Deafelopment Sport ...
Sports are there for fun and enjoyment. In most cases, the majority of sports are competitive. This creates pressures for both organisations delivering the sports and for the athletes competing.
“It is not the winning that matters, but the taking part that counts.”
Whilst this might be the Deaflympics, Olympics and Paralympics favourite quote, there are both internal and external pressures to succeed.
With London successfully winning the bid to host the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, Sports will thus become the top weekly agenda of discussions in both central and local government departments. Issues of interest would be targeted towards creating a healthier and more successful British population.
Billions of pounds would be expended within the sporting circle, ‘Return on Capital’ invested would be expected to produce positive results.
Is your organisation going to tap into this huge financial bucket? If you are one of those lucky organisations already to receive a huge chunk of funding, are you confident that you have the internal skills necessary to establish fully inclusive sporting opportunities that would not ignore the existence of deaf people in the community?
- How do you identify and develop new talents?
- How do you provide appropriate coaching and services to the Deaf Community?
- How can you incorporate deaf people in your sporting activities?
- Do you know that there is no category for ‘Deaf Only’ in the Paralympics?
- Why are deaf people not in the Paralympics?
- How and with whom could positive business partnership be established?
- Maybe you are a deaf sport person, a deaf team or an organisation for deaf sports people, how can you make your presence known?
- How can you gain public funding, private sponsorship or raise money for what you are doing?