Sport for Vision Impaired People

 Every single vision impaired person, who wishes, should be able to participate in the sports, leisure and social activities of their choice

 27  NGB  Unique  Non profit – registered charity  Partners – all here!  Tri-partite agreement

 Board of Directors (10)  1 part-time Executive Officer  Standing/event sub-coms  Volunteers

 Catering for 2,000 p.a.  Current social media following 1,200  2016 paid membership target 400

. Key goals include:  Find funds  Appoint Sports Development Officer  Make MayFest the best

 We desperately need a Sports Development & Liaison Officer  To criss-cross country  To inform  To promote  To provide

 MayFest is the flagship multi sports weekend for vision impaired people in Ireland ….and beyond  May 2016 – 250 participants  Your invite – come and join us for MayFest Dynamics – a showcase forum at ChildVision on Friday 20 th May

 Vision impaired people participate in almost all sports  2 categories: no vision and low vision  Low visionaries avoid high contact and/or fast ball sports e.g. hurling, boxing and lawn tennis  Low visionaries seek few sport adaptions  No visionaries seek high sport adaptions but do participate in sports with NO adaptions

 Sports unique to blind/blindfolded people include:  Blind Football  Goalball  Showdown

 Popular sports adapted for no visionaries include: > Archery > Athletics > Chess > Cycling > Futsal  Golf > Judo > Lawn Bowls > Sailing > Rowing  Swimming > Table Cricket > Tennis > Tenpin bowling > Water skiing

 Athletics  Blind Golf  Blind Football  Chess  Futsal  Judo  Swimming  Tandem cycling  Walking

 Picture this…  Knock knock  “Who’s there?”  “ I’m vision impaired and I wanna, walk, run, cycle, swim, play games!”  Answer: seek out local community resources, keep it country and open doors with integration key.  Some VIP clusters exist for specific sports or for socialising e.g. tandem cycling, walking

 Vision Sports is your conduit  We can’t do a nationwide tour right now  Visit us at MayFest, 20 May, ChildVision  Follow us on Facebook “Vision Sports Ireland”  Follow us on  Visit us on  Subscribe FREE to our E-NEWS  Call us

 Tell ‘em where ya found us  Tell ‘em about the sports  Tell ‘em try MayFest  Tell ‘em the sky’s not the limit –  Tell ‘em to go to space – cyber space – and find us!  “United we stand, divided we fall, c’mon people now let’s get on the ball and work together!”

We stride, we kick, we pedal, we push, we punch above our weight!