UK Deaf Sport
UK Deaf Sport is the leading organisation for deaf sports in the UK.
The charity's vision is Every Deaf Person Active and Inspired by Sports and Physical Activity.
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UK Deaf Sport provides support, raises awareness and campaigns for deaf people, ensuring equal opportunities in sport and physical activity. Its mission is for more deaf people to participate in sports throughout their lives and more deaf athletes to perform on the world stage.
Destination Deaflympics, which was funded by 3i, was UK Deaf Sport’s first Youth Engagement programme. It aimed to inspire deaf children aged 8 to 16 to be active, as well as to raise awareness of the Deaflympics, DeaflympicsGB and other deaf sports and athletes.
The objective of the programme was for young people to complete 10 physical activity challenges in the year leading up to the Deaflympics in November 2025.
The programme was a great success, reaching over 3,000 deaf children across 124 settings, inlcuding all 19 UK deaf schools and over 85 deaf resource bases. The programme also delivered inclusion training to 13 providers, received a number of applications for 'Have a Go Day' funding and partnered with 5 sports organisations to grow deaf participation.
Destination Deaflympics represents the first steps on UK Deaf Sport’s journey to engaging directly at grass roots’ level, with young people. It’s just the beginning!
To learn more, visit Destination Deaflympics.
Sport and physical activity in school is very important as our children travel in from all over London. They use public transport or taxis every day and don’t walk, run or cycle to school. It’s therefore important we include as much physical activity in our curriculum as possible.