Project details
Burnley FC – Danny Ings Disability Sport Project
The Danny Ings Disability Sport Projects sits within the Sport strand of Burnley FC in the Community. Its aims and objectives are focused on creating opportunities for people within the communities who possess a disability.
The motivated, dedicated and committed Disability Development team work endlessly daily to ensure that these aims and objectives are achieved, with assistance from their majority funders. Currently an estimated 22% of the population in Burnley have a disability, with these people often facing significant exclusion creating vast difficulty when attempting to integrate into society.
Burnley FC in the Community feel that everybody deserves the right to access opportunities and overcome barriers to participate in sport, despite any given disability or impairment. This notion led to the birth of the Danny Ings Disability Sport Project.
Presently the project boasts five key strands: Competitive Sport, Recreational Sport, SEN/Mainstream School Sport, Disability Awareness and Disability Access. Each strand operates by creating positive environments for people with disabilities to develop both physically and socially, slowly building their capacity to integrate into society and allowing them to overcome preconceived misconceptions.
BitC passionately feel that sport can be used as the perfect tool to achieve this and, if anything, accelerate the process. The strands are all specifically tailored to each area’s needs, which allows us to create a bespoke provision that is made available to those within our community with a disability.
