Sports accessibility toolkit created

Thomas Pocklington Trust has launched a toolkit designed to make sport more accessible to visually impaired people as well as training for leisure and sports providers.

The toolkit included resources such as videos that explored what a visual impairment is, what makes an accessible environment, as well as guiding and communicating.

Martin Symcox, sports development lead at Thomas Pocklington Trust, said: ‘One of the greatest barriers to blind and partially sighted people participating in sport is confidence and we know disabled people are twice as likely to be inactive, compared to non-disabled people. Knowing that a leisure or sport provider understands their needs, helps increase confidence and makes visually impaired people more likely to choose that place to do exercise.’