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By National Paralympic Heritage Trust
The development of a range of exciting learning resources to enhance the visitor experience to the new Heritage Centre, telling the amazing story of the Paralympic movement at its birthplace in Bucks.
Pledges will only be charged if the project hits its funding goal of £14,724 by 13 Apr 2019
By spring 2019 there will be a brand new Paralympic Heritage Centre of 54sqm situated within Stoke Mandeville Stadium, close to the entrance and café. It will tell the story of Paralympic movement starting with its pioneer Dr Guttmann, followed by a timeline, the technical development of sports wheelchairs, celebrations and ceremonies and an area devoted to changing displays selected by the public from our growing collections. To enhance the visitor experience we wish to purchase a range of items and develop a range of activities that will enable our public to learn more and leave with a level of understanding about what makes a good inclusive society. We aim to make everything accessible, meeting a wide range of needs . Volunteers will be recruited to support this area of activity including the building of relationships with many communities, local schools, deaf and disabled groups.
What we'll deliver:
Why it's a great idea:
The Paralympic Movement is a story with unique British involvement; there is nothing comparable to it. As well as showing how disability sport has developed it also captures and tells the story of the prowess, courage and endeavour of hundreds of individual athletes over its 65-year history. It starts with the story of Dr Ludwig Guttmann, a German Jewish refugee, his success in keeping spinally injured people not only alive but also fit and active shows that one man can literally ‘change the world’. The athletes within the story are powerful and inspiring role models for people from all walks of life. They also provide particular resonance for the ten million disabled people in the UK who have very few ‘celebrity’ or ‘historical’ role models to refer to. The UK has continued to play a key leadership role in the development of the Paralympic movement, However, further attitudinal shift is still required with disabled people still experiencing societal barriers and discrimination.
Steps to get it done:
The interest from the general public in Britain in the Paralympic Games has grown enormously since London 2012 and engendered an interest in sports heritage. The national Cultural Olympiad project, ‘Our Sporting Life’, of which Stoke Mandeville was a part, included over one hundred exhibitions attracting over a million visitors in the run up to 2012. This, alongside the outcome of our extensive audience development work inspires confidence that an audience is ready and waiting to hear this story. Local pride has generated interest in the history of the Paralympic movement in and around the area where it began in Buckinghamshire and, evidenced through several local Cultural Olympiad projects involving the public and many local schools with the story, alongside on going audience development research in 2015-2018. The National Paralympic Heritage Trust was incorporated as a company limited by guarantee and registered with the Charity Commissioners as a Charity in July 2015.
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Location Aylesbury
About the space
Stoke Mandeville Parish is on the edge of Aylesbury, it is a built up urban area. It is close to several major schools and the home of Stoke Mandeville Stadium, a fully accessible sports centre that hosts national and international disability sport events
Council
Aylesbury Vale District Council
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Thank you for your support. Your pledges as well as a whopping £5,000 from AVDC mean we have raised 39% of our target. We need your help once more, we can only claim the funds raised if we reach our fundraising target. Please continue to share the project with your friends, family and colleagues and help us reach our target. 62 days to go!!!
Whoop, 30 people have pledged since fundraising began!
Whoop, 20 people have pledged since fundraising began!
Thank you to everyone beginning to respond, its great to wake up to this on a snowy morning. Did you know that today is the birthday of the start of the National Spinal Injuries Unit at Stoke Mandeville, little did the WWII Office know what it was creating was going to go way beyond medical treatment.
Whoop, 10 people have pledged since fundraising began!
How will the money be spent?Total £14,724
Costs Breakdown
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Overfunding
This project is enabled for overfunding. If the project hits its funding goal before the end of the campaign period, any extra funds raised will be spent (in order of priority) on: 1. Increase our capacity to outreach to schools and community groups 2. Contract more Paralympian's to delivery assemblies and workshop 3. Provide more opportunity to collect and record local stories to add to the collection and archive 4. To research the stories behind the items in the collections especially the models from the London 2012 Paralympic opening ceremony.
Total £14,724
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Offer somethingThe National Paralympic Heritage Trust (NPHT) was established in July 2015 to ‘enlighten and inspire future generations by celebrating, cherishing and bringing the Paralympic Heritage and its stories of human endeavour to life’.
The Paralympic Movement is a story with unique British involvement. It not only shows how disability sport developed but captures the prowess, courage and endeavour of hundreds of individuals beginning with Professor Sir Ludwig Guttmann, a German Jewish refugee working in Stoke Mandeville from 1943. Guttmann’s holistic approach to treating spinal injury patients kept them alive, fit, active and ultimately, in his words ‘tax payers’. It shows how one man can literally ‘change the world’, as his medical practice became internationally renowned.
The athletes provide inspiring role models for all people, and have a particular resonance for the ten million disabled people in the UK who have few celebrity or historic role models to emulate. The UK has continued to play a key leadership role in the development of the Paralympic Movement, reflected in phenomenal successes since London 2012, in Sochi, Rio and Pyeongchang.
Without the NPHT the heritage was at risk, being scattered and stored inappropriately with the potential to be lost. It is an internationally unique collection with the ability to inspire and break down barriers to disability, as well as feed growing public and academic interest. Finally it is a wonderful story for which the
British Public and all involved in it should be rightfully proud.
Project Delivery Manager: National Paralympic Heritage Trust The Project Delivery Manager takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
Contractor: Mather & Co The team responsible for building or installing the project.
