyday living disabled individuals encounter daily.

• ‘I understand more like how they feel and how annoying it is to be in a wheelchair, even though I was only in it for a little bit and I could get out and walk, but if like you couldn’t get out and stuff, it would be like…just so annoying’

• ‘It made me realise like how hard it is for like disabled people, to like move around and all the things they actually can’t do.’

• ‘Yeah cause like I thought it was like easy for us…now though you would know how hard it would be for them because you can’t stand up and just go running after the ball’

• A final code identified was Respect. This related to wide-spread for the disabled community and disabled sportsmen/women. Each participant noted their personal experiences during the intervention that made them alter their perceptions to a respect.

• ‘Yeah cause if you see it on the TV you think oh, its just wheeling chairs about, easy passing to each other but its not cause when you actually get in the wheelchair its really tough…you have to be proper good’

• ‘Its like so different to basketball and stuff, so like if you do basketball on your feet its different if you’re like doing it in a wheelchair, I think you have to have more skill to do it in a wheelchair’

• ‘Just like everyday, getting up going in the wheelchair, wheelchair-ing around, going into bed, just the same 24/7...you got to be strong to do that’

Club development

Short Breaks video of NK Jaguars

Louth Rolling Thunder

Available on the Lincolnshire County Council web-site

• 500 days to the Paralympics (City square)

• ASBO against people with a disability education work

• CAAD County Athlete Assessment Days

• Corporate Sports Days

• Help for Heroes

• Learning Disability Partnership Days

• Lincoln Sporting weekend

• Lincolnshire School Games

• Lincolnshire Show

• Linx Festival

• National Sportivate launch

• Papers

• Paralympic days

• Primary schools

• Regional County Sports Partnership Event

• Scunthorpe United

• Short Breaks days

• Street Games

• Talent Lincolnshire

• Wheelchair Laser Tag (spin off)

• Wheelchair Rounders (New)

Where else may you have seen the WCSP

What next

•Funding until 31 March 2013•Delivery in Primary•Continued delivery in secondary schools•Application to Sport England for delivery 2013 - 2017

Questions?