1. Sport for Vision Impaired People

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

3.  27  NGB  Unique  Non profit – registered charity  Partners – all here!  Tri-partite agreement

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

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

8. . Key 2015-2018 goals include:  Find funds  Appoint Sports Development Officer  Make MayFest the best

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

11.  MayFest is the flagship multi sports weekend for vision impaired people in Ireland ….and beyond  20-22 May 2016 – 250 participants  Your invite – come and join us for MayFest Dynamics – a showcase forum at ChildVision on Friday 20 th May

12.  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

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

14.  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

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

16.  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

17.  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 Twitter @ibsportsireland  Visit us on www.visionsports.iewww.visionsports.ie  Subscribe FREE to our E-NEWS  Call us 085 8500193

18.  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!”

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