Smile through Sport

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Tell us about your organisation:

Smile Through Sport was founded to provide the opportunity for disabled people of all ages across the North East to access high quality sport and physical activity. In order to allow us to do this we provide events, sessions and activities in which disabled people can take part in. Our charity support other organisations and individuals by providing awareness and sport training courses. 

The most important thing for us is that you have fun taking part in our sessions.  Level of ability or previous experience is not an important factor.  We aim to ensure you come out of your time with us having had fun. 

Tell us why being a Haref Ally is important for you and your organisation:

Becoming a Haref Ally is really important to us as we want to continue to provide opportunities for every part of the community. We have read about the Haref Ally scheme and all the good work it does alongside its great reputation. We feel by working with the scheme we can access more people who may not have heard of us before and help us to provide opportunities to these groups and people. 

Tell us about anything that you or your organisation has done to improve how you work with ethnically marginalised communities:

As we work solely in disability sport and activity we work with quite a lot of marginalised communities, though not always on the basis of ethnicity. By joining the Haref Ally scheme we hope we can learn and develop sessions and opportunities that encourage ethnically marginalised communities and their members with disabilities to take part in the sessions that we do. 

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