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Paralympic star unveils new facility

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Paralympic gold medallist Jonnie Peacock has officially opened a BT-funded multi-sensory room at St Bernard’s School in Louth, Lincolnshire, which gives young people with physical and learning disabilities the chance to dramatically enhance their quality of life. St Bernard’s School is the 21st school to benefit from the partnership between the Lord’s Taverners and BT since they joined forces in ... Read More »

BT and Join In support equestrian club

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On Saturday (31 October), BT and charity Join In will be presenting a Riding for the Disabled equestrian club with a cheque for £1,000 to help improve their facilities and grow their club Greater Manchester RDA are a community equestrian club that relies on the commitment and dedication of volunteers in order to support its riders and members. The group ... Read More »

Disabled Access Day 2016 – save the date!

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 Disabled Access Day, the annual national initiative created to raise awareness of the importance of disabled access, is back for its second year on 12th March 2016. The event aims to encourage disabled people, their friends and families to visit somewhere new and over 50 venues across the UK, including Westminster Abbey, Tate Modern and The Scottish Parliament, have already ... Read More »

BT develops the next generation of Paralympic talent with two new athletes joining its Ambassador team

Jonnie PeacockJonathan Peacock, MBE is an English amputee and sprint runner. He won gold at the 2012 Paralympic Games in the T44 men's 100 metres event.At the age of five, Jonnie contracted meningitis resulting in the disease killing the tissues of his right leg, which was then was amputated just below the knee. Wanting to play football, he was directed to a Paralympic sports talent day when he asked about disability sport at the hospital that fitted his prosthetic leg. Peacock refers to his stump as his 'sausage leg'Hannah CockroftHannah Lucy Cockroft is a British wheelchair athlete specialising in sprint distances in the T34 classification. She holds the Paralympic and world records for both the 100 metres T34 and 200 metres T34. She won two Gold medals at the 2012 Paralympic Games. Hannah was born with Cerebral Palsy. Hannah attended a BPA talent day at Loughborough University in October 2007. It was there she was given her first opportunity to try an elite-racing chair by Dr Ian Thompson, husband of former wheelchair racer Tanni Grey-Thompson.Julie RogersJulie, 16 years old, was one of the youngest participants in the 2012 Summer Paralympics representing Great Britain in the sitting volleyball team.  Since London 2012, Julie has changed her attention to athletics where she has become one of the fastest female Paralympic sprinters in the UK. In 2014, Rogers' fastest time as a sprinter was 5th in the world rankings for that year. Julie is a T42 athlete (single leg amputee). Sophie was born with a congenital disorder and had an operation to shorten her leg at the age of five in order to be able to use an above-the-knee prosthetic limb.Ben RowlingsBen is 18 years old and has Spastic Diplega Cerebral Palsy, which affects all four of his limbs. He’s a wheelchair-racing athlete, competing in T34 class. Ben won a Bronze medal in the 2014 European Championships and is the current British record holder over 3 distances. Ben is part of the Team GB World Class Performance

    BT today demonstrated its commitment to disability sport and the development of the next generation of Paralympic talent with the appointment of two new athletes to its ambassador team, Julie Rogers and Ben Rowlings. Julie and Ben were unveiled as the latest BT Ambassadors at a mentoring session at Loughborough’s High Performance Athletics Centre with Paralympic Gold medallists ... Read More »

Oscar Pistorius dropped by sponsors

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Oscar Pistorious was estimated to receive endorsements worth more than $2m a year. Two days ago, his agent assured the media that these sponsorships were safe. Now it’s being reported that Oakley has cancelled its contract with Pistorius and Nike has “no further plans” to use him in advertisements. Read More »