Paralympic Heritage learning tools

Funded on
26 Apr 2019

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.

£14,609 Raised of £14,379

59 Backers

101%

Costs

Audio Visual £5,000
Sports Wheelchair parts £3,000
2 iPads £2,000
Activity sheet designs and printing x5 £1,000
Furniture for seating and handling collections £800
Virtual display and audio display £600
Summer Paralympic Sports handling collection £300
Winter Paralympic Sports handling collection £300
Refugee handling collection £200
Makaton software and printer £200
Other + £100

Talking tins £100
Target: (inc. fees) £14,379

http://www.paralympicheritage.org.uk

The 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 Owner: National Paralympic Heritage Trust The Project Owner 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.