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%

Updates

Paralympic Heritage learning tools published their Delivery Report!5 years ago

Paralympic Heritage learning tools hit its fundraising target!7 years ago

Brilliant news, thanks everyone!

7 years ago We've hit our target

55 Donations worth £1,1597 years ago

40 backers!

40 people have backed Paralympic Heritage learning tools!7 years ago

Whoop, 40 people have pledged since fundraising began!

Paralympic Heritage learning tools has reached 50% of its target!7 years ago

National Paralympic Heritage Trust pledged £1,0007 years ago

Paralympic Heritage learning tools has reached 40% of its target!7 years ago

23 Days to go. Help us reach our target!7 years ago

Hear from Vicky Hope-Walker the Project Manager at the National Paralympic Heritage Trust. Help us spread the word. https://youtu.be/LISPq6rluSY

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.7 years ago

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!!!

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.