The 12th West of Scotland Parasport Festival was held on the 3rd March at the On-X Linwood in Renfrewshire, where 65 young people with disabilities of physical and sensory from mainstream schools took part in a variety of exciting sports.
On the day we were delighted to welcome children from all 13 local authorities in the West of Scotland, with dedicated coaches putting on inclusive and exciting sessions the participants. At the end of a fun, inspiring day the feedback was excellent – “It was the best I’ve had in sport”, “Awesome” and “Sportacular” summed up the day for the participants.
There were 9 sports on the day, where we were delighted to invite coaches from the following organisations to run appropriate and engaging activities:
Athletics– Scottish Athletics and Red Star AC
Basketball– Basketball Scotland
Badminton– Badminton Scotland and Glasgow Disability Badminton Club
Boccia– Scottish Disability Sport and GB Boccia
Football– Partick Thistle Charity Trust and Scottish Powerchair Association
Judo– Judo Scotland and Hamilton Judo Club
Swimming– Scottish Swimming, Kilmarnock Jets SC, Temple SC
Table Tennis– Drumchapel Table Tennis Club
Sailing– Sailability and Bardowie Sailing Club
Please have a look at our events calendar with all SDS events for the rest of the year as well as keeping an eye on our social media channels to keep up to date with everything disability sport in Scotland – Twitter, Facebook & Instagram.