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Disability sport
We are dedicated to providing a wide range of disability sports across the whole of the city and offer an ever-expanding programme of activities.
Working in partnership with local sport clubs, we are continually helping them to develop their clubs to become more inclusive.
We are also working with Sports and Leisure Management Limited (SLM) to develop disability sport across all leisure centre sites.
Activities and events
There are a range of activities and events running in Bristol, please visit our events database for the latest activities.
Other activities include:
Ability football sessions
- When: Sunday mornings
- Age 11 to15: 9am to 10am
- Age 16 plus: 10am to 11am
- Venue: Filton College WISE Campus
- Cost: £4.50 per session
- Tel: Jay Lee 01454 863 852
Disability athletics
- When: Mondays, 5.30pm to 7.30pm (term time only)
- Venue: Filton College WISE campus
- Age: 7 to 15 and 16 plus
- Cost: £4 per session
- Tel: 07768 256 645
- Email: andrea.lock@filton.ac.uk
Inclusive family swim sessions
- When: Sunday afternoons, 4pm to 5pm
- Venue: Henbury Leisure Centre
- Age: All ages
- Cost: £2 (adults) with an Everyone Active Card. Please ask at reception for details.
- Tel: 0117 353 2555
Multi sports club - Grange School
- When: Wednesdays, 5.30pm to 7pm
- Venue: Grange School, Tower Road North, Warmley
- Age: 7 to 14 (key stage 2 and 3)
- Cost: £3 per session (payment in seven week blocks)
- Tel: 01454 865 821
- Email: joanne.iles@southglos.gov.uk
Multi sports club - St Pauls
- When: Saturdays, 1pm - 2.30pm
- Venue: St Paul's Community Sports Academy
- Age: 5 to15
- Cost: £2.50 per session
- Tel: 0117 377 3406
- Email: dawnslade@slm-ltd.co.uk
Tag rugby- ability rugby sessions
- When: Sundays, 10.30am to11.30am
- Venue: North Bristol Rugby Club, Oaklands, Gloucester Road, Almondsbury
- Age: 6 plus
- Cost: £30 per season
- Tel: Dave Harris 07771 902 214
- Email: arris@talktalk.net
Tennis for people with learning difficulties
- When: Fridays, 11am to 12pm
- Venue: David Lloyd Health and Fitness Club, Westbury-on-Trym
- Age: 16 plus
- Cost: £2 per session
- Tel: Ben Andrews 07824 382 281
Local disability club information
There are many opportunities for disabled people to participate in sport across the city.
Buds and Suds
Bristol Union and South Gloucestershire Union of Disability Sport (BUDS and SUDS) has been set up to promote sporting opportunities for all disabled people in Bristol and South Gloucestershire. Please visit the BUDS and SUDS website for up to date activity and contact information.
Disability football clubs
Please download the poster below for contact details of disability football clubs in the Bristol and Gloucestershire area.
Download: Contact list for GFA disability football clubs (pdf, 218 KB)
Wesport disability sport and leisure directory
Wesport produce an annually updated directory of providers of disability sport in Bristol. More information can be found on the Wesport website
Sportability
Sportability, a registered charity, provides sport and challenging pursuits for people with paralysis around the UK . More information can be found at the Sportability website.
Inclusive fitness initiative
The Inclusive Fitness Initiative (IFI) is a Sport England Lottery funded project that supports facilities to become inclusive, catering for the needs of disabled and non disabled people alike.
The scheme concentrates on several areas:
Inclusive facilities
Ensuring that facilities relating to fitness are accessible which includes assessing the journey a customer would take to use the fitness facilities.
We currently have four leisure centres that are IFI accredited:
Inclusive equipment
Ensuring that the majority of disabled people are able to access a full body workout.
Inclusive training
Ensuring that staff understand the needs of disabled people and work within an inclusive nature.
Pool accessibility
Below is a list of council pools providing disability access within Bristol
- 1 disabled changing room containing 4 lockers, shower, toilet and wash basin
- 1 Oxford Dipper hoist
- Accessible ramp to main building
- 1 disabled changing room
- 1 bed
- Improved hoist system to be implemented in 2011
- 1 disabled changing room with radar key access, toilet, sink and shower
- 1 height movable bed with adjustable rail, remote controlled.
- 1 oxford dipper hoist in main pool with removable wheelie chair.
- 1 disabled changing room/shower/toilet - no lift/hoist or bed
- 1 Arjo Otter chair hoist in main pool
- 1 disabled changing room
- 1 bed
- 1 Oxford Dipper at site
- Information to be provided shortly
Contact information
Sports and Health Development
4th Floor, Brunel House
St George Road
Bristol, BS1 5UY
- Email: sport@bristol.gov.uk
- Work: 0117 922 2696
