Creating Opportunities Through Sport, Wellbeing & Partnership

Choice International Sri Lanka delivers inclusive programmes and activities that empower individuals, strengthen communities and promote equal opportunities through sport, wellbeing, education and community engagement.

Working alongside communities, schools, sports organisations, businesses and other partners, we create accessible opportunities that encourage participation, improve wellbeing and reduce barriers to inclusion.

Our programmes are designed to support people of different ages and abilities, creating welcoming environments where everyone can participate, develop confidence, learn new skills and achieve their potential.

Our work includes:

  • Inclusive sport programmes
  • Health and wellbeing initiatives
  • Community engagement projects
  • Disability inclusion programmes
  • Education and training
  • Leadership and volunteer development
  • Community events and activities
  • Corporate engagement
  • Adaptive sport opportunities
  • Partnership development

 

We believe that inclusive sport and community activities can provide much more than physical activity. They can create opportunities for friendship, confidence, teamwork, independence and personal development.

Disability Sports and Social Inclusion

Online Ultimate Wheelchair Tennis and Fitness sessions

Since COVID-19 and Lockdown in March 2020, we innovated the first ever live online wheelchair tennis sessions, bringing together disabled people from across the UK and internationally. We connected like-minded people, bringing skills and inspiration to them during a difficult time and helped them keep fit from home. These sessions were funded by the Dan Maskell Tennis Trust. 

“I particularly like two aspects to these sessions, firstly the exercises can be practiced at home. Secondly we practice more subtle skills and listen to detailed analysis of technique, which prevents the temptation when we get back on court to just bash away at balls“

Ralph Charlwood, wheelchair tennis player and weekly online session participant

By popular demand we continue to deliver these sessions, with the support of the Queens Club Foundation. 

London and Gravesend

In Leicester, in partnership with the Peepul Enterprise we are promoting multi-sports and inclusive fitness for disabled people.

We deliver local sports workshops and related activities to engage with the local community and other stakeholders. We aim to develop this project further in a sustainable way to:

  • Promote inclusive disability sports and fitness sessions
  • Train disabled people as fitness instructors, in partnership with Instructability
  • Develop best practice guidance and support the inclusion of BAME disabled people in sports and fitness
  • Provide guidance and support to existing sports and fitness clubs in order that they can reach more disabled people from ethnic minority backgrounds

Wheelchair Tennis Awareness Sessions

We promote Wheelchair Tennis in East London and Leicester and are keen to develop longer term projects to continue and roll out sessions on a larger scale.

At present we support the Bromley Tennis Centre in delivering Wheelchair Tennis awareness sessions for Level 2 Tennis Coaches. This course informs of the specific impairment groups (Wheelchair, Visually Impaired, Deaf and Learning Disabilities), and the implications for working with these impairment groups individually as well as in integrated sessions, and how to deliver sessions accordingly. Practical elements of the training include participation in a ‘disability simulation’ allowing coaches to experience the challenges faced by disabled people, followed by an opportunity to coach individuals with impairment.