FitFlop Sponsors Special Olympics GB
FitFlop has been proud corporate partner of Special Olympics Great Britain since 2008 and has contributed greatly to boost the awareness of the charity's Unified Football programme.
Special Olympics Great Britain is the major provider of sporting opportunities for people with a learning disability and provides equality of opportunity for all their athletes regardless of ability or degree of disability.
For more information click here to visit the Special Olympics Great Britain website
Winners of the first Unified Football National
Tournament
Special Olympics Great Britain Transforming Lives through Sport
Special Olympics Great Britain offers year-round sports training and competition for adults and children with learning disabilities in England, Scotland and Wales.
As a UK registered charity, Special Olympics GB encourages every individual to become more self-confident, while improving their fitness, health and well-being by taking part, training and competing in 23 Olympic-type sports.
Although commonly mistaken for the Paralympics, Special Olympics and Paralympics are two separate organisations. Special Olympics is recognised as the third member of the Olympic family, but it is not just a sporting event — it's a way of life for all people with learning disabilities between the ages of 6 and 80.
Some things you might like to know:
- There are around 1.2 million adults and children in the UK with learning disabilities and more than 200 babies with these disabilities are born every week.
- Special Olympics Great Britain offers a wide range of sports from athletics to gymnastics and tennis to swimming and football.
- The charity has a busy calendar of local, regional, national, and international sport events happening throughout the year. These competitions are open to the public.
- 46 Special Olympics GB athletes represented their country at the Special Olympics European Summer Games held in September 2010 in Warsaw. The team won an impressive 88 medials, including 39 golds.
- 2011 is the year of the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Athens and Special Olympics GB will send a team of 152 athletes who will compete in 18 different sports.
Special Olympics Great Britain is passionate about the power to transform the lives of people with learning disabilities through sport. It currently has over 130 clubs around the country delivering high quality sport coaching and competition opportunities.
Their main goal is to grow the programme from 8,000 athletes to 12,000 and from 2,600 volunteers to 4,000 by 2013.
